Dear friends,
We have reached the end of 2023 and the Rain Collective is grateful for all of your support as we work together to disrupt the cycle of human trafficking in the Middle East…
Liberia has been on and off the State Department's human trafficking watch list for years. In this desperately poor country, people accept jobs from agents to work as domestic servants in other countries. Usually, they are trapped, earning little money and subject to abuse. But several hundred Liberian women used social media to escape their traffickers in 2022.
Human trafficking is a grave violation of human rights, a contemporary form of slavery that preys on the vulnerable and thrives in the shadows. According to the Trafficking in Persons Report of 2023 the government of Jordan is placed at Tier 2 for it does not fully meet the minimum standards of the elimination of trafficking but it’s making effort to do so.
Introduction to Trafficking in Persons Report: Defining TIP, 3Ps, Tiers, Acts, Means & Purpose and other terms.
As the eyes of the globe shifted towards Qatar during the 2022 World Cup, media reports focused on the working conditions and deaths of migrant workers building Qatar’s infrastructure and in the Middle East at large…. Read the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs article.
By Evelyne Mugisha
Every year, an average of 24,086 Ugandans go to the Gulf States in search of employment. Historically, there have been several challenges locally in the fight against the plight of migrant workers in the Middle East. Learn More…
US Department of State - Trafficking In Persons Report July 2022
Read the full report here: https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/337308-2022-TIP-REPORT-inaccessible.pdf
