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On 31 March, an international roundtable on the results of the implementation of the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) in the countries of Central Asia and the Russian Federation took place online and offline.
On 3 March 2021, Rukhshona Qurbonova of IOM Tajikistan participated in the webinar <Migration and Tuberculosis (TB) in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA)> as a panellist. The event was organized by the TB Europe Coalition and Regional Group on Migration and Health in EECA. During the webinar, was reported, and questions and answers followed.
Dushanbe, 29 January 2021. Under the leadership of the Ministry of Labour, Migration and Employment of Population, an inter-ministerial consultation to discuss findings on migration policy in the Republic of Tajikistan under the Migration Governance Indicators (MGI) took place on 29th January at Hilton Hotel in Dushanbe. The event brought together representatives of ministries of Tajikistan and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
On 27 January 2021, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) organized Ministerial Conference of the Almaty Process to discuss solutions to regional challenges posed by the complex dynamics of refugee protection and migration in Central Asia, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bohtar, Khatlon, 27 January 2021. Today, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) jointly with government partner - Migration Service at Oblast Level launched a three-days training on reintegration of returned migrants. The training brought together 17 specialists from Migration Service and civil society members of five districts of Khatlon region.
18 December 2020 - On this International Migrants Day, we reflect on a year in which, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions upon millions of people have experienced the pain of separation from friends and family, the uncertainty of employment and the need to adapt to a new and unfamiliar reality.
These are emotions felt by migrants around the world every day.
Across this challenging year, we have also come to appreciate our dependence on those who are too often invisible within our communities. Migrants have played an outsized role on the frontlines of responding to the crisis – from caring for the sick and elderly to ensuring food supplies during lockdowns – highlighting their broader contributions to societies around the world.
Just as migrants are integral to our societies, they should remain central to our recovery.
We must ensure that migrants, irrespective of their legal status, are included in every country’s pandemic response, particularly in health and vaccination programming. We must reject hate speech and acts of xenophobia. And we must find solutions for those migrants who have been left stranded, without income or legal status, and without means to return home.
On this International Migrants Day, let us seize the opportunity of the recovery from the pandemic to implement the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, reimagine human mobility, enable migrants to reignite economies at home and abroad and build more inclusive and resilient societies.
In December 2019, IOM Tajikistan together with AFEW International (www.afew.org) and AFEW Kyrgyzstan launched the project “Improving migrants’ access to HIV services in Tajikistan”. Aim of this project is to raise awareness among outgoing migrants on safe migration and to promote health seeking behaviour relating Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV through peer networks.
Alisher (name is changed) is one of the activists of the union of the people with disability in Tajikistan. When he left Tajikistan for a job in the Russian Federation several years ago, he never thought that his life would dramatically change. He worked in the construction like thousands of other Tajiks in Russia. But one day, the elevator he used in at the job fell down and Alisher got a spinal injury…