A new project being launched today by IOM’s Regional Office
in San José and the Rahab Foundation in the Central Pacific
Region of Costa Rica is calling for zero tolerance to human
trafficking on Costa Rican soil.

The project’s focus is the prevention of human
trafficking, providing protection and assistance to the victims and
ensuring that Costa Rica is not used as a transit or destination
country by traffickers.

Funded by the U.S. Department of State, the project also aims to
promote and strengthen local capacity at the community level to
both analyze the problem and find common solutions to be
implemented by both the public and private sectors at the very
local level.

Costa Rica’s Central Pacific Region is a favourite tourist
destination where cases of human trafficking for commercial sexual
exploitation have been identified.  Trafficking victims are
brought to this area from other countries such as Colombia and
Dominican Republic as well as from other regions within the Costa
Rican territory. 

For more information contact:

Agueda Marín

IOM San José

Tel: 506.233 2020, ext. 136

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