Media Monitoring Highlights
UN News reported that IOM is overseeing the dredging of more than nine kilometres of abandoned canals, which will then be renovated, in the Cox’s Bazar area, home to around 700,000 Rohingya refugees who have fled violence in northern Myanmar. The report quoted IOM’s Damon Elsworth.
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UN News reported that reflecting the reality of life on the ground for millions of migrants fleeing their homes must form the basis of the upcoming Global Compact for Migration. The report quoted IOM’s William Lacy Swing.
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France 24 reported that sixteen members of a mostly female network of Nigerian human traffickers operating forced prostitution rings in France went on trial last week in Paris, facing their accusers as the trafficked women testified to being lied to, beaten and raped. The report cited IOM figures.
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Voice of America reported that two boats carrying Rohingya refugees from Myanmar’s Rakhine State have landed in the Indonesian province of Aceh. The report quoted IOM’s Mariam Khokhar and Paul Dillon.
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Africa News and Reuters reported that Doctors without Borders (MSF) is concerned about the fate of hundreds of migrants and refugees, including women and children being held in a dangerously overcrowded detention centre in Libya. The report noted that IOM has initiated a process of “voluntary humanitarian return” for some detainees.