IOM Bratislava organized from July to October 2012 various activities and events in the field of foreigner integration, education and awareness-raising of the issues of migration, counter trafficking, research on violence against foreigners in the Slovak Republic and other areas about which you can read more in this newsletter. This issue brings a new section IOM Client Stories including a story about voluntary return assistance to Vietnam and reintegration in a home country and a life story of a refugee woman resettled from a refugee camp in Yemen, whom Slovakia has provided temporary shelter.

Newsletter of the IOM Office in the Slovak Republic, 04/2012

Content of the IOM newsletter 4/2012:

Upcoming events

• Experience a unique Sunday lunch!
• Conference on immigration of international students

Previous activities and events

• Foreigners from more than seven countries used services of the One Stop Shop
• Experts on global and local migration at the EMN seminar
• Preparatory programs and courses for a better integration of foreigners
• IOM has trained in counter trafficking
• Oriental Dance at Festival Devín
• IOM at international conferences
• Working meetings of the European Migration Network
• IOM and migrants on the Diversity Festival in Košice

IOM client stories

• Assistance with a new beginning in Vietnam
• Zahra is waiting for her dream to come true

We offer

• Courses of socio-cultural orientation for foreigners

IOM in media

• News selection about activities of the IOM Bratislava published in the Slovak media from July to September 2012.

If you wish to obtain information regarding our activities, contacts for the responsible IOM teams are available here.

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