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Effort to Criminalize Undocumented Migration Comes as Hostility to Immigrants Rises
Judith Sunderland, senior researcher at Human Rights Watch
(Milan) - The Italian Senate should reject legislative proposals that would impose criminal penalties on undocumented migrants and provide a national framework for vigilante groups, Human Rights Watch said today. The senate is expected to vote on the legislation (known as the "security package") this week. "Treating migrants as criminals won't solve Italy's immigration challenges," said Judith Sunderland, senior Western Europe researcher at Human Rights Watch. "This bill only encourages intolerance, and worse, against people whose lives are tough enough already." Full article |
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Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ)
16-24 April, Vienna
The CCPCJ held its 18th Session in April which was relevant to global anti-trafficking discussions as one agenda item was the work of the UNODC in looking at the ratification and implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime, which is supplemented by the Human Trafficking Protocol. GAATW International Secretariat (IS) attended and made an intervention on this issue. We were also able to engage in other processes taking place in Vienna at this time.
These discussions were very much linked to Review Mechanism discussions at the UNTOC Conference of Parties and some States Parties raised the need for a review mechanism to UNTOC when making interventions on this agenda item.
GAATW-IS made an intervention on the agenda item concerning the work of the UNOTC in looking at the ratification and implementation of UNTOC raising two points which we feel are not being given enough attention at an international level:
1. The human rights of trafficked persons; and
2. Effective coordination of anti-trafficking efforts
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GAATW held the second in a series of three Roundtables last week focusing on the theme - TRAFFICKING AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY: Impacts on the rights of migrants from trade, the financial crisis and new regimes of control.
On 25-27 March, GAATW-IS staff joined in discussions with a group of ‘experts’ and long-time GAATW friends - Liepollo Pheko from the Trade Collective in South Africa, Shalmali Guttal from Focus on the Global South in Bangkok, Fanny Polania a GAATW founding member and consultant in Colombia, Vicky Nwogu from UNIFEM West Africa, and Jackie Pollock from the MAP Foundation in Thailand.
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