Captive commodities - “This route is like a fire” - ravenstone consult

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Captive commodities - “This route is like a fire” - ravenstone consult

7 Mar 2023

The GCM includes the objectives to “respond to the needs of migrants who face situations of vulnerability, which may arise from the circumstances in which they travel or the conditions they face in countries of origin, transit and destination, by assisting them and protecting their human rights” and to “save lives and prevent migrant deaths and injuries”. [...] Human trafficking: According to the Palermo Protocol, trafficking is defined as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a. [...] The brutal methods established by smugglers to facilitate the irregular movement of refugees and migrants along the Eastern Route from Ethiopia to the Arabian Peninsula can be described as a criminal industry predicated on the commodification of human beings, and not infrequently leading to disappearances and death. [...] According to a 2021 ACAPS report on the Eastern Route, ‘the number of migrants attempting the journey is likely to increase in the long term.’17 The risks Due to the geographical challenges along the Eastern Route — hot, inhospitable terrain and the Gulf of Aden or the Bab el Mandeb sea crossings — few, if any, refugees and migrants can make the journey to Saudi without smugglers. [...] The risks Ethiopian refugees and migrants face along the Eastern Route are considerable and have been the subject of various reports and studies over the last decade or more.18 Reports of the high number of migrants that drowned crossing from the Horn of Africa to Yemen started to attract attention from the international community in 2008/9, but subsequent scrutiny revealed that for many migrants,.
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