Despite their contribution to the worldwide economy development, the migrants are often neglected during conflict situations of, says the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on International Migrants Day, December 18. “We can not deny the fact that the migrants significantly contribute to the social and economic development of the countries where they work and live. Following from this, equal attention must be paid to their safety and welfare,” stated director general of IOM, Brunson McKinley. “Migrants must be helped in a rapid, sure and well-coordinated manner, said McKinley, quoted in a press release of IOM. A number of Governments has already requested from IOM to create an Emergency Evacuation Fund that will allow IOM, governments, UN partners and NGOs to supply vulnerable migrants with food and medical products, temporary shelter, consular assistance and registration that would precede their evacuation. The migrants can also ask for help on their return home, and the provision of psycho-social assistance is very important, especially for those that are traumatized by their experiences. The press release also shows that though the evacuation of the inhabitants in North Lebanon in July and August this year attracted the whole world’s attention, the tens of thousand of workers, migrants caught in this zone, either they came from the countries that were incapable to help its citizens, or they had no means to run using their own forces, did not enjoy great care. The evacuation on humanitarian grounds of over 11,000 migrants from Lebanon – most of them women from Asia and Africa that worked as maid servants – was the latest operation in the history of IOM, which has the aim to help displaced migrants to avoid the situations of conflict. The evacuation on humanitarian grounds from Lebanon, financed by US European Commission, stressed once again the necessity of setting a permanent mechanism that would envisages the provision of assistance for evacuating urgently those migrants, whose countries do not have logistical or financial means to evacuate their citizens. Other recent examples include the evacuation of migrants that went to Jordan from Iraq during the second war in Golf, as well as migrants that ran far from violence erupted in Liberia and Azure Coast, in 2003.