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The Youth Alliance Against Human Trafficking would like to introduce a new edition of the #StayAwakeCampaign. The #StayAwakeCampaign is a dedicated initiative spotlighting human trafficking among precarious migrant youth. Through this campaign, we adopt an intersectional lens, addressing the intertwined vulnerabilities and oppressions faced by migrant youth. We’ll focus on: Understanding human trafficking: Demystifying myths…
As a part of the annual Victims and Survivors of Crime Week, the Toronto Counter Human Trafficking Network hosted on May 17th a hybrid forum to raise awareness and address the root causes of the ever growing labour trafficking issue in Canada. The forum identified the issue at hand, by discussing the realities of labour…
When: Wed, May 17, 2023 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM Where: Central Neighbourhood House: 349 Ontario Street, Toronto, ON M5A 2V8. Register » The Toronto Counter Human Trafficking Network presents their annual Victims and Survivors of Crime Week event on May 17th 10-12:30pm. This will be a hybrid forum to raise awareness and address the…
The Migrant Women’s Counter Human Trafficking Alliance (MWCHTA) invites you to our workshops, open to all newcomer migrant women! We are now presenting: Meditative Art with our facilitator Carolina Gajardo! During these sessions, she will guide us in how to use simple art techniques that help relax and release stress, and most of all give us…
In 2020, the federal government proclaimed February 22nd as National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in Canada. The crime of Trafficking in Persons was added to the Canadian Criminal Code in 2005, less than 20 years ago. The law criminalizes forced organ removal, forced marriage, indentured servitude, labour exploitation, and sexual exploitation. These crimes are commonly…
New research shows that employer discrimination, unsafe working conditions and gaps in government policy put migrant workers at risk of being exploited once they arrive in Canada. FCJ Refugee Centre and the Canadian Centre to End Human Trafficking’s newly released report, It Happens Here: Labour Exploitation Among Migrant Workers During the Pandemic, reveals that migrant…
The FCJ Refugee Centre, together with Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) and The Neighbourhood Organization (TNO), is organizing monthly virtual information sessions for migrant workers. In these sessions you will learn important infomation on issues like: What are your labour rights in Canada? What is labour exploitation and human trafficking? Immigration remedies such as…
The Youth Alliance Against Human Trafficking would like to introduce the #StayAwakeCampaign. This three-week campaign will consist of content that raises awareness around the issue of Human Trafficking amongst precarious migrant youth. The United Nations defines Human Trafficking as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people through force, fraud, or deception, with the…
Register » The Migrant Women’s Counter Human Trafficking Alliance continues organizing our bi-weekly meetings. The sessions are open to all newcomer migrant women! The goal for members is to engage in community building and social connection. Sessions will provide a safe space and tight knit community for all migrant women. This will allow the opportunity…
Register » The Migrant Women’s Counter Human Trafficking Alliance is a regional project that aims to enhance capacity and knowledge regarding the specific barriers and challenges presented in international cases where women have been victimized and marginalized by Human Trafficking. At FCJ Refugee Centre we are committed to approaching women through a peer led model…
Human Trafficking Awareness Day (February 22nd, 2021) The Toronto Counter Human Trafficking Network – TCHTN calls for awareness among all Canadians to recognize Human Trafficking as a growing concern across Canada. Despite the pandemic, human trafficking continues to take advantage of systemic issues such as poverty, inequity, and legislation focused on prosecuting criminals, as opposed…
Anti-Human Trafficking Youth Worker The Youth Worker will support in the development and implementation of the Youth Alliance against Human Trafficking, a program which provides holistic support to young people from conditions of human trafficking, labour exploitation and sex trafficking. The project also established preventative measures by providing comprehensive access to information to equip vulnerable…
Call from the FCJ Anti-Human Trafficking Migrant Workers Mobile Program – Migrant Rights Network: 5 migrant farmworkers have been hospitalized with COVID-19. Hundreds of others are sick from Windsor, ON, to Kelowna, BC, to Brooks, AB. Migrant care workers remain trapped by employers who refuse to let them leave even to send remittances to families in need. Today…
You are invited to register for this informative webinar Anti-Human Trafficking Work Challenges during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Finding Housing for Human Trafficking Victims. For registration follow the link: Please register for Anti-Human Trafficking Work Challenges during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Finding Housing for Human Trafficking Victims on Jun 4, 2020 3:30 PM EDT at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/89840402830920203…
Celebrating Courage, Renewing Commitment This forum provided in-depth knowledge and innovative approaches on how to maintain anti-human trafficking efforts and provide services to survivors during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explored innovative ways of partnership collaboration during the pandemic. Recognize and understand how to navigate the system given the current situation of the COVID-19 pandemic. Also…