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.'
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.
The Palermo police have discovered a criminal network exploiting unaccompanied migrant minors taken from reception facilities and used in pizzerias and fields for very low wages.
A total of 430,000 farm workers are exposed to exploitation by gang masters, according to a recent report published by the observatory Rizzotto. In addition, 132,000 of them are socially vulnerable. Up to 39 percent of farm workers are hired illegally, according to the report.
The Palermo police have discovered a criminal network exploiting unaccompanied migrant minors taken from reception facilities and used in pizzerias and fields for very low wages.
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 number of trafficking victims forced into quasi slave labor is growing, according to anti-trafficking experts. A new report states that labor exploitation is a key factor driving migrant smuggling in several European countries .
A court in Naples has sentenced a Bangladeshi national to eight years in jail for exploiting undocumented workers in a form of 'modern-day slavery'.