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A migrant is a person who moves from one place to another, typically in search of work, education, or better living conditions. Migrants can be either internal, meaning they move within their own country, or international, meaning they move to another country. Migrants often face challenges and hardships, such as language barriers, discrimination, and lack of access to services and support. However, many migrants are also able to improve their lives and opportunities through their efforts to relocate. The phenomenon of migration has existed throughout human history, and continues to be a significant and complex issue in many parts of the world.
Each year, tens of thousands of people text or call 1-888-373-7888, the national human trafficking hotline. Now, lawmakers are pushing to require that number to be posted in every airport, bus station, rail station and all ports of entry in the United States. Senators introduced on Thursday the Human Trafficking Prevention Act, bipartisan legislation which…
Today marks the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. This day is focused on countering contemporary forms of slavery, such as forced labour, debt bondage, forced marriage, and human trafficking. In September this year, the new Global Estimates of Modern Slavery were released by Walk Free, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the International…
Supermarkets have raised concerns around the U.K.’s seasonal worker visa system which is leaving migrant workers vulnerable to exploitation, and supermarkets at risk of falling foul of their human rights obligations. Unheeded warnings Criticisms have been levelled against the scheme since its hasty inception with warning from labor rights groups being ignored by the government…
HOUSTON – Sex trafficking and human smuggling make big headlines in Texas. They are both forms of human trafficking that victimizes many. Yet experts say another form of trafficking that is easier to accomplish is creating what many consider modern day slavery. [embedded content] It is called labor trafficking and the traffickers take advantage of…
856 migrants have died at US southern border in 2022, breaking record: CBP Two people were arrested in Tampa, Florida, in connection with a human trafficking case that began in Cuba, according to authorities. Amet Ramon Maqueira de la Cal and Rosalia Leonard Garcia were arrested on multiple charges, including human trafficking and false imprisonment….
Morocco’s migration policy is an example to follow for the world as a whole, the Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), António Vitorino, said on Wednesday in Fez. In a statement to the press after talks with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, on the sidelines of the 9th Global Forum of the…
Authorities in Portugal have arrested a total of 35 people on human trafficking charges in addition to allegations of money laundering and falsifying documents. Dozens of migrants were reported to have fallen prey to the trafficking ring. The suspects reprimanded by the police include both Portuguese nationals and others from other parts of Europe. They…
Bangladeshi migrant workers are reporting returning to their home countries saddled with debt after paying high recruitment fees to work in Qatar. These costs include paying for international travel, passports, visas, medical fees and other charges. Contracts cut short In order to break even, a Bangladeshi 2020 Cost of Migration Survey found that male workers…
An information campaign targeting Filipinos seeking to work abroad is necessary to help protect them from groups that will recruit them to work as scammers, Migrant Workers Secretary Susan Ople said Wednesday. In a TV interview, Ople said that aside from Myanmar, the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) is also looking at human trafficking incidents…
To recover this outlay, the survey found that men need to spend at least 18 months earning money in Qatar before they break even. Women need around six months. If they are sent home too early, or if they fail to earn enough while there, they will return to debts that they will struggle to…
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