IOM

IOM

Established in 1951, IOM is the leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration and works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners.

The organization counts with 127 member states, 17 holding observers status and offices in 100 countries.

The IOM is dedicated to the promoting of human migration to the benifit of all.

It works to hel ensure the human mangement of migration, to promote international cooperation on mifran issues, to assist in the search of practical solution to mifration problems and to provide humanitarian assitance to migrant in need, including refugees and internally displace people.

IOM works in the 4 broad areas of migration management:

• Migration and development
• Facilitating migration
• Regulating migration
• Forced migration

IOM activities:

• The promotion of internation migration law
• Policy debate and guidance
• Protection of migrants' rights
• Migration health and the gender dimension of migration

A seminar about the role that of women in the promotion of the multicultural identities. 

Organize by the OIM and the Islamic organization for educating, science and culture (ISESCO) with the support of the Roman’s council, it congregates representatives of women association, and people in charge of the adoption of politics to discuss the role that women develops in the promotion of the cultural diversity.  This seminar looks to promote the cultural diversity in the different countries where the Islamic women migrate, focusing in their role and what they can do to get a better perception of themselves. They also fight against racism, and discrimination because religion motives.

In December of 2005, with the support about ISESCO, the IOM and the minister in charge of the Morocco community abroad, organized a international conference en morocco about the “migration and religion in a globalize world”

The IOM signed and cooperation agreement with the ISESCO in December of 2003.

IN COLOMBIA

 Offices of the IOM in Colombia.

IOM Training for government employees, in identification and response against violence for gender reasons.

The IOM in Colombia will make a formation for government employees about violence against women, how to identify it, affront it and offer assistance to the victims.

The training will last 3 months and it will be in Cartagena. In 2009, they were 1.838 reported cases of violence against women and child in the families, and 448 cases of sexual violence.

Other challenges include the fighting  the discrimination and violence against migrant women that run away from the conflict of the illegal armed groups, the social and economic vulnerability of the afro-Colombian  community and the sex tourism.

Marcelo Pisani, chief of the Colombian IOM mission says: «the IOM tries hard for the inclusion of the gender in all its activities. With the acquire knowledge of this formation the institutions in Cartagena could offer a better assistance to the women that are victims of violence because of its gender».

 “Human trafficking”

In Colombia this phenomenon happens for ends like sexual exploitation of adults, sexual commercial exploitation of girls, boys, and teenagers, and forced child work, in others. Actually, the internal violence that the country faces creates additional manifestation of the practices, such as force recruitment of children and teenagers for the illegal armed groups.

IOM has the next project: “Prevention, assistance and reintegration of victims of the human trafficking”

This project is divided in 4 axis of a same strategy, all with the same end: avoid that more persons become victims of this crime.

1.Reinforcement of the Colombian State to the fight against the traffic

2.Help to the victims of the human traffic

3.Investigations

4.Prevention of the human trafficking, Campaign “No one harm your dreams” 

References (images taken from:)

http://www.oim.org.co/Publicaciones/tabid/74/smid/522/ArticleID/365/reftab/62/t/Desplazamiento-y-Pobreza---Informe-Especial/language/es-CO/Default.aspx

http://www.tunisiaonlinenews.com/tunisia-signs-migration-agreement-with-iom/

Bibliography:

http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/media/press-briefing-notes/pbnEU/cache/offonce/lang/es?entryId=15100

http://oim.org.co/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=IOPI4sD1MD8%3D&tabid=124&mid=474&language=es-CO

http://www.acnur.org/biblioteca/pdf/5575.pdf