New York, July 30, 2021 – Since 2013, the UN designated 30 of July the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, a date to raise awareness on the need to fight human trafficking and its numerous and pernicious effects on victims and societies alike. Human Trafficking is a terrible crime that neglects human beings their very humanity, making them objects to be exploited for pure economic profit, mainly in sexual or labor activities. As the UN Trafficking in Persons Protocol defines it, human trafficking is 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 person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Besides, it is a crime where transnational criminal networks play a dominant role. Continue reading SIMN Reiterates Its Commitment to the Prevention and Combat of Human Trafficking in the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons (July 30) →

New York, July 28, 2021 – Today, at the Meeting Global Civil Society – Member States Dialogue on Engagement in the International Migration Review Forum (IMRF), Víctor Genina, Director of Development and Policy of SIMN, raised the following issues in order to have a successful and meaningful first IMRF, the follow-up forum of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM), adopted in 2018: Continue reading SIMN Calls for the Adoption of a New Approach on Migration Issues at the Multilateral Level in Light of the Essential Role Migrants Played Before the Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic →