REPORT - Protecting Asian Trafficking Victims in Europe - In Focus: The Czech Republic, Poland, and Romania

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REPORT - Protecting Asian Trafficking Victims in Europe - In Focus: The Czech Republic, Poland, and Romania

17 Oct 2022

It must be noted that the Special Act of the 12th of March 2022 on assistance to citizens of Ukraine in the context of the armed conflict on the territory of Ukraine, increased the prison sentences for human trafficking, forced prostitution and other related crimes for the period of war in Ukraine.7 The offence of human trafficking does not have extraterritorial effect8 in the Czech Republic, Pola. [...] The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education and Research, and the National Authority for the Protection of the Rights of the Child and Adoption are responsible for monitoring compliance with the different statutes on the protection of minors in Romania. [...] The Polish legal framework on labour and labour protection of migrant workers consists of the Law on Employment Promotion and Labour Market Institutions, the Law on Foreigners, the labour code, the Act on the sanctions for employment of foreigners unlawfully residing on the territory of the Republic of Poland, and the criminal code. [...] The Romanian legal framework on labour and labour protection of migrant workers consists of four instruments: the labour code, the Law on the Unemployment Insurance System and Employment Stimulation, the government decision on the quota of newly admitted foreign workers into the labour market in 2021, and the emergency ordinance on the regime of foreigners in Romania. [...] The police concluded that the alleged acts of non-payment of overtime, the threat of revocation of residence permits, the alteration of timesheets and the forceful signing of documents in a foreign language, did not meet the threshold of the offence of human trafficking under the Czech criminal code.
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