EU provides new support to help migrants and victims of human trafficking
The EU has today announced a new project to promote and protect the rights of migrants moving between developing countries, worth over €10 million. The project focuses on two types of migrants: those who carry out domestic work in the recipient country (e.g. house-cleaning) and those who fall victim of human trafficking.
Concrete actions undertaken through this project include providing social assistance to the migrants and their families (access to healthcare, legal assistance and interpretation services, for instance) and supporting the civil society in the promotion of well-managed migration, labour and anti-trafficking policies and legislation. EU Development Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, said: “This project proposes an innovative approach focusing on migration between developing countries. It shows the EU’s genuine and firm commitment to address human trafficking and forced labour, some of the worst forms of modern slavery, and our will to improve migrants’ rights more generally. And it’s clear for us that we need to work with civil society to make sure that migrants' dignity is respected".
For more information: IP/14/1077
