HOW ARE THE MIGRANT WOMEN DOING??

These week I would like to understand the IOM and what does the organization to improve conditions of women migrant workers.
But first I would like to know something about the IOM. The organization was established in 1951. Since then the IOM or the international organization for migration is the most important intergovernmental organization in migration matters, a field which is gaining importance and people every day. The IOM also works closely with governamental, intergovernamental and non-governamental partners. Its main concern is to promote humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all. To achieve it, the IOM provides services and advices to governments and migrants. Today the IOM counts with 127 member states, plus than 6700 staff members, 450 field locations and 2000 projects worldwide.
IOM works in the four broad areas of migration management:

Migration and development.
Facilitating migration.
Regulating migration.
Forced migration.

The IOM have many programs to help all these women, and they objective is to take action against the violence and discrimination affecting migrant women and girls. In fact in their web page they have an interesting document call like this. The concern about this topic is that the violence against women is one of the most pervasive global and systemic forms of human rights violation that exist today. But even knowing this, the problem for the women is huge, they don’t encounter benefits from their migration processes, but only violence and discrimination. According to the UN DESA 2009 for some of the 105 million international migrants worldwide, all kinds of violence and discriminations can appear when they are just starting their lives somewhere else
Women usually emigrate because of different situations like discrimination, for example in labor. The IOM has different sad and impressive examples, which I would like to mention.

“When my husband arrived home, he asked me for the residence registration paper. I said I was too tired and that I would get it back the next day. As a result, he swore at me, beat me, burned me with his cigarette and took a knife and threatened to cut me. He kicked me and sprayed me with mosquito killer spray.” (Migrant woman in Viet Nam, in Steibelt/IOM, 2009)

“I was ironing; he came up to me from behind and pushed me to the floor. He raped me. Afterwards he forced me to the kitchen and pulled out a big knife and held it against my chest. He said: ‘If you tell anyone, I will kill you or if I don’t kill you, I will tell the government about you and you will be deported’. So I didn’t say anything, although I felt so bad, I was so scared. Then one day, about a month later he came for me again. But this time, his wife saw, his wife started to fight her husband and then she turned on me. She beat me with a stick and threw a knife at me. I left the house and never went back.” (Ethiopian domestic worker in Saudi Arabia, in IOM, 2006)

“I feel like they’ve taken my smile and I can never have it back. ” (LSHTM/IOM et al., 2006)

After Reading these examples people can feel sad, but thanks to the IOM, these women have a backup which is this organization. The IOM strives to protect women migrants from discrimination and violence.
Everybody knows is really difficult to resolve this problem but at least there are a lot of people who cares for other people and would do what they can t help them have a better way of live.
I recommend you to read the document of the IOM. It is call Taking action against violence and discrimination affecting migrant woman and girls  

BIBLIOGRAPHY
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION. About IOM. Retrieved from: http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/about-iom/lang/ent
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION. Taking action against violence and discrimination affecting migrant woman and girls. Retrieved from: http://www.iom.int/jahia/webdav/site/myjahiasite/shared/shared/mainsite/published_docs/brochures_and_info_sheets/violence_against_migrant_women_factsheet.pdf