JIFORM Statement On 2020 Inter’l Migrants Day

PRESS STATEMENT ON INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS DAY 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. FROM THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE JOURNALISTS INTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR MIGRATION (JIFORM), LAGOS, NIGERIA.

As the world marks the International Migrants Day on December 18, 2020 to recognize the efforts, contributions and rights of migrants, the African Union (AU) has been admonished by the Journalists International Forum For Migration (JIFORM) to put a stop to the en-slavery of countless African women in the Middle East through the horrible Kafala System.

Kafala is a trade system in the Middle East that encourages the trading of migrants as slave workers in connivance with some countries that part with their female folks in exchange for money.

English | December 17, 2020

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