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Season III, 2024

End Human Trafficking - A Commitment for All
 

CHHA-1610 AM and the Mary Ward TO Center continue to connect Canada and Latin America to prevent human trafficking, a crime that has many faces and takes advantage of ignorance. Human trafficking for labour and sexual exploitation, the rights of migrant workers, the commitment of governments to prevent human trafficking and other topics will be covered in this 2024 season.

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In the 2024 season, our allies are:
IBVM Spain - Irlandesas, joins as a strategic ally.
Amarc Alc The network of community radio stations in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Diocese of Montreal, Program for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
Radio Progreso, broadcasts from Honduras.
Radio University of Guadalajara, from Mexico.
Internacional Stereo Ipiales from Colombia on the border with Ecuador.

10 | Government's role in preventing and protecting victims of human trafficking and migrant labour exploitation. - November

 

​Let’s shed light on these critical issues and discuss actionable solutions for change.

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Guests:

  • Mexico - Cynthia Moreno Mendez - Consul of Protection, Agricultural Workers and Legal Affairs Consulate General of Mexico in Toronto

  • Spain - Daniel Martinez - Jesuit Migrants Service 

  • Canada - Alessandra Santopadre - Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers Program Manager

  • Spain - Marta Santos - IBVM Spain

9 | ​​International Students - Challenges and opportunities. - October

 

​A student from Mexico and a former student from Ecuador talks about their experience in Toronto, the challenges they faced and the advantages of studying in a foreign country.

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Guests:

  • Canada - Tania Martinez - International student from Mexico (Currently)

  • Canada - Lucas Avila - International Studentfrom Ecuador (2023-2024)

  • Canada - Alessandra Santopadre - Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers Program Manager

  • Canada - Indriani Molina - International Educational Advisor (Montreal)

8 | ​​Sex trafficking and exploitation are a reality that no one can deny. - September

 

​How traffickers take advantage of people migrating and crossing borders. Listen to a case from Honduras.

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Guests:

  • Spain - Marta Gonzalez - Fundacion AMARANTA

  • Canada - Alessandra Santopadre - Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers Program Manager

  • Spain - Marta Santos - IBVM Spain.

  • Honduras - Iolani Perez - Radio Progreso Honduras

7 | ​​Human Trafficking from the perspective of multilateral organizations. - August

 

​How to understand human trafficking from its different modalities from the human rights perspective.

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Guests:

  • Canada - Eva Rodriguez-Diaz - Manager Migration and Human Trafficking at Mary Ward Centre.

  • Canada - Alessandra Santopadre - Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers Program Manager

  • Spain - Marta Santos - IBVM Spain.

6 | ​Policy proposals regarding migration and migrant workers. - July

 

​Migrants without status live, work, study, consume, and have lived in different countries worldwide. What alternatives do they have to achieve recognition as working and contributing residents in these countries?

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Guests:

  • Canada - Luis Mata - Migration legal assistant, activist for the rights of migrants.

  • Panama - Jorge Luis Ayala, sc - Pastoral of Human Mobility - Episcopal Conference of Panama

  • Spain - Raquel Torrejón - Movimiento Por Un Mundo + Justo.

  • Canada - Alessandra Santopadre - Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers Program Manager

  • Spain - Marta Santos - IBVM Spain.

5 | Testimony of a migrant worker and Help Centers in Canada and Spain - June

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On June 17th, we made our 15 radio programs, completing 15 hours of broadcasting and talking about the rights of migrants and migrant workers, the risk of migration using non-legal pathways and how to prevent being a victim of human trafficking.

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Guests:

  • Spain - IVBM Spain, Marta Santos interviewed to MariaLopez, from SERCADE España

  • Canada - Diocese of Montreal, Alessandra Santopadres, responsible for the Program for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers

  • Canada - Diocese of Huron, Fr Enrique Martinez, Priest in Long Point Bay and director of Huron Farm Workers Ministry.

4 | Migrant Workers rights - May

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The reality of migrant workers in Canada, as active actors in the Canadian economy, as strong workers in the provision of food, care, health and construction. How do temporary migrant worker agreements and contracts operate in practice? Are the agreements and pacts signed by Canada fully complied with? Do all employers hiring migrant workers guarantee and protect the rights of migrant workers in the same way? An analysis of the realities of Ontario and Quebec in Canada and Spain

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Guests:

  • Spain - IVBM Spain, Marta Santos interviewed to Macarena Ubeda, from the Organization Pueblos Unidos

  • Canada - Diocese of Montreal, Alessandra Santopadres, responsible for the Program for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers

  • Canada - ALAC Montreal, Tatiana Jaramillo

3 | Did you decide to migrate? How do you prepare for the trip and arrival in the country where you will work? - April

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If you migrate as a worker, your labour rights are the same as those of other workers; You even have additional rights, not fewer rights.

 

Countries establish legal procedures and costs for immigration processes. If someone charges you more money or expenses outside the legally established legal expenses, those are risk indicators in the immigration process. It is illegal for an employer to ask for your passport, work permit, study permit or any personal document to retain it and deduct or not pay you for work days if you get sick. When an employment contract includes a place to live, that place must have decent and safe living conditions, and the employer cannot deduct that place from your salary. If the contract is written in a language other than your own, someone should read the contract to you in your language before you sign it, allowing you to ask questions and clarify its terms. If you are going to migrate as a temporary worker through an agreement between countries, the Government of your country must provide you with information about the agreement, the type of work you will do, the nature of the contract you will sign, the benefits it will have, the duration of the contract among others.

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Guests:

  • Spain - IVBM Spain, Marta Santos interviewed to Macarena Ubeda, from the Organization Pueblos Unidos

  • Canada - Diocese of Montreal, Alessandra Santopadres, responsible for the Program for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers

  • El Salvador - Public Voice, Javier Ramon from Public Voice, El Salvador

2 | Migration and Migrant Workers - March

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Every person has the right to migrate, which is safeguarded by international instruments (UN), as is the case with the right to work as a migrant (ILO).


Since 1973, Canada has created a Federal program to provide migrant workers to fill workspaces where labour is required and has also established bilateral agreements with some countries for this purpose.

Companies hiring migrant workers and temporary migrant workers have particular obligations to guarantee their rights and provide the necessary benefits so that their stay in Canada as temporary workers is in accordance with international and national standards.

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Guests:

  • Spain - IVBM Spain, Marta Santos interviewed to Macarena Ubeda, from the Organization Pueblos Unidos

  • Canada - Diocese of Montreal, Alessandra Santopadres, responsible for the Program for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers

  • Mexico - Comunicadores de la Frontera Sur Tapachula, Chiapas, David Tavernier

1 | Season Premiere - February

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The first program of the III season counted with the participation of Latin American broadcasters allied to the project connecting Toronto and four countries live and will be rebroadcast in the allied stations of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters - AMARC.

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Also participating are institutional partners:  IBVM from Spain and the Diocese of Toronto from Montreal through the office of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.

 

We introduced the season by talking about migration from Latin America to richer countries, the migration crisis, and the reality of migrant workers in Canada and Spain.

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Guests:

  • Spain - IVBM Spain, Marta Santos

  • Canada - Diocese of Montreal, Alessandra Santopadres, responsible for the Program for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers

  • El Salvador - AMARC, Alc, Diego Diego Hernández, Regional Coordination Team

  • Colombia - Radio Internacional Stereo, Melissa Coral

  • Honduras - Radio Progreso, Iolany Perez

  • Mexico - Radio Universidad de Guadalajara (RUDG), Victor Hugo Magaña, Manager

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