IOM has launched a six-month nationwide public information campaign
to combat human trafficking in Kenya.

The campaign, which uses the slogan "People are Not for Sale.
Beware of Human Trafficking," is funded by Norway and Canada and
will be implemented in partnership with the government, media and
local NGO partners.

"The campaign will include a series of three-minute infomercials
broadcast in Kiswahili, the national language, before four prime
time news bulletins on Kenya Broadcasting Service," says IOM Kenya
Counter-Trafficking Programme Officer Alice Kimani.

"National television will also televise a court drama on human
trafficking in its popular Vioja Mahakamani programme. And IOM will
get other TV and radio spots where listeners can call in and ask
questions about human trafficking," she adds.

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The campaign will also work with NGO and other partners to
develop and distribute Information, Education and Communication
(IEC) materials, organize stakeholder forums and train government
counterparts to raise public awareness and encourage people to
report cases of human trafficking.

IOM is also helping the Ministry of Labour to set up a website,
where counter-trafficking information will be posted. The website
will offer advice to potential labour migrants on how to avoid
becoming victims of trafficking and details of whom to contact if
they become involved with traffickers.

Kenya is a source, transit and destination country for human
trafficking. People are trafficked both internally and
internationally. Internal trafficking is mostly from rural to urban
areas for domestic work, sexual exploitation and agricultural
work. 

International trafficking destinations include Germany, the
Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, the
United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, mostly for domestic work and
sexual exploitation. 

Girls are also trafficked to Kenya from Rwanda, Uganda,
Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi for
sexual exploitation and from Tanzania for agricultural and domestic
work. Trafficking victims from South East Asia, Pakistan and
Ethiopia transit through Kenya en route to South Africa and
Europe. 

For further information please contact:

Alice Kimani

E-mail: "mailto:akimani@iom.int">akimani@iom.int

or

Rose Ogola

IOM Kenya

Tel: +254 20 4444 174/167

E-mail:  "mailto:rogola@iom.int">rogola@iom.int