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US Government-Funded IOM Clinics to Provide Primary Health Care for Sri Lanka's Displaced
Sri Lanka - IOM engineers have completed the first of ten primary health care centres at the rapidly expanding Menik Farm displacement camp in Vavuniya, the government-controlled district southwest of Mullaitivu, where fighting between the government and LTTE Tamil Tigers continues.
Finding Home
Six months ago, when I agreed to travel to Nepal to work on a documentary about refugees from Bhutan, I truly had no idea what I was getting myself into. I had recently escaped the imaginary shackles of life in Los Angeles and had entered into what I was optimistically referring to as a "state of listening." » More
Another 36 Trafficked Children Rescued by IOM and its Partners
Since 2002, IOM has rescued 684 children who had been trafficked to work with fishermen in Ghana, West Africa. The children, trafficked for forced or bonded labour into fishing communities in Kete-Krachi and Yeji along the shores of Ghana's Lake Volta had been sold for little money by impoverished parents in the belief that the children would be adequately fed, educated and taught a useful trade. » More
Beware of fraudulent offers of migration assistance in the internet or email marketing.
Individuals considering migrating for whatever purpose or destination should take extreme caution in dealing with internet offers or email marketing in light of recent surge in fraudulent schemes. These schemes seek to extract money from migrants by claiming their programme is under the auspices of the destination country, lawyers’ associations, IOM, the United Nations or other humanitarian organizations.
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