The IOM office in Dar el Salaam has launched a nationwide campaign
to inform the general public of the dangers of human trafficking
and to enlist further support from national leaders and public
opinion makers.

As part of the three-month campaign entitled "Uwe sauti Yao" (Be
their voice), Public Services Announcements for TV and radio are
currently being aired on 14 TV and radio stations on mainland
Tanzania and Zanzibar.

Posters, brochures, calendars, stickers, T-shirts and caps are
also being distributed at bus stands and at other high-visibility
areas in all major cities and throughout an extensive network of
youth centres, schools, government and civil society partners and
NGOs.

On Sunday 16 December, a concert bringing together leading
Tanzanian performers, including Banana Zorro, Professor J, Enika,
Muhogo Mchungu and Flora Mbasha, will take place at Ubungo Plaza in
Dar es Salaam.

"We're delighted that this truly unique event has received the
full support Tanzania's most famous hip hop and gospel singers,"
says IOM's Chief of Mission Par Liljert. "Just like the media,
artists have a crucial role to play to ensure people do not fall
prey to ruthless trafficking networks."

Trafficking in Tanzania is both internal and international, but
most cases identified so far are of internal trafficking. Girls and
boys are routinely trafficked from rural areas to urban areas where
they are abused and exploited in domestic worker, commercial
agriculture, fishing and mining industries, and in child
prostitution.

Women and children are also trafficked for sexual or labour
exploitation to neighbouring countries and as far afield as the
Middle East and Europe. Tanzania is also becoming a transit country
for victims of trafficking from the Horn of Africa who are taken to
South Africa.

Over the past two years, IOM Tanzania has assisted more than 120
victims of trafficking, with support of the United States
Department of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration
(PRM).

This campaign is fully supported and funded by the Government of
Tanzania through the National Aids Control Programme.

For more  information, please visit "paragraph-link-no-underline" href="http://www.uwe-sauti-yao.org"
target="_blank" title="">www.uwe-sauti-yao.org

or call

Monika Peruffo

IOM Dar es Salaam

Tel. + 255 786 088519

E-mail "mailto:mperuffo@iom.int">mperuffo@iom.int