News
Reconstruction – A Daunting Challenge
Six months after the devastating earthquake
that struck South Asia on October 8, 2005, the emergency
‘Winter Race" to save lives in Northwest Frontier Province
(NWFP) and Pakistan-Administered Kashmir (PAK) is officially over.
IOM Shares Global Counter-Trafficking Experience at Conference
The University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill's Carolina Women's Center and its partners are this week
hosting a conference titled "Sexual Trafficking: Breaking the
Crisis of Silence".
Eye Care for Tsunami Survivors
A group of 225 opthalmologic nurses and
operating theatre personnel specializing in eye care from hospitals
in seven districts will attend an IOM / Australian Red Cross (ARC)
training workshop in Colombo on Sunday, April 9th.
Human Trafficking Threat to Quake Survivors
An awareness-raising campaign to alert
Pakistanis to human trafficking and the vulnerability of people,
particularly women and children affected by the October 2005
earthquake, was launched yesterday.
Inter American Course on International Migration
The 28th edition of the Inter American
Course on International Migration took place this month in Mar del
Plata, Argentina.
IDP Products a Success at International Trade Fair
Products made by internally displaced
Colombians, former child soldiers and victims of anti personnel
mines and endorsed by IOM, were a great success this week at the
International Trade Fair (Macrorueda de Negocios Agroindustria)
More Help Needed for Displaced Iraqis
Thousands of Iraqis displaced by on-going
conflict in the country are in need of greater and long-term
assistance, according to IOM.
Migration and Human Resources for Health
More than 160 public health officials,
representatives of intergovernmental organizations, NGOs, the
private sector and civil society from 63 countries called for more
investment in human resource development at a two-day IOM seminar
Families Return to Mountain Homes from Muzaffarabad
Khushal and his family of four watch as
their tent, belongings and bags of food are loaded onto an IOM
truck for the short 14-kilometer trip to their home in Dub Gali.
Overlooking Muzaffarabad City from a height of 7,000ft, the village
Sustainable Security Workshop
IOM Italy and the NATO Defense College are
co-organizing a workshop entitled ‘Exit Strategies: Promoting
Sustainable Security' in Rome on Friday 31 March 2006.
Greater Migration and Regional Economic Cooperation in Black Sea Area
Closer cooperation in protecting the human
rights of migrants and the need to address the dangers of irregular
migration are the focus of an agreement being signed today in
Bucharest between the Organization of the Black Sea Economic
Migration Health Book Launch
IOM and the Spanish Foundation, Paulino
Torras Domènech are launching a book today on
‘Migration and Health' on the fringes of an IOM seminar
currently taking place in Geneva on the challenges posed by the
migration of health workers.