Human Trafficking in Malta

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According to the Maltese Embassy of the United States, Malta serves as a trafficking destination for women and children who are subjected to forced labor, including in restaurants, private households and in unskilled or semi-skilled labor. With regards to our local issue, African mirgants whom are labelled as ‘irregular immigrants’ are directly being trafficked in the country’s informal labor market. Between 2003 and 2011 there were 25 reported victims 24 of which were women all of foreign dissent. Most of them arrived illegally from Russia, Ukraine and Romania, Nigeria and even China, no child victims or Maltese nationals have been reported. There has even been a case were two of these already mentioned victims have been re-trafficked inside Maltese shores. Due to the fact that Immigrants are not being included as people being trafficked (GRETA, 2013) a crucial step in enhancing the Maltese Action Plan is also the calling to draw up a Manual of Procedures for the identification of victims of trafficking especially those victims among vulnerable populations, particularly migrants, children, women in prostitution and foreign workers.This procedure has to be adopted within different local and European stakeholders, government organisations and non-governmental organisations(NGOs). Moreover despite some reported cases regarding trafficking in Malta, the data that is available does not show the actual real scale problem, Malta has also been dubbed as “a country of transit” in the case of human trafficking but despite the lack of evidence Maltese authorities have questioned this allegation. This shows that a lot more emphasis should be given to human trafficking in Malta not only in learning about how to identify such cases but by cond... ... middle of paper ... ... in Human Beings, Greta, 2013. Report concerning the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Being by Malta. First evaluation round. Council of Europe. 3. Mifsud Bonnici, C., 2012. 13 charged with human trafficking in 5 years [Interview] (22 March 2012). 4. Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, 2012. Trafficking in Persons Report 2012, s.l.: U.S Department of State. 5. Saari, S., 2006. Balancing between inclusion and exclusion: The EU's fight against irregular migration and human trafficking from Ukraine, Moldova and Russia, London: London School of Economics. 6. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, 2012. Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Regugees, For the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report- Universal Periodic Review: Malta.

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