World: COVID-19 and the Rights of Older People in Developing Countries, December 2020 11 December, 2020 - 12:10
Countries: Ethiopia, Iraq, Kenya, Lebanon, Moldova, Mozambique, South Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, United Republic of Tanzania, World Source: Dorcas Aid International
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The COVID-19 pandemic and in fact all crises – acute or prolonged – remind us that human rights need to be central in all recovery and development efforts. The Sustainable Development Goals will only be achieved if we are able to create equal opportunities for all, address failures exposed and exploited by COVID-19, and apply human rights standards to tackle entrenched, systematic, and intergenerational inequalities, exclusion and discrimination.
Movement Assistance
Over the past 70 years, IOM has facilitated the dignified and safe transportation of millions of migrants around the globe. In 2019, IOM provided movement assistance to more than 225,000 people in 169 countries.
Movement assistance encompasses all resettlement and other forms of humanitarian admission; evacuations of vulnerable migrants, internally displaced persons and others; voluntary relocation, return and repatriation; and family reunification, as well as efforts for counter-trafficking and the protection of stranded migrants. Individuals and families are also assisted by IOM to return to their homes, relocate to safety, reunite with family members and migrate towards new opportunities.
Beyond transportation, IOM provides a range of health and integration support integral to the movement process – such as but not limited to case management and facilitating selection missions, pre-migration health activities and medical escorts during travel, provision of
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