We co-organised a webinar with the UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking to reflect on the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Trafficking Protocol and the need to put human rights at the centre of all anti-trafficking work (see more below). [...] News from the GAATW International Secretariat UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking Organises Webinars on Twenty Years after the UN Trafficking Protocol In June and July, the (now former) UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, Dr Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, organised two webinars to reflect on the successes and challenges of the implementation of the UN Trafficking Protocol twenty years af. [...] ASTRA's goal is to inform people looking for work in the country or abroad how to protect themselves and recognise the signs of trafficking, and to inform victims about their rights and the types of assistance available to them. [...] He describes how deficits in democracy and the rule of law in Bulgaria, the widespread corruption and economic destitution, and the neoliberal economic policies of the past 30 years are pushing more and more people to leave the country to seek job opportunities abroad and risk, or put up with, exploitative working conditions. [...] The report finds that the systematic disenfranchisement of migrants through the "hostile environment" has exacerbated the negative effects of the pandemic and lockdown on this group.
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