MIGRASYL

News on migration and asylum from around the region - Nouvelles de la région sur les questions de migration et d'asile

Friday, June 12, 2009

[Libya] IOM: Partnership with Libyan Civil Society Assists Detained Migrants

The IOM office in Libya has entered into a key partnership with three leading Libyan non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to provide much-needed humanitarian assistance to undocumented migrants who are currently detained for immigration law violations. This partnership with the World Islamic Call Society (WICS), the International Organization for Peace, Care and Relief (IOPCR) and Al-Wafa, has allowed IOM to provide thousands of clothing items and some 30,000 units of medical supplies including rehydration solutions, antibiotics, pain killers, drugs against fever and diarrhoea as well as medical disposables such as sterile syringes, surgical gloves and tape.