International Organization for Migration/Amul Dairy Cooperative ( pizzagate )

submitted by nomorepepperoni

I wasn't the one who found this, but I'm making a dedicated thread for digging into it.

From a 2004 Trafficking in Persons report found in State Dept. emails:

https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/september2014/F-2012-21691WEP/DOC_0C05602802/C05602802.pdf

Page 81

"CLOSE TO 1,000 TRAFFICKING VICTIMS HAVE BEEN RETURNED TO ANDHRA PRADESH FOR REHABILITATION, MOSTLY FROM DELHI, MUMBAI, GOA AND PUNE. ANOTHER 400 VICTIMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE REPATRIATED. BETWEEN APRIL/JUNE 2003, 74 GIRLS WERE RESCUED FROM DELHI AND GOA BROTHELS AND BROUGHT BACK TO THE HYDERABAD NGO PRAJWALA, WHICH WORKS WITH A NETWORK OF RURAL NGOS TO COORDINATE REHABILITATION PLANS. THE STATE GOVERNMENT HAS PROVIDED RS. 1,500 ($33.33) TO EACH OF THE 62 GIRLS. THE GOVERNMENT ALSO SUPPORTS THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION/AMUL DAIRY COOPERATIVE'S 4 PIZZA PARLORS, WHERE 21 TRAFFICKED VICTIMS ARE EMPLOYED AT RS. 3,000 PER MONTH."

"Pizza parlors" used as rehab for trafficked girls? Hmmm...

http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/international-organization-for-migration.html

Seems their logo has very vaguely generic "swirly" properties to it, FWIW.

And interesting that they're a UN org, considering the UN's past issues in the scope of sex abuse...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-08/charges-dropped-against-un-peacekeepers-accused-child-abuse-car

Also, the same division IOM is under (UNHCR) has also had payroll issues in the past, including those leaving being overpaid.

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Office_of_the_United_Nations_High_Commissioner_for_Refugees:_Audit_of_UNHCR_Payroll_(AR2004-162-02),_8_Dec_2004

"Sufficient attention had not been given to the clearance of overpayments to separated staff totalling nearly US$ 330,000. Some of the overpayments dated back as far as 1998"

Of course, it was "difficult" to assign blame...

"The largest overpayment occurred in 2002 for some US$ 68,800 to 38 (former) local staff at Sub- Office, Peshawar." in Pakistan, FWIW.

Let's see what else we can dig up and what ties there are.

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nomorepepperoni

Looks like IOM also worked in Greece to deliver and distribute winter clothing to migrants.

http://www.unhcr.org/gr/en/2662-unhcr-delivers-over-200000-winter-items-to-asylum-seekers-across-greece.html

Amongst those they're having help distribute these clothes?

"The distribution will be carried out by the non-governmental organizations ARSIS, Danish Refugee Council, Elpida Home"

Wait, Elpida Home? Why, where have I heard THAT name before...

http://radcliffefoundation.org/project/elpida-home/

nomorepepperoni

Oh hi there, Clinton Foundation and Haiti!

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/main/news-and-media/press-releases-and-statements/announcements-from-president-clintons-agricultural-investment-trip-to-haiti.html

"Fuego del Sol (FdS), in collaboration with the World Food Program (WFP), Haiti National Office, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Haiti Communitere (HC), will receive $100,000 in funding from the Clinton Foundation to produce fuel briquettes for eco-stoves that the WFP places in area schools. The project will provide 20 jobs to the most vulnerable and earthquake affected citizens of Haiti, selected by the IOM. The Foundation’s grant will enable the project to triple its production of briquettes, and to undertake price setting and efficiency tests for their production process."

So IOM is involved in picking who gets the jobs for this CF-backed "Fuego del Sol". Hmm.

https://sites.google.com/a/elfuegodelsol.com/elfuego/

"GeoTourism Adventures" Umwut?

And yup, this is the right place.

https://sites.google.com/a/elfuegodelsol.com/elfuego/about-us

This "about" page seems to include a success story about someone using a sun oven. And of course...

"One of the favorite local staple dishes in the DR is a type of fried chicken. Olga and her team at the Grupo Jaragua Community Center in Ovieado, DR developed a new method of roasting chicken in the solar oven that results in juicy chicken with a crispy skin almost identical to fried chicken, but a healthier alternative. Most who eat it think it is fried, but this solar method uses much less oil than frying, deliciously cooking the chicken in its own juices. Cooking innovations like Olga’s Sun Oven Roasted Chicken are the key to continued use by members of this and neighboring communities."

Probably literal chicken, of course, but interesting.