Human Trafficking Case on two Fishing Vessels in Namibia, is Taiwan part of it?

On March 28, 2023, an old friend sent me a link of a report on Inquirer: “DMW says 35 Filipino fishers became victims of forced labor in Namibia“, and that drew my attention.

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撕開粉飾太平的假面，正視國內人口販運問題

2022年8月23日外籍漁工人權保障聯盟在移民署「2022年防制人口販運國際工作坊」會場外舉行記者會，這是我先寫好的簡單發言稿。當天發言內容沒有完全一致。

桃園市群眾服務協會

移工政策處主任汪英達

2022.8.23.

因為多名國人於柬埔寨受詐騙、成為人口販運被害人的事件，人口販運突然成了全國的熱門話題，從行政院以下各部會也都動了起來，積極協助在中南半島可能遭到詐騙的國人。但事實上，若以國際的標準而言，在國內的多數移工，其實多數都是人口販運被害人。我們在積極營救可能成為人口販運被害的同胞的同時，也絕對應該以同樣嚴肅的角度、同樣嚴峻的行動，打擊國內的人口販運情況。

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What is NFESA trying to do to domestic workers under the COVID-19 pandemic?

We got two pictures from a caretaker, and she got it from her broker. It is an official letter issued on January 19 from the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) in reply to the National Federation of Employment Service Association (NFESA) for their earlier request. 

It seems some brokers are starting to send the letters to the migrant workers who want to transfer to the factory and apparently can’t understand the written Chinese at all and give them some misleading and wrong explanation of the letter, and so it has been a confusion to some migrant workers already. I think it is absolutely necessary to clarify the contents of the letter to all migrant workers who might get the same messages and pictures from their brokers. 繼續閱讀「What is NFESA trying to do to domestic workers under the COVID-19 pandemic?」