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ASEAN and IOM Launch Human Trafficking Report
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and IOM today
launched a major report on human trafficking in Cambodia,
Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand.
Prevention and Protection of Victims of Human Trafficking
The Ministry of Women and Children Affairs and the IOM regional
office in Dhaka are today launching a three-year programme to
prevent human trafficking and protect and assist victims of the
crime with livelihood assistance and better prosecute those who
IOM and WFP Join Forces to Help Communities on the Northern Border
IOM and the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) yesterday signed a
long-term cooperation agreement, through the year 2010, to carry
out projects along Ecuador's northern border region, with a focus
on the Federation of Awa Indigenous Communities of Ecuador (FECAE).
Peace Building Programme Benefits Communities in Aceh
More than 100,000 villagers have so far benefited from a
USAID-funded infrastructure and livelihood programme aimed at
promoting peace and reconciliation in Aceh's former
conflict-affected districts of Bener Meriah and Aceh Tengah.
River Nile Opens the Way for Return of Displaced to the South
An IOM operation to provide return assistance along the River Nile
to an initial group of 2,400 internally displaced persons (IDPs)
from camps in Khartoum started this week with a group of 451 IDPs
boarding an IOM-chartered barge in Kosti for a two-week journey to
Repatriation of Congolese Refugees Continues
A third and fourth group of 119 Congolese refugees was airlifted
yesterday out of the northern Mozambican town of Nampula as part of
a joint IOM-UNHCR effort to provide voluntary repatriation
assistance to a group of some 3,500 Congolese refugees who have
Building Bridges to Reintegrate the Displaced
IOM this week released a short series of public information
materials intended to address some of the key information needs
critical to the process of return and reintegration of internally
displaced persons (IDPs) into their communities.
Improved Cross Border Cooperation to Combat Human Trafficking
Law enforcement officers, judges, prosecutors and other officials
from the province of Formosa and from Paraguay are meeting this
week to discuss increased cooperation to combat human trafficking,
improve criminal research and the prosecution of traffickers in the
Migration Policies to Foster Development and Human Rights
The IOM office in Bolivia with the support of the regional Office
in Lima and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is hosting a two-day
seminar ending today in the capital, La Paz, aimed at fostering
increased awareness on migration and on the need to generate public
Enhancing Benefits of Remittances
The Albanian government, together with IOM, the International
Labour Organization (ILO) and other partners has put forward a
draft national action plan on remittances, aimed at enhancing the
development impact of remittances in Albania.
Visit of IOM Director General
IOM’s Director General, Brunson McKinley, today began a
six-day visit to Sudan including North and South Darfur and Juba in
the south.
In addition to reviewing IOM operations in Sudan, the Director
Promoting Food Security in Flood Affected Areas
IOM teams working in Angola’s Eastern Moxico province have
started distributing seed kits to some 2,300 particularly
vulnerable families living in the remote Cazombo district, which
suffered the brunt of last February’s devastating floods.