Between 1998 and 2008, several hundred North Koreans worked for roughly ten Czech companies. They were mostly young women employed in the shoemaking, textile, and food industries. Initially, their presence attracted little attention from the media o...Read More

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The data in this report represents signals and cases from January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2018 and is accurate as of July 25, 2019. Cases of trafficking may be ongoing or new information may revealed to the National Hotline over time. Consequen...Read More

Labour migration may benefit employers and workers, and across the world recruitment agencies play an important role in matching migrant workers with available jobs. However, while the cost of recruitment of higher skilled migrant workers tends to b...Read More