Argentina - Officials from 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries are meeting this week in the Argentinian resort city of Mar del Plata for 11 days of intensive training focused on regional and international migration trends.

Delegates from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay will also exchange information on best practices in migration policy and programs in the Western Hemisphere.

This year’s course, led by experts from Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, the USA and Uruguay, will examine a broad range of migration topics.

These include: understanding migration processes in Latin America and the Caribbean; migration management instruments; the international protection and human rights of migrants; policies and programs on international migration, such as those concerning labor migration; assistance to migrants; counter-trafficking; and regional consultative processes on migration.

Over the past 35 years, the program, which for the past nine years has been organized by the IOM Regional Office in Buenos Aires, has trained over 700 government officials.

For further information, please contact

Jorge Gurrieri
IOM Buenos Aires
Email: jgurrieri@iom.int