January 2006

CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE

New CT Information Campaign to Launch Next Month Special Focus on Trafficking, Families and Children 2005 Trafficking Rate Expected to Show Increase End of Year Numbers to See Release this Month Media Briefings to Increase Awareness of Trafficking Definitions IOM Lauches Effort to Improve reporting of CT Issue Pakistanis Weathering Winter in Tents Provided by Turkey IOM Tents Delivery Provides Shelter from the Cold Turkey CT Awareness Campaign to Launch in February... Image from upcoming television spot IOM-Turkey next month launches a new public information campaign to raise awareness of counter-trafficking. The centerpiece of the campaign is a 30-second television commercial to be broadcasted on major channels in Turkey. The television advertisment was shot in Moldova, a top trafficking source country for Trafficking. The spot focuses on the toll trafficking takes on families and communities in source countries. It features four Moldovan children speaking in Turkish about mothers who have been trafficked to Turkey. The campaign will highlight an often overlooked fact: Trafficking affects not only victims, but the children, families and communities left behind. A new report on 2005 trafficking trends to be released as part of the campaign found that one in three women trafficked to Turkey are mothers with children. Women with children are often more vulnerable. They need money to feed children because they cannot rely on husbands or family members who are equally poor or out of work. Traffickers take advantage of their situation by recruiting them with false job offers and the promise of money to feed their children. ...As IOM Releases Final Figures on Trafficking in 2005 In tandem with launch of the new information campaign, IOM-Turkey will release a comprehensive report on trafficking tends in Turkey in 2005. The report is expected to show a dramatic increase in the number of individuals identified as trafficked to Turkey. The report is also expected to show that a sizable proportion of individuals trafficked to Turkey are being identified once they return to their home countries by NGOs and other sources. IOM has placed a high-priority throughout the region on identification of trafficked individuals in their home countries. However, the rate of identifications outside of Turkey also highlights the need for a stepped up focus by police and gendarmerie on increasing identification of trafficked persons within Turkey. Trafficked persons are afforded human rights and legal protection under Turkish and international law. Briefing for Media Focuses on Understanding Trafficking Definition A new informational calendar to see wide distribution among media partners this month will focus on increasing understanding of trafficking terminology and definitions. Key phrases and definition are often lost in translation in media reports, for example, the frequent practice of using human smuggling (insan kaçakçılığı) and human trafficking (insan ticareti) as synonyms. For the record, smugglers are paid by consenting migrants to transport them illegally across borders. A person who is trafficked does not consent and is forced by another person into sexual, labor and other forms of exploitation. The “Lost in Translation” calendar will include these and other terms translated from English to Turkish. It will also compliment the information campaign to be launched in early February. Pakistan Eathquake Survivors Weather Winter in Turkish Tents Turkish tents in Pakistan Some 8,000 survivors of the Pakistan earthquake this month are being provided protection from life-threatening winter conditions in tents manufactured by an Ankara-based tent manufacturer. Delivery of the 1650 residential and 200 medical tends was coordinated by IOM-Turkey in cooperation with IOM-Pakistan and airlifted from Turkey by Nato. The tent delivery is part of IOM’s operation “Winter Race” which has provided 10,000 shelters for earthquake survivors in remote Pakistani villages above 5,000ft.