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BRAMA, October 5, 2002, 11:00am ET


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UNITED STATES - New Funding for Counter Trafficking Activities - IOM counter trafficking programmes have received new funding from the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, totalling US$3.6 million for programmes in Belarus, Bulgaria, Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Moldova, Nigeria, Thailand, Romania, Turkey, and Ukraine.

The new funding will allow the IOM office in the Dominican Republic to continue providing return and reintegration assistance to victims and to carry out the information campaign. In El Salvador, a new shelter for victims will be built.

In Ethiopia, IOM will use the funds for trafficking prevention and HIV/AIDS information programmes in schools. In Nigeria, an IOM information campaign will inform potential victims of the dangers of trafficking and HIV/AIDS, and provide reintegration assistance to victims returning to their country. In Ghana, a programme to combat child trafficking will be put in place.

In Asia the IOM programme supporting the reintegration of trafficking victims to Cambodia will continue. In India, reintegration assistance will be provided to returning victims. And in Thailand and Laos, IOM will support anti-trafficking cooperation between the two countries and provide return and reintegration assistance to victims.

In Europe, IOM will support counter trafficking activities in Belarus and Romania. In Romania a shelter for victims will also be opened. IOM's work in Bulgaria will involve the development of an NGO counter-trafficking network that will include safe houses and an information campaign targeted at minors. In Moldova and Ukraine, IOM will continue providing support for the existing shelters. In Turkey the funding will support research on trafficking to Turkey.

KOSOVO - Counter Trafficking Report - The IOM office in Kosovo is launching today the latest situation report of its Return and Reintegration Programme for Victims of Trafficking. The report is based on the true stories of 322 victims that were assisted by IOM Kosovo between February 2000 and September 2002.

The two main components of the report are:

  • Focus on Moldova. Because it is the main source country (among Easter European countries) of trafficking victims to the Balkan region. Moldova is one of the poorest country of Europe. As per IOM and UNDP figures, up to one million people left Moldova in search of employment and better living conditions.
  • A psychological analysis of the trauma suffered by the victims. The traffickers exert an extremely brutal, cruel and manipulative treatment over the victims, physically and psychologically. The use violence, rape, beating, torture, starvation, physical exhaustion, isolation, control and deception to force women to obey their rules is commonplace. The reactions of the victims to this trauma are: fear and shock; disorientation and confusion; despair and withdrawal, passivity and avoidance, ideas of shame and guilt; feelings of unworthiness; feeling of uselessness and helplessness; suspicion and distrust, and suicidal thoughts.

    For more information contact Tamara Osorio, IOM Pristina Tel: 381.38.549.042 TOsorio@iom.ipko.org The full report is available on the IOM Website www.iom.int



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