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A passerby reads Olenka's sad story | IOM Austria - Regional Office

“We lived in a cold house and my younger sister and I slept on an old blanket instead of a bed. Mother went away to earn money leaving us with our stepfather. He soon bought another woman home and they drove us onto the street to beg.

“We gave them the money we collected and they spent it on alcohol. Our stepfather also warned us that if we told our mother about this, he would beat us. But they beat us all the time anyway.”

Targeted Initiative for Georgia (TIG) Project “Support Reintegration of Georgian Returning Migrants and the Implementation of the EU-Georgia Readmission Agreement”

Date of publication: 
Jan 01, 2012
The Targeted Initiative for Georgia (TIG) project “Support reintegration of Georgian returning migrants and the implementation of the EU-Georgia readmission agreement” is being implemented with financial assistance from the European Union as a leading project of the cooperation betweenGeorgia and EU Member States defined in the Mobility Partnership Declaration signed in November 2009.

Reintegration Assistance Referral Guide

Date of publication: 
May 05, 2017
IOM has produced the 2017 reintegration assistance referral guide in close cooperation with its partners in the governmental and non-governmental sectors. This publication shall serve returning migrants with substantial information on the conditions that they can expect when coming back to their native Georgia and thus help them in getting back on their feet without undue complications.

Migration in Georgia: A Country Profile 2008

Date of publication: 
Jan 01, 2008
“Migration in Georgia: A Country Profile 2008” is part of a series of migration profiles produced by IOM Budapest within the “Black Sea Consultative Process on Migration Management” project, funded from IOM’s 1035 Facility. Georgia is primarily a country of origin of migrants with flows directed mainly towards the Russian Federation, United States, Greece, Germany, Turkey, Austria, and a number of other EU member states.

Needs Assessment: Counter-trafficking Response in the Republic of Georgia

Date of publication: 
Jan 01, 2017
Over the last half decade, IOM has implemented many counter-trafficking actions in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Although there have been major improvements in efforts to combat trafficking in human beings (THB) within these countries, as the modes of operation of traffickers continue to evolve, States need to ensure that interventions continue to address the needs of victims on the ground while at the same time focusing on targeted capacity-building of law enforcement.

Georgia

Since its establishment in 1993, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Mission to Georgia has fostered an effective partnership with the Government of Georgia to support the development of national migration related management systems, nurture civil society development, provide diverse services for various groups of migrants and raise public awareness and education initiatives on migration-sensitive issues.