Seminar on gender-sensitive labour migration policies, Brdo, Slovenia, 16-17 February 2009
When
16 February 2009 (All day)
(OSCE/Lubomir Kotek)The Dushanbe OSCE-IOM Information Center for Labour Migrants answers to a real need in Tajikistan, where migration is the only option for several hundred thousand workers to sustain their families. (OSCE/Lubomir Kotek) Photo details
The event aimed to raise awareness of the relevance of including a gender aspect in migration policy, and looked at how labour migration policies can be made more gender-sensitive. It expanded regional dialogue, consultation and co-operation.
Under the auspices of the Slovenian Foreign Ministry and the OSCE Secretariat, the seminar was held on 16-17 February 2009, in Brdo, near Ljubljana, Slovenia, and has been conducted in English and Russian.
The project is carried out in partnership between the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, the Office of the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings and the Gender Section of the OSCE Secretariat.