Female face of migration Archives - Page 6 of 11

Treat migrant women with dignity, says Caritas

24/05/2012 Advocacy, Female face of migration, Migration by Caritas Communications

When women migrate alone to other countries for work, “they face the psychological burden of being responsible for their families, while not being at home to care for them. They face the moral and economic burden of sending money back to them. They face exploitation and abuse by people they travel with or by their ...

Caritas aids Somali refugee women in Kenya

16/05/2012 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Female face of migration, Kenya, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Refugees, Somalia by Caritas Communications

In summer 2011, when famine and violence were engulfing her country, Fadumo “Mama” Sharif Mohamed left Somalia with her husband and ten children. On their eight-day trek to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, militia attacked them and they lost the family’s food. Her children, like thousands of others, suffered from malnutrition. But she and ...

Photo exhibit highlights plight of Nepali women

16/05/2012 Advocacy, Asia, Blog, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration, Nepal, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

Caritas staff members and colleagues from six continents were in Rome for Caritas Internationalis governance meetings this week. They also had time to see a photo exhibit showcasing Caritas’ work to stop human trafficking and unsafe migration. The exhibit, hosted at the residence of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Miguel Diaz and funded by ...

In Nepal, a Walk Down Cheat Street

27/04/2012 Advocacy, Asia, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration, Nepal, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

Caritas tries to offer at-risk people other options, giving small loans to poor women.

FAQs on human trafficking in Nepal

27/04/2012 Advocacy, Asia, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration, Nepal, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

What is human trafficking? Human trafficking is a crime in which traffickers deceive and recruit people, often across national borders, for the purpose of exploitation (forced labour, beggary, prostitution or removal of organs). Traffickers often lure impoverished victims with false promises of good jobs. When a person is working against their will, is not being ...

Sold out: Migration and human trafficking in Nepal

27/04/2012 Advocacy, Asia, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration, Nepal, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

In Asia’s slums or impoverished villages, women and teenage girls will listen when a well-dressed stranger offers them a job. In Nepal, a poor country on the northeast border with India, thousands of young women leave their homes in search of work abroad. Sometimes the jobs offered are legitimate—the women earn money and help their ...

Alem’s life is over, but her story is not: ending domestic worker abuse in Lebanon

22/03/2012 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration by Caritas Communications

Recently, a viral video showing the abuse of an Ethiopian migrant in Lebanon shocked those who saw it. The Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center (CLMC) has worked with abused housemaids for years and sends us this timeline in the life of Alem, who was known to CLMC staff. By Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center Staff Like over ...

Happy to be home in Nepal

22/03/2012 Advocacy, Asia, Blog, Female face of migration, Migration, Minor migrants, Nepal, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

By Laura Sheahen Thirty-year-old Madhu Tharu has been working for other people since she was a little girl. A bonded labourer in a village of bonded labourers, the Nepali woman basically belonged to her landlord. The system of serfdom that trapped her wasn’t abolished in Nepal until the early 2000s. So for years, she worked ...

On board trains to the United States, migrants are not alone

16/03/2012 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration, North America, Trafficking, United States by Caritas Communications

It is 7:30pm, in Amatlan, in the province of Cordoba Veracruz. The train whistle blows in the distance. In Norma Romero Vazquez’ kitchen, headquarters of the “Patronas “, women bustle about.. Carmen, 90, the oldest of the women in the family, takes a crate filled with bags of food. Along with her daughters and granddaughters, Carmen ...

Home alone in Nepal

16/03/2012 Advocacy, Asia, Blog, Female face of migration, Migration, Nepal, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

By Laura Sheahen “Where’s your mother?” Usually when you ask small children this question, the answer is predictable: At home. At the market. At work, a few kilometres or a drive away. In villages of Nepal, a deeply impoverished country on India’s northeast border, children answer differently. “In Kuwait.” “In Saudi.” “She’s in a foreign ...