P A C I F I C W I N
Pacific Regional Focal Point on Migration
Pacific Migrants & Pacific Statelessness & Pacific Diaspora
& Pacific Climate Change Migrants & Pacific Against Trafficking Humans
Pacific in the Past
Most, if not all, Pacificwin members hail from backgrounds of human trafficking.
It will be an area of future research development for us.
Here is a brief history of Human Trafficking/Trafficking in Persons in the Pacific.

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Byrne took 253 recruits; by September, they were working in Peru as plantation workers and domestic household servants.

However few Islanders escaped some form of physical or mental violence. Abuse of the Islanders included being beaten, being deprived of food or leisure time, medical neglect and sometimes separation of married couples. In the late 19th century trade unions in Australia were fighting for workers’ rights but the Pacific Islander workers of Queensland were banned from organising as a group.

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