IOM hosts Media Engagements on Migration
Understand migration and the role migration plays in the country’s development, to encourage evidence-based reporting on different migration issues.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) hosted the Media on Migration in South Africa. The purpose of the engagement was to sensitise them on IOM’s work in South Africa, to create a space to better understand migration and the role migration plays in the country’s development, to encourage evidence-based reporting on different migration issues and establish a mechanism of ongoing information sharing with the media.
Issues discussed during the engagements included projects that IOM is currently implementing, namely: promotion of social cohesion through sports, arts and culture; promotion of inclusive Covid -19 vaccination in South Africa, migration and disability, sexual reproductive health rights (SRHR)- HIV knows no borders, migration health assessment centre, re-settlements and movements and trafficking in persons.
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