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The Council of Europe, through its EUR-OPA Major Hazards Agreement, is promoting improvements in emergency planning, disaster response and risk mitigation for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. EUR-OPA works in particular to:
The IFRC has engaged in a 45-month project, co-funded by the European Union (EU) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to promote the rights of migrants in targeted countries, migration corridors and regions through a globally coordinated civil society action,
The Council of Europe’s European and Mediterranean Major Hazards Agreement (EUR-OPA) and Intercultural cities programme (ICC) have joined their expertise to organise a workshop which explored the access and participation of migrants, refugees and asylums seekers to disaster prevention...
UNODC held a Regional Workshop on the identification, protection and assistance of victims of trafficking in persons among refugees and displaced persons.
During the conflict in Lebanon in 2006, a trilingual booklet in Sinhalese, Amharic and Tagalog was produced by the Ministry of Justice and Caritas Lebanon, which warned domestic workers about possible traffickers as they tried to leave the country.
As the Israel-Lebanon conflict intensified in July 2006, the Government of India asked the Indian Armed Forces to help evacuate its citizens at risk from the conflict zone. Of the over 10,000 Indian nationals in Lebanon, almost 2,000 were at risk.
At the time of the the Israel-Lebanon conflict in 2006, the Egyptian government estimated the number of Egyptian nationals working and living in Lebanon at around 300,000. The Egyptian embassies in Beirut and Damascus established a hotline and a “crises-management group”.
Operation Ramp is the name given to an Australian Defense Force (ADF) operation to support the evacuation of over 5,300 Australians and over 1,300 foreign nationals from the Lebanese ports of Beirut and Tyre during the 2006 Lebanon War.
Lebanese citizens who had been living in Syria but fled as a result of the conflict are among those hardest hit by the crisis.
This guide provides an overview of the work of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with migrant domestic workers (MDWs) in Lebanon. It traces the history of NGO involvement with MDWs since the early 1980s to explore the approaches underlying NGO interventions and partnerships.