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The Global Fund to End Modern Slavery Announces New Program to Support Migrant Workers in Malaysia, Indonesia | Global Fund to End Modern Slavery (gfems.org)
The Global Fund to End Modern Slavery (GFEMS) is excited to announce a new partnership with a corporate foundation to create safer migration pathways for migrant workers in Malaysia and Indonesia. The foundation’s $1.2 million commitment will empower more workers with tools and knowledge to migrate safely and will engage businesses to promote ethical recruitment […]
USAID Safe Migration in Central Asia (SMICA) Activity Annual: Covered: October 1, 2020 – September 30, 2021
The global COVID-19 pandemic put millions of migrants from Central Asia in precarious situations, both in terms of health and safety, as well as income. Recognizing this, the SMICA activity allocated funds for a COVID-19 response including emergency assistance, skills training, and information campaigns. SMICA leveraged new and existing tools to raise awareness about trafficking […]
Mapping Rohingya Movement: Collected Data on the Trafficking Routes of a Persecuted Population
Rohingya Muslims are one of the many ethnic minority groups in Myanmar and represent the largest percentage of Muslims in the predominantly Buddhist country. However, they are denied citizenship and have faced persecution and violence for several decades. In August 2017, deadly attacks by Myanmar’s army sent hundreds of thousands of Rohingya from Rakhine State […]
Valuing Victims Voices A Participatory Action Research Project with Victims of ‘Seafood Slavery’ for Effective Counter-Trafficking Communication
The exploitation of men working as fishing crew in distant water (DW) fisheries is attracting increasing attention from the international community as an urgent contemporary human and labour rights problem. However, the voices of victims are often drawn on in a highly selective and limited manner. We propose an alternative approach and methodology to include […]
The Case for Source Water Protection in WASH Systems: Entry Points and Opportunities
Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) systems depend on the reliable availability of good quality water. Surface and groundwater resources around the world, however, are increasingly stressed due to overabstraction, declining water quality, and climate change. Source water protection is an important part of ensuring the sustainability of WASH systems and maintaining healthy and resilient ecosystems, […]
A Study on Service Provision for Gender Minorities in Shelters for Human Trafficking Survivors in Thailand
This study on Service Provision for Gender and Sexual Minorities in Shelters for Human Trafficking Survivors in Thailand aims to: understand the existing policies and procedures for providing services to this group in specialized TIP shelters in Thailand; and provide recommendations on how to meet their needs better.
Volunteering Abroad with Winrock International
We are looking for volunteers with a wide range of experience, including but not limited to: Technical areas: agribusiness, entrepreneurship, marketing, international trade, food processing, access to credit, farming, agricultural sciences, nutrition, livestock development, natural resource management, community development, renewable energy, gender, education and training, engineering, and information communications technologies. General capacity building: business planning, […]
Final Report: Efficient Electric Cooking Market Uptake in Nepal (EECMU)
The overall objective of the study is to gather and disseminate information to increase adoption of Electric Pressure Cookers (EPCs) and their impact on load management and grid design. The specific objectives include: To determine consumer’s preference on the use of EPCs, willingness to pay, preferred business models, economic benefits of EPCs, and impacts of […]
Indebted Before Departure: Information Arbitrage and Financial Exploitation by Philippine Migration Intermediaries
Labor migration is currently the most common predicate action leading to human trafficking and forced labor, and debt bondage is the most common indicator of forced labor. Based on Migrasia’s first hand experience with directly assisting thousands of migrant domestic workers per year, instances of collusion between migration intermediaries in migrants’ pre-departure phase have been […]