Trafficking Archives - Page 11 of 11

Fight Trafficking: What to do in the European Union?

29/08/2010 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Europe, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

They are forced into sexual slavery, their organs are removed, they are exploited in the workplace. These are just some of the realities of the people who fall victim to human trafficking. Caritas members are currently at a meeting in Paris to urge the current French Presidency of the EU to raise awareness about the ...

Caritas statement on human trafficking

29/08/2010 Advocacy, Asia, Female face of migration, India, Migration, Nepal, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

Sanumaya Tamang and Sani Tam-ang were both 16 when they were taken to brothels in India. More than 10,000 women and children form Nepal are trafficked into India every year. Internal conflict, poverty, illiteracy and unemployment in Nepal are the root causes of the problem. In India, Caritas is working with authorities to toughen government ...

Pan Asia campaign against trafficking

29/08/2010 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

Alice was 25 when she left her job in Manila, the Philippines. She is a qualified civil engineer, yet her salary was not enough to pay for her four brothers and sisters to go through school. When she saw an advertisement offering well-paid posts as civil engineers in Kuwait, she contacted the recruitment agency immediately. ...

Trafficking in Bosnia and Herzegovina

29/08/2010 Advocacy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe, Female face of migration, Migration, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

In the middle of 1990 people trafficking became a very serious and complicated problem in the countries of Eastern and Central Europe, such as Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Pakistan’s child camel jockeys get a fresh start

24/06/2010 Blog, Migration, Minor migrants, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

Falak Sher took his young son and his nephew from their rural village in Pakistan’s Punjab region to race as camel jockeys in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 1998. He was in search of a fortune, but found a nightmare. Once there, his children were starved to keep their weights at the minimum for ...