The Promotion of Rights, Capacity Building Measures and Initiatives to Curb Illegal & Temporary Migration including Human Smuggling & Trafficking’ (C-PRISM)
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Pakistan today is faced with a plethora of issues ranging from poverty to corruption, economic imbalance to moderation to religious fundamentalism and intolerance, political instability and crisis to war on terrorism. Pakistan is not only considered a launching pad but is also being used as a transit point for illegal migration and human smuggling and trafficking to Central Asia, the Arab states and Europe.
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ActionAid aims to address the issue of illegal immigration, temporary migrants, human smuggling, human trafficking, and rights of the victims through implementation of a two-year project entitled ‘The Promotion of Rights, Capacity Building Measures and Initiatives to Curb Illegal & Temporary Migration including Human Smuggling & Trafficking’ (C-PRISM).
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The C-PRISM project is funded by the European Commission’s AENEAS Programme for the financial and technical assistance to third-world countries in the field of migration and asylum. Action Aid UK is implementing the C-PRISM project through Action Aid Pakistan partnered with the Basic Education for Awareness Reforms and Empowerment/Basic Education for Afghan Refugees (BEFARe) in Peshawar (NWFP), Quetta (Baluchistan) and Karachi (Sindh) and JAAG Welfare Movement in Rahim Yar Khan (Punjab).
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Objective: The C-PRISM project aims to address issues of illegal migration, temporary migrants, human smuggling and trafficking and migrant rights in Pakistan through building, training and enhancing Community Organizations (COs) to effectively focus on migrant issues in their target communities.
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The project will contribute to bringing about wide-spread awareness on illegal migration, human smuggling & trafficking (IMHST) in Pakistan in lieu of supporting national and international initiatives to prevent and reduce the occurrence. The direct beneficiaries will be approx. 500 COs, 250 senior level members of the law enforcing agencies and relevant decision makers and stakeholders.
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A series of awareness raising workshops will be organized about illegal migration including human trafficking and human smuggling.
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For more information:
Contact
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Ms. Shameela Ahmed
EC AENEAS Expert
ActionAid-Pakistan
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Tel: +92-51-2611614 – 19
Fax: +92-51-2611622 / 2611623