Four people have been arrested in Italy over the alleged exploitation of asylum seekers as security officers at rock concerts. The concerts included shows by the Rolling Stones, Depeche Mode and Italian rock star, Vasco Rossi.
A total of 780 human trafficking victims were reported in Tunisia in 2018, up from the 742 registered the previous year, the National commission for the fight against human trafficking (INLCTP) has said. The majority of cases were 'domestic slavery' and 'forced labor.'
Authorities in Italy launched a big operation to break up a criminal organization that exploited hundreds of migrant workers and treated them like slaves near the Italian city of Latina.
A report by the German Institute for Human Rights says German labor laws are utterly inadequate in protecting foreign workers' rights. Foreign laborers are often forced into hardships out of fear of losing their jobs.
Migrant agricultural workers in some parts of southern Italy are "enduring extreme levels of labor exploitation and coercion, and inhumane working and living conditions," the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery Urmila Bhoola said after a 10-day visit to Italy. The rapporteur said that she was concerned about the fact that the basic needs of workers for water, sanitation and healthcare were not being met in informal settlements she visited.
Sicilian police has arrested two men accused of extreme exploitation of migrant workers on Thursday. The suspects allegedly paid workers just three euros an hour to work in the fields for up to 12 hours a day.
The Andalusia town council has asked for an investigation to be conducted into the sexual assault and exploitation of female seasonal migrant workers after a reportage spotlighted the issue.
Italian authorities have uncovered a serious case of exploitation, after it was found that migrants were being forced to work under terrible conditions and were being tracked by their employers using GPS devices.
Degradation, marginalization, and no real solutions from institutions are hallmarks of the life of thousands of migrant day laborers on farms in Calabria. The NGO MEDU has called for actions from the authorities to resolve the situation.