@katbaldacchino
Human trafficking, migration, asylum, environment and turtles | Consultant on developing responses to Human Trafficking and integrating Protection/Safeguarding measures into humanitarian responses | I'm usually found in warmer Mediterranean climates
It impacts the work we do on so many levels, from recruitment to service design and delivery. It's striking to hear the level of solidarity and concern people have about the current direction of travel regarding EDI and the regression in this area.
I just attended a really interesting conference on intersectionality, and its application across public policy. Thanks to the University of Malta for the invitation.
One of my favourite phrases at conferences remains ... 'In the interest of time'. I cringe each time someone else uses it, but have used it myself so many times 😂
At the end of last year I left my role as Head of Anti-Trafficking at the British Red Cross, in order to focus on consultancy work. It's really difficult to summarise 10+ yrs of being part of an organisation & movement I feel so passionately about, & being in a role I feel privileged to have held.
A great first day on a new consultancy contract... lots of very exciting trafficking-response things in the works over the next few months....
I'm feeling very privileged that I get to do what I do.
#trafficking #humantrafficking #slavery #modernslavery #migration #malta
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Finally! Someone who validates my cringe at yet another digestive or custard cream, thank you!
We still have so far to go to properly acknowledge the way asylum and trafficking can overlap, and the way undocumented entry can be an indicator of trafficking (and therefore it shouldn't be used to exclude people from trafficking support)
Some staff work 18-hour days, some sleep on floor and some have no access to drinking water
@lanre-bakare.bsky.social
How many of these studies do we need?
A study published in Social Sciences by CUNY SPH suggests that laws criminalizing sex work do not prevent human trafficking and instead leave sex workers vulnerable to coercion and unsafe conditions. adigaskell.org/2025/01/24/c...
*and I totally realise I'm a late arriver here*
I haven't opened a new social media account in ages... it's a wierd feeling setting this all up and looking for my clan on here, I keep typing in names as they randomly pop in my head to see if they're here yet 😄
In case you missed it: Changes to guidance on requesting reconsideration of trafficking leave decisions | Sonia Lenegan https://freemovement.org.uk/changes-to-guidance-on-requesting-reconsideration-of-trafficking-leave-decisions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=changes-to-guidance-on-req…
(5/5) as well as the Human Rights Directorate Maria Catania, Alexia Manduca, Michael Camilleri and Lynn Chircop Faure.
(4/5) I was privileged to work alongside these wonderful Council of Europe colleagues Imene KHALIFA, Stephanie Doukkali Burel, Nadia Marino and Justin Antonides, the International experts Kamelia Dimitrova, Colin Carswell and Bernie Gravett...
(3/5) ... and plans to support Maltese authorities achieve the goals of the strategy.
I'm now supporting the early stages of the development of Survivor Advisory Panels which will support survivor-lead and survivor-centered policy and practice.
(2/5) I'm particularly proud of the research I was able to conduct with survivors of trafficking, to understand their experience of identification and support in Malta.
There is now an array of results-based management tools and resources, implementation guidelines ...
Last week marked the end of a 2 year journey, working with brilliant international and Maltese colleagues to develop Malta's first Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking, and its Action Plan. (1/5)
#trafficking #humantrafficking #CouncilofEurope #DGReform #EU #Malta