Season III, 2024 - End Human Trafficking - A Commitment for All

 Enhancing cooperation to ensure safe, orderly, and regular migration is the responsibility of countries worldwide. This entails full respect for human and labour rights and the humane treatment of migrants, regardless of their migration status, as outlined in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM). The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) mark a common working pact to ensure no person or group of people is left behind.
Migrants are key actors in all dimensions of sustainable development. Through their work, remittances, and the links they build between countries, they reduce poverty, provide vital services, and support families and communities in their countries of origin, transit, and destination.​

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Guests:

• Canada - Diana Gallego, President of the Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR) and Executive Director of FCJ

• Spain - Maria Llinas, Fundation Kambia

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

• Spain - Marta Santos, IBVM Spain​​

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 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, Diocese of Montreal, Responsible for the Program for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers

• Spain - Marta Santos, IBVM Spain​

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A student from Mexico and a former student from Ecuador talk 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 - Indriani Molina, International Educational Advisor (Montreal)

• Canada - Alessandra Santopadre, Diocese of Montreal, Responsible for the Program for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers​

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Sex trafficking and exploitation are a reality that no one can deny-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, Diocese of Montreal, Responsible for the Program for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers

• Spain - Marta Santos - IBVM Spain.

• Honduras - Iolani Perez - Radio Progreso Honduras

• Honduras - Joaquín Mejía, Dr. Human Rights Researcher of ERIC Foundation (Equipo de Reflexión, Investigación y Comunicación)

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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, Diocese of Montreal, Responsible for the Program for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers

• Spain - Marta Santos - IBVM Spain

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Migrants without status live, work, study, consume, and have live 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, Diocese of Montreal, Responsible for the Program for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers

• Spain - Marta Santos - IBVM Spain

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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 - Marta Santos, IVBM Spain

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

• Spain - Maria Lopez , SERCAD Spain

• Canada - Fr. Enriquye Martinez, Director of Farm worker Program at Huron, ON

• Canada - Alberto Moreno, Former Temporary Migrant Worker at farm in Leamington

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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 - Marta Santos, IVBM Spain

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

• Canada - Eliana Jaramillo Restrepo, ALAC Montreal

• Spain - José Manuel Alonso Luís Manzo, SERCADE, Coordinator of human attention of Migrants.

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How do you prepare for the trip and arrival in the country where you will work?

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 - Marta Santos, IVBM Spain

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

• Spain - Pepa Torres Perez, Red de apoyo Interlavapies & Organizacion Territorio Domestico, Madrid

• El Salvador - Javier Ramón, Voz Publica ( Public Voice)

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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 - Marta Santos, IVBM Spain

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

• Spain -Macarena Ubeda, Pueblos Unidos Spain

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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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Guests:

• Spain - IVBM Spain, Marta Santos

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

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

• Colombia - Melissa Coral, Radio Internacional Stereo

• Honduras - Iolany Perez, Radio Progreso

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

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