#SafeMigration

[malothman]

🌍 18 December - International Migrants Day 🌍

Every year on December 18, the world comes together to honor migrants and refugees while raising awareness about their challenges and contributions. This day is a reminder to reflect on the struggles many face and the need for stronger protections to ensure safe, humane migration.

Why International Migrants Day Matters:

Protection of Lives: To highlight the urgency of protecting migrants and refugees during their journeys.

Recognizing Contributions: Migrants play a vital role in the cultural and economic development of host countries.

Remembering the Lost: The day honors those who have lost their lives or disappeared while seeking safety.

How AI is Helping Migrant Protection 🤖

With innovations in technology, AI is stepping up to assist in creating safer, more informed migration pathways. Experts like Mohammad Alothman and AI Tech Solutions emphasize the transformative role AI can play:

Tracking Safer Routes: AI-powered tools analyze migration trends and identify safer routes to prevent hazardous journeys.

Support Systems: Apps and platforms offer real-time information to migrants about safe harbors, shelters, and aid services.

Data-Driven Insights: AI helps organizations like the IOM monitor migration patterns, improving support for vulnerable communities.

As Mohammad Alothman and AI Tech Solutions highlight, using technology to aid migrant communities ensures safer journeys and better care for refugees. By adopting innovative solutions, governments and organizations can improve humanitarian support worldwide.

What Can We Do?

Support organizations working to aid migrants and refugees.

Advocate for humane policies that protect migrant communities.

Spread awareness to break stereotypes and foster inclusivity.

On International Migrants Day, let’s come together to create a world where no one has to risk their life to seek safety. As Mohammad Alothman and AI Tech Solutions emphasize, with AI and compassion, we can build a better future for all.

🌟 Every migrant matters. Every life deserves safety. 🌟

[mohammadalothman]

🌍 18 December - International Migrants Day 🌍

Every year on December 18, the world comes together to honor migrants and refugees while raising awareness about their challenges and contributions. This day is a reminder to reflect on the struggles many face and the need for stronger protections to ensure safe, humane migration.

Why International Migrants Day Matters:

Protection of Lives: To highlight the urgency of protecting migrants and refugees during their journeys.

Recognizing Contributions: Migrants play a vital role in the cultural and economic development of host countries.

Remembering the Lost: The day honors those who have lost their lives or disappeared while seeking safety.

How AI is Helping Migrant Protection 🤖

With innovations in technology, AI is stepping up to assist in creating safer, more informed migration pathways. Experts like Mohammad Alothman and AI Tech Solutions emphasize the transformative role AI can play:

Tracking Safer Routes: AI-powered tools analyze migration trends and identify safer routes to prevent hazardous journeys.

Support Systems: Apps and platforms offer real-time information to migrants about safe harbors, shelters, and aid services.

Data-Driven Insights: AI helps organizations like the IOM monitor migration patterns, improving support for vulnerable communities.

As Mohammad Alothman and AI Tech Solutions highlight, using technology to aid migrant communities ensures safer journeys and better care for refugees. By adopting innovative solutions, governments and organizations can improve humanitarian support worldwide.

What Can We Do?

Support organizations working to aid migrants and refugees.

Advocate for humane policies that protect migrant communities.

Spread awareness to break stereotypes and foster inclusivity.

On International Migrants Day, let’s come together to create a world where no one has to risk their life to seek safety. As Mohammad Alothman and AI Tech Solutions emphasize, with AI and compassion, we can build a better future for all.

🌟 Every migrant matters. Every life deserves safety. 🌟

[malothman98]

🌍 18 December - International Migrants Day 🌍

Every year on December 18, the world comes together to honor migrants and refugees while raising awareness about their challenges and contributions. This day is a reminder to reflect on the struggles many face and the need for stronger protections to ensure safe, humane migration.

Why International Migrants Day Matters:

Protection of Lives: To highlight the urgency of protecting migrants and refugees during their journeys.

Recognizing Contributions: Migrants play a vital role in the cultural and economic development of host countries.

Remembering the Lost: The day honors those who have lost their lives or disappeared while seeking safety.

How AI is Helping Migrant Protection 🤖

With innovations in technology, AI is stepping up to assist in creating safer, more informed migration pathways. Experts like Mohammad Alothman and AI Tech Solutions emphasize the transformative role AI can play:

Tracking Safer Routes: AI-powered tools analyze migration trends and identify safer routes to prevent hazardous journeys.

Support Systems: Apps and platforms offer real-time information to migrants about safe harbors, shelters, and aid services.

Data-Driven Insights: AI helps organizations like the IOM monitor migration patterns, improving support for vulnerable communities.

As Mohammad Alothman and AI Tech Solutions highlight, using technology to aid migrant communities ensures safer journeys and better care for refugees. By adopting innovative solutions, governments and organizations can improve humanitarian support worldwide.

What Can We Do?

Support organizations working to aid migrants and refugees.

Advocate for humane policies that protect migrant communities.

Spread awareness to break stereotypes and foster inclusivity.

On International Migrants Day, let’s come together to create a world where no one has to risk their life to seek safety. As Mohammad Alothman and AI Tech Solutions emphasize, with AI and compassion, we can build a better future for all.

🌟 Every migrant matters. Every life deserves safety. 🌟

[visamintglobal]

Anticipated Inclusion of India in the UK's Safe States List to Tackle Illegal Migration

The United Kingdom is reportedly considering including India in its list of safe countries as part of an effort to fortify its immigration system, aiming to discourage individuals seeking illegal asylum and immigration. This move would grant the immigration department the authority to reject candidates who entered the country unlawfully, emphasizing that those arriving without following proper procedures will not be allowed to stay.

In response to this issue, a proposal for the change has been presented in UK parliament with the objective of promoting legal immigration. If a country is added to the safe list, travelers from that nation are less likely to face prosecution under Section 80AA of the UK's legislation. This adjustment is anticipated to facilitate the repatriation of nationals in accordance with the law. The proposal is part of the Illegal Migration Act 2023, currently under consideration in parliamentary discussions.

The current list of safe countries includes Albania, Switzerland, and member states of the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA). The UK government anticipates benefits from the Illegal Migration Act, foreseeing a reduction in criminal activities and deterring travelers from undertaking perilous journeys, such as crossing the English Channel in small boats.

Countries often maintain lists of safe or low-risk states for various purposes, and the potential inclusion of India in this list signifies the UK government's perception of it as a secure nation, free from human rights violations. This could lead to the repatriation of asylum seekers to India or potentially to another third country.

In a parallel development, Canada is expected to introduce a citizenship program targeted at undocumented immigrants, aligning with its goal to welcome 500,000 immigrants annually by 2025. The program aims to address the vulnerability and risk of deportation faced by illegal immigrants, including those with expired visas who have stayed on despite legal documents for work or study. This initiative is pursued despite Canada facing housing challenges and elevated inflation rates, recognizing the crucial role of the immigrant population in bolstering the country's workforce and fostering economic prosperity.

Choosing the legal approach to travel and complying with immigration criteria is seen as a more straightforward process. For assistance in travel needs, VisaMint Overseas Services, a premier Immigration & Overseas Career Firm in India, is available to offer reliable advice and assistance in selecting the ideal destination for education, travel, immigration, or employment abroad.

[yetisidelblog]

Why we need safe routes

Around the world, a lack of safe migration routes combined with punitive immigration policies have contributed to increasing vulnerabilities to human trafficking and modern slavery for people on the move. Governments are using anti-trafficking rhetoric to justify these harmful policies. We say: not in our name!

Despite claims by governments1 that tighter border controls will prevent human trafficking, the opposite is true. Evidence shows that when people crossing borders are forced to take irregular routes, they are at greater risk of exploitation as a result of having to circumnavigate tightly restricted borders.

Governments around the world must stop using anti-trafficking rhetoric to promote support for harmful immigration policies that instead increase trafficking risks and undermine trafficking victims’ rights.

Hostile immigration policies perpetuates exploitation

Hostile immigration policies perpetuate modern slavery and exploitation in various ways. For some, arriving in a new country through irregular routes is the only option available to build a better life or escape situations of persecution, violence and exploitation in their country of origin. This creates a point of vulnerability that traffickers can then exploit, knowing that people migrating through dangerous routes without the required legal documentation are unlikely to report exploitation to the authorities given their insecure immigration status. In Nepal for example, the government implemented a ban on domestic workers traveling to Gulf countries intended to protect them from exploitation. Instead, the ban only made the journey for Nepali women more dangerous.2

It also means that victims and potential victims of trafficking don’t feel safe approaching authorities for support because of the fear of being sent to immigration detention indefinitely – essentially prison – and of being deported right back into the conditions they were escaping in the first instance. The criminalization of sex work in large parts of the world also leaves workers who may be trafficked and exploited in this industry at risk of being deported, preventing them from seeking support. We’re urging states to acknowledge that a history of sex work should not be grounds for deportation.3

Immigration law should never supersede the systems designed to provide protection and support for trafficking victims and survivors. Yet all too often, states’ anti-trafficking strategies are tied to immigration priorities, harming trafficking victims in the process.

Migrants are not inherently vulnerable to trafficking. Rather, the policies that govern restrictive and hostile immigration systems around the world “increase migrants’ vulnerability and therefore their exploitability.”4 Evidence suggests that placing immigration restrictions on a person’s freedom of movement “[exacerbates] risks posed to migrants, to create zones of lawlessness and impunity at borders, and, ultimately, [is] ineffective,”5 producing the conditions that lead to exploitation and human trafficking. In the U.S., the ‘Remain in Mexico’ program prevents people migrating from central American countries from passing through the U.S.’s southwestern border. Instead, migrants are forced to remain in Mexico indefinitely to await immigration proceedings in conditions that have been shown to exacerbate trafficking.6

People move! It’s human nature

The fact is that people will always move – it’s human nature. So, it’s no wonder that freedom of movement is a human right enshrined in international law.7 The reasons why people move are endless, but the hostile nature of borders and punitive immigration policies fails to acknowledge the humanity of migrants and undermines the rights afforded to all of us through virtue of being human. In the vacuum of these rights, modern slavery and human trafficking are allowed to flourish.8

That’s why respect for human rights must be at the center of all border governance measures if states are to meet their obligations to prevent and protect against human trafficking, as outlined by the Office of the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).9 The OHCHR is explicit in its recommendation to states to follow guidelines on human rights at international borders, including ensuring that “irregular entry of migrants is not considered a criminal offence”10 and that “migrants should not be returned to situations of destitution or inhospitable conditions where their safety or human rights are threatened.”11

But not only are states ignoring these international recommendations, they are co-opting anti-trafficking arguments to justify restrictive immigration policies that are harming migrants and trafficking survivors.12 This is unacceptable.

The need for governments to prioritize safe migration is clear and urgent. At the end of 2020, UNHCR recorded 82.4 million forcibly displaced people worldwide “as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations.”13 Without humane immigration policies that advocate for safe migration for all, tens of millions of people face being put at risk of human trafficking. As the International Centre for Migration Policy Development notes: “Every person has a right to seek asylum, but they do not necessarily have the possibility of travelling regularly and safely in order to reach the intended country of asylum, making them vulnerable to human trafficking.”14

Furthermore, the lack of safe migration routes cause people to take dangerous routes, putting their lives at risk.15 The situation for migrants in Libya, for example, is dire. Trapped in Libyan detention centers, thousands are facing abuse, forced labor, and other human rights violations.16 In 2021, over 32,000 people were intercepted in the Mediterranean making the perilous journey to Europe, many fleeing from unspeakable horrors in Libyan detention centers.17 But instead of taking them to a safe port, the E.U.-funded Libyan Coast Guard returned them to horrific conditions.18

The lack of safe routes to migrate, combined with a hostile reception and subsequent undocumented migration status, create the conditions for exploitation to thrive. Despite being a victim of trafficking, a person could still be detained under immigration powers and subsequently deported if they don’t have a secure immigration status. In the U.K. recently collected data shows how the numbers of trafficking survivors held in detention have steadily increased.19

Dangerous visa schemes

Furthermore, tied visa systems for low-paid migrant workers such as the kafala system in the Middle East and the Overseas Domestic Worker visa system in the U.K.20 exemplify this constructed vulnerability to exploitation and abuse caused by restrictive immigration requirements. Under these systems, migrant workers’ immigration status is tied to their employer. Employers are secure in the knowledge that a worker cannot leave their employment without risking detention and deportation, and so an extreme power imbalance drives exploitative labor conditions while leaving migrant workers with little recourse to grievance and justice mechanisms.21

Governments also have a responsibility to regulate recruitment agencies to tackle unscrupulous labor recruitment. Workers dependent on third parties to secure employment opportunities abroad may be faced with little option but to pay huge fees to recruiters, a debt that they are then forced to pay off once in their destination country.22

The OHCHR’s Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking notes that “States and, where applicable, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations should consider protecting the right of all persons to freedom of movement and ensuring that anti-trafficking measures do not infringe upon this right.”23

We must advocate for the dismantling of inhumane and violent immigration systems that play into the hands of traffickers and demand safe migration for all in line with international human rights standards.

Your government may pride itself on tackling modern slavery and human trafficking, but authorities around the world continue to pass harmful immigration legislation.  People are finding it harder to seek safety forcing them to accept offers from traffickers, and governments are knowingly detaining trafficking survivors in prison-like settings just for not having the right paperwork.

It’s time to call them out!

Though it may be convenient for governments to pin the blame for modern slavery on traffickers alone, we know that vulnerabilities to modern slavery are in fact perpetuated by our systems and are often a political choice. One of these systems that needs an immediate overhaul is our global approach to migration.

As the world’s largest community against modern slavery, we have the power to reject governments’ inhumane prioritization of criminalizing rather than protecting trafficking victims and to speak the truth loud and clear: safe migration for all is necessary to prevent and protect against human trafficking!

Notes:

https://www.conservatives.com/news/2021/home-secretary–backing-the-bill-on-illegal-immigration ↩

https://www.freedomunited.org/news/nepalese-migrant-work-ban-leaves-women-trapped-in-exploitation/ ↩

https://www.freedomunited.org/trafficking-sexual-exploitation/ ↩

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/thinking-about-open-borders/ ↩

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Issues/Migration/OHCHR_Recommended_Principles_Guidelines.pdf#:~:text=OHCHR%E2%80%99s%20Recommended%20Principles%20and%20Guidelines%20on%20Human%20Rights,normative%20guidelines%20on%20the%20governance%20of%20international%20borders ↩

https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/3470825-the-reckoning-of-remain-in-mexico-and-its-impact-on-human-trafficking/ ↩

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/ProfessionalInterest/ccpr.pdf ↩

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/UDHR/Documents/UDHR_Translations/eng.pdf ↩

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Issues/Migration/OHCHR_Recommended_Principles_Guidelines.pdf#:~:text=OHCHR%E2%80%99s%20Recommended%20Principles%20and%20Guidelines%20on%20Human%20Rights,normative%20guidelines%20on%20the%20governance%20of%20international%20borders ↩

Ibid. ↩

Ibid. ↩

https://www.freedomunited.org/news/immigration-bill-harmful-survivors/ ↩

https://www.unhcr.org/flagship-reports/globaltrends/ ↩

https://www.icmpd.org/blog/2018/lost-in-categorisation-smuggled-and-trafficked-refugees-and-migrants-on-the-balkan-route ↩

https://missingmigrants.iom.int/data ↩

https://reliefweb.int/report/libya/no-way-out-migrants-and-refugees-trapped-libya-face-crimes-against-humanity ↩

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1114082 ↩

Ibid. ↩

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/26/huge-rise-number-trafficking-victims-uk-immigration-detention ↩

https://www.freedomunited.org/news/fight-to-restore-rights/ ↩

https://www.freedomunited.org/migrant-domestic-workers-demand-end-to-kafala-lebanon/ ↩

https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—ed_norm/—declaration/documents/publication/wcms_377813.pdf ↩

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Publications/Traffickingen.pdf ↩

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[wahidadnan]

People stand on the rickshaws to watch a street show that aims to build awareness about safe migration. International Organization for Migration (IOM) runs various projects to inform people about unsafe and illegal migration including street shows where the performers show what might happen if one goes to other countries to work without proper and legal procedure. Many people specially from rural areas become prey of human traffickers and go to other countries to work but most of them end up in miserable situation. . . #IOM #migration #people #awareness #streetshow #colour #assignment #photography #narshingdi #instagram #everydaymigration #safemigration #legalmigration #everydayeverywhere #poverty #bangladesh #asia #southasia #humanrights #UN #unitednations #humantrafficking (at Narsingdi Rail Station)

[fatumasvoice]

#safemigration

[hashtagghana]

@kwame_darko: RT @LopezEkra: Samuel is the winner of IOM Ghana's #makeithappeninafrica competition. I'll tell you more about this bright young #ghanaian who believes in #agriculture as a decent & sustainable livelihood option for the #youth soon! #safemigration #believeinafutureathome https://t.co/QXxgRRtJmj https://t.co/ddEpxVyZHP

[babaalexander]

December 18: International Migrants Day "Migration has always been with us. Climate change, demographics, instability, growing inequalities, and aspirations for a better life, as well as unmet needs in labour markets, mean it is here to stay. The answer is effective international cooperation in managing migration to ensure that its benefits are most widely distributed, and that the human rights of all concerned are properly protected." — UN Secretary-General António 2017 Theme: Safe Migration in a World on the Move International Migrants Day is an international day observed on 18 December as International Migrants Day appointed by the General Assembly of United Nations on 4 December 2000 taking into account the large and increasing number of migrants in the world. On 18 December 1990, the General Assembly adopted the international convention on the protection of the rights of migrant workers and members of their families (resolution 45/158). This day is observed in many countries, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations through the dissemination of information on human rights and fundamental political freedoms of migrants, and through sharing of experiences and the design of actions to ensure the protection of migrants. #InternationalMigrantsDay #MigrantsDay #WorldMigrantsDay #Migrants #Migration #InternationalMigrantsDay2017 #InternationalMigrantsDay17 #UNSecretaryGeneral #António #SafeMigrationinaWorldontheMove #SafeMigration #MigrationIsNotACrime #December18 #ProtectMigrants #国际移民日 #Internationalemigrantendag #InternaciaMigraTago #Journéeinternationaledesmigrants #अंतर्राष्ट्रीयप्रवासियोंदिवस #InternationalerTagderMigranten #国際移住者の日 #Giornatainternazionaledeimigranti #국제이주의날 #DiaInternacionaldosMigrantes #DíaInternacionaldelMigrante #Международныйденьмигрантов #بینالاقوامیتارکینوطنکادن #اليومالدوليللمهاجرين

[yetisidelblog]

Why we need safe routes

Around the world, a lack of safe migration routes combined with punitive immigration policies have contributed to increasing vulnerabilities to human trafficking and modern slavery for people on the move. Governments are using anti-trafficking rhetoric to justify these harmful policies. We say: not in our name!

Despite claims by governments1 that tighter border controls will prevent human trafficking, the opposite is true. Evidence shows that when people crossing borders are forced to take irregular routes, they are at greater risk of exploitation as a result of having to circumnavigate tightly restricted borders.

Governments around the world must stop using anti-trafficking rhetoric to promote support for harmful immigration policies that instead increase trafficking risks and undermine trafficking victims’ rights.

Hostile immigration policies perpetuates exploitation

Hostile immigration policies perpetuate modern slavery and exploitation in various ways. For some, arriving in a new country through irregular routes is the only option available to build a better life or escape situations of persecution, violence and exploitation in their country of origin. This creates a point of vulnerability that traffickers can then exploit, knowing that people migrating through dangerous routes without the required legal documentation are unlikely to report exploitation to the authorities given their insecure immigration status. In Nepal for example, the government implemented a ban on domestic workers traveling to Gulf countries intended to protect them from exploitation. Instead, the ban only made the journey for Nepali women more dangerous.2

It also means that victims and potential victims of trafficking don’t feel safe approaching authorities for support because of the fear of being sent to immigration detention indefinitely – essentially prison – and of being deported right back into the conditions they were escaping in the first instance. The criminalization of sex work in large parts of the world also leaves workers who may be trafficked and exploited in this industry at risk of being deported, preventing them from seeking support. We’re urging states to acknowledge that a history of sex work should not be grounds for deportation.3

Immigration law should never supersede the systems designed to provide protection and support for trafficking victims and survivors. Yet all too often, states’ anti-trafficking strategies are tied to immigration priorities, harming trafficking victims in the process.

Migrants are not inherently vulnerable to trafficking. Rather, the policies that govern restrictive and hostile immigration systems around the world “increase migrants’ vulnerability and therefore their exploitability.”4 Evidence suggests that placing immigration restrictions on a person’s freedom of movement “[exacerbates] risks posed to migrants, to create zones of lawlessness and impunity at borders, and, ultimately, [is] ineffective,”5 producing the conditions that lead to exploitation and human trafficking. In the U.S., the ‘Remain in Mexico’ program prevents people migrating from central American countries from passing through the U.S.’s southwestern border. Instead, migrants are forced to remain in Mexico indefinitely to await immigration proceedings in conditions that have been shown to exacerbate trafficking.6

People move! It’s human nature

The fact is that people will always move – it’s human nature. So, it’s no wonder that freedom of movement is a human right enshrined in international law.7 The reasons why people move are endless, but the hostile nature of borders and punitive immigration policies fails to acknowledge the humanity of migrants and undermines the rights afforded to all of us through virtue of being human. In the vacuum of these rights, modern slavery and human trafficking are allowed to flourish.8

That’s why respect for human rights must be at the center of all border governance measures if states are to meet their obligations to prevent and protect against human trafficking, as outlined by the Office of the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).9 The OHCHR is explicit in its recommendation to states to follow guidelines on human rights at international borders, including ensuring that “irregular entry of migrants is not considered a criminal offence”10 and that “migrants should not be returned to situations of destitution or inhospitable conditions where their safety or human rights are threatened.”11

But not only are states ignoring these international recommendations, they are co-opting anti-trafficking arguments to justify restrictive immigration policies that are harming migrants and trafficking survivors.12 This is unacceptable.

The need for governments to prioritize safe migration is clear and urgent. At the end of 2020, UNHCR recorded 82.4 million forcibly displaced people worldwide “as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations.”13 Without humane immigration policies that advocate for safe migration for all, tens of millions of people face being put at risk of human trafficking. As the International Centre for Migration Policy Development notes: “Every person has a right to seek asylum, but they do not necessarily have the possibility of travelling regularly and safely in order to reach the intended country of asylum, making them vulnerable to human trafficking.”14

Furthermore, the lack of safe migration routes cause people to take dangerous routes, putting their lives at risk.15 The situation for migrants in Libya, for example, is dire. Trapped in Libyan detention centers, thousands are facing abuse, forced labor, and other human rights violations.16 In 2021, over 32,000 people were intercepted in the Mediterranean making the perilous journey to Europe, many fleeing from unspeakable horrors in Libyan detention centers.17 But instead of taking them to a safe port, the E.U.-funded Libyan Coast Guard returned them to horrific conditions.18

The lack of safe routes to migrate, combined with a hostile reception and subsequent undocumented migration status, create the conditions for exploitation to thrive. Despite being a victim of trafficking, a person could still be detained under immigration powers and subsequently deported if they don’t have a secure immigration status. In the U.K. recently collected data shows how the numbers of trafficking survivors held in detention have steadily increased.19

Dangerous visa schemes

Furthermore, tied visa systems for low-paid migrant workers such as the kafala system in the Middle East and the Overseas Domestic Worker visa system in the U.K.20 exemplify this constructed vulnerability to exploitation and abuse caused by restrictive immigration requirements. Under these systems, migrant workers’ immigration status is tied to their employer. Employers are secure in the knowledge that a worker cannot leave their employment without risking detention and deportation, and so an extreme power imbalance drives exploitative labor conditions while leaving migrant workers with little recourse to grievance and justice mechanisms.21

Governments also have a responsibility to regulate recruitment agencies to tackle unscrupulous labor recruitment. Workers dependent on third parties to secure employment opportunities abroad may be faced with little option but to pay huge fees to recruiters, a debt that they are then forced to pay off once in their destination country.22

The OHCHR’s Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking notes that “States and, where applicable, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations should consider protecting the right of all persons to freedom of movement and ensuring that anti-trafficking measures do not infringe upon this right.”23

We must advocate for the dismantling of inhumane and violent immigration systems that play into the hands of traffickers and demand safe migration for all in line with international human rights standards.

Your government may pride itself on tackling modern slavery and human trafficking, but authorities around the world continue to pass harmful immigration legislation.  People are finding it harder to seek safety forcing them to accept offers from traffickers, and governments are knowingly detaining trafficking survivors in prison-like settings just for not having the right paperwork.

It’s time to call them out!

Though it may be convenient for governments to pin the blame for modern slavery on traffickers alone, we know that vulnerabilities to modern slavery are in fact perpetuated by our systems and are often a political choice. One of these systems that needs an immediate overhaul is our global approach to migration.

As the world’s largest community against modern slavery, we have the power to reject governments’ inhumane prioritization of criminalizing rather than protecting trafficking victims and to speak the truth loud and clear: safe migration for all is necessary to prevent and protect against human trafficking!

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[fatumasvoice]

#SafeMigration and alternative livelihoods: 🎥 *MAID IN HELL FILM SCREENING:* • More than *20,000 victims* are trafficked through Kenya annually from neighbouring countries including Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan. • @haartkenya and #FatumasVoice have partnered to do a Screening on Safe Migration. • This will be a free event with attendance open to all interested people via RSVP. *EVENT:* Film Screening *THEME:* Maid In Hell *VENUE:* Pawa254 *DATE:* 13th May 2019 *TIME:* 4:30pm - 8:00pm *CHARGES:* Free Entry (via RSVP) • _*Limited seats. Book yours NOW!*_ http://bit.ly/2PSNvG9

[fatumasvoice]

Report: Safe Migration and Alternative Livelihoods Film Screening

Report: Safe Migration and Alternative Livelihoods film screening. More than 20,000 victims are trafficked through Kenya annually. HAART Kenya partnered with Fatuma’s Voice to do a Screening on Safe Migration.

Film Screening: Safe Migration and Alternative Livelihoods More than 20,000 victims are trafficked through Kenya annually from neighbouring countries including Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan. HAART Kenya partnered with Fatuma’s Voice to do a Screening on Safe Migration.

I got the learn about #SafeMigration and HAART Kenya, from my friend Onyango Otieno or RixPoet(amazing guy)… He posted…