Migrants and the IOM

Due to the process of globalization, it is pretty easy to travel from one country through another without many restrictions and to make a life in every part of the world, that’s why migration has increased a lot in the last two decades, and has became a really big problem for many developed countries.

Institutions like the International organization for migration (IOM) are extremely important to help these migrants to have rights and better life conditions, specially for the female migrants that are the most affected one because of the gender discrimination
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The IOM is an institution that works to help ensure the orderly and humane management of migration, to promote international cooperation on migration issues, to assist in the search for practical solutions to migration problems and to provide humanitarian assistance to migrants in need, including refugees and internally displaced people (Taken from http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/about-iom/lang/en)
For the IOM it’s very important that female migrants have the better conditions and that’s why they have a lot of campaigns to protect the rights of the women migrants and the most important thing to capacitate them to make a better job in what they do an example of this campaigns are:

- In siria for example the IOM gives the female migrants short-term assistance to reduce their vulnerability to trafficking and exploitation.

- In Italy there is a campaign called "Migrant Women for Development in Africa" (WMIDA), which support West African women migrants interested in using their remittances to establish small or medium enterprises in their countries of origin through joint ventures with Italian partners and host communities. (Taken from http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/migration-development/pid/2027)

- In Costa rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua the IOM have a campaign called "No More Human Trafficking" or "No más trata de personas", which has the propose of fighting against the human trafficking in Central America and Mexico.

Here is a pretty interesting video that describes the situation of migrants in Thailand: