IOM NEWS RELEASE: International Women's Day, 8 March 2010
Women are still not offered the same opportunities for legal migration as their male counter-parts and are therefore still often disproportionately affected by risks arising from mobility.
“As we celebrate International Women’s Day, we need to reaffirm our commitment to women migrants and their empowerment. Our priority is to ensure that their migration experience is positive and a force for development,” says the IOM Deputy Director General Ambassador Thompson.
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IOM Helsinki Swedish Helplines become Toll-free
As of February 2010, the IOM Helsinki helplines for returnees from Sweden to Iraq and Afghanistan have become toll-free and can be contacted from telephones in Sweden without any charges to the caller's telephone. The telephone lines have been made toll-free in order to facilitate the access to information on voluntary return and reintegration assistance available to returnees from Sweden.
The IOM Helsinki Afghan Helpline can be contacted on the Swedish number 020 170 1955. The IOM Helsinki Sweden-Iraq Helpline can be contacted on number 020 170 1960.
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IOM publishes book on Migration for Development in Africa: the Health Dimension
IOM Helsinki has published the book
Migration for Development in the Horn of Africa - Health expertise from the Somali diaspora in Finland.
Directed at a diverse audience of policymakers and practitioners, as well as the larger public interested in contemporary transnational issues, this book captures the context in Finland and Somalia which has led to the very first MIDA (Migration for Development in Africa) project for Somalia.
Contributors from a variety of fields and backgrounds discuss, among others, the links between migration and development, the migration profile of Somalia and prevailing needs of the Somali health sector.
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IOM and UNDP team up to bring back Somali Diaspora expertise
The United Nations Development Programme Somalia (UNDP Somalia) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have launched a joint initiative to tap into key technical expertise among the Somali diaspora in a bid to help rebuild key governance foundations in parts of the country.
The Qualified Expatriate Somali Technical Support – Migration for Development in Africa (QUESTS-MIDA) project targets Somalis with professional expertise in policy and legislation, human resources management, and public financial management living in North America, the UK and the Nordic countries. Through the project, these experts will be engaged in short-term capacity-building placements in Somalia, for an average period of six months to provide on-the-job peer-to-peer training in their respective fields.
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