Resettlement is a protection tool to meet the specific needs of refugees, it’s a durable solution and a demonstration of international solidarity and responsibility-sharing. It allows many people to begin life anew who would otherwise have neither home nor country to call their own. Annually, IOM supports some 40 States to carry out resettlement, relocation, and humanitarian admissions schemes for refugees and other vulnerable persons. In 2017, around 138,000 persons travelled under IOM auspices through these programmes with significant operations out of Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Afghanistan, Italy, Jordan, Iraq, Kenya, Nepal and Ethiopia.