Biometric Identification: Iom, ECOWAS, NAPTIP Launch Campaign On Free Movement, Human Trafficking - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 24, 2019
The International Organization for Migration, IOM isembarking on a cross-border roadshow to sensitise people in West African coastson the ECOWAS National Biometric Identity Card.
The five-day campaign which took off at Mile-twoECOWAS Motor Park, Lagos was also expected to enlighten transporters plyingWest African coasts on the fight against human trafficking.
The project, which was jointly funded by ECOWASCommission and European Union in partnership with National Agency of theProhibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, was in support of Free Movementof Persons and Migration in West Africa.
The banner promoting ECOWAS National BiometricIdentity Card was unveiled while T-shirts and posters containing information onanti-trafficking were given to the transporters leadership by sponsors.
ECOWAS Director of Free Movement AlbertSiaw-Boateng, said that the sensitization campaign would promote the use of theBiometric Identity Card and other valid travel documents to better facilitatemobility throughout the region.