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This piece was jointly submitted with Women’s Peace Network to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons in response to their call for inputs. For decades, as an ethnic minority group, the Rohingya people have faced discrimination, oppression, and persecution in Myanmar. Stripped from their access to property, citizenship, and other basic rights,…
Urgent actions are needed to prevent trafficking, ensure assistance and protection, and accountability. [iStockphoto] A United Nations human rights expert on Wednesday called on South Sudan to strengthen prevention measures and improve protection and support for victims of human trafficking. Urgent actions are needed to prevent trafficking, ensure assistance and protection, and accountability, UN Special…
“It was like a prison. […] It was traumatic. There were high walls, barbed wires, cameras everywhere. Everywhere you went there were locked doors.” – Jasmine (not her real name) Speaking to openDemocracy, Jasmine shares the awful conditions she faced when locked up in immigration detention centers around the U.K., with her latest detention in…
The Honorable Janet L. Yellen Secretary of the Treasury U.S. Department of the Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20220 The Honorable Antony Blinken Secretary of State U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20520 December 8, 2022 Dear Secretary Yellen and Secretary Blinken: The undersigned nongovernmental organizations are writing to…
Maggie is a researcher with the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration & Integration program at Toronto Metropolitan University and this new podcast is Borders & Belonging. Maggie will talk to leading experts from around the world and people with on-the-ground experience to explore the individual experiences of migrants: the difficult decisions and many…
GENEVA (25 November 2022) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material, Mama Fatima Singhateh, will visit the Philippines from 28 November to 8 December 2022. The Special Rapporteur will examine the protection of children against sexual exploitation, child…
The UN is set to review the U.K.’s human rights record in its universal periodic review (UPR) this week, which is anticipated to result in strong recommendations regarding the U.K’s rollback of support and rights for modern slavery survivors. Steady rollback of rights and support Since it’s last review in 2017, the U.K. has steadily…
7 November 2022 Image credit: Thammachak Sotiya, via Shutterstock. This year we have seen the devastating impact on human lives by environmental events, amplified by climate change, such as the floods in Pakistan and devastating drought in the Horn of Africa, caused by five years of lack of rain. We know that in many cases…
GENEVA ( 31 October 2022) – UN Special Rapporteur Siobhán Mullally will assess the human rights issue of trafficking in persons during an official visit to Bangladesh from 31 October to 9 November 2022. “I will pay particular attention to the main challenges to ensuring the human rights of victims, and effective prevention of trafficking,”…
UN Special Rapporteur Siobhán Mullally arrived in Bangladesh today (October 31, 2022) on a 10-day official visit to assess the human rights issue of trafficking in persons. “I will pay particular attention to the main challenges to ensuring the human rights of victims, and effective prevention of trafficking,” she said in a statement. A particular…
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