Animus Association Foundation conducted a national campaign for the prevention of trafficking in human beings for labour exploitation
For a third consecutive year Animus Association Foundation” is conducting a national campaign for the prevention of trafficking in human beings for labour exploitation of Bulgarians abroad. The initiative is under the umbrella of the “Bulgarian – Swiss Joint Efforts for Providing Immediate and Unconditional Protection of Trafficked Persons and Preventing Trafficking in Human Beings” project, financed by the Swiss-Bulgarian Cooperation Programme. The objective of this campaign is to draw the attention of people looking for opportunities to work abroad to the risks of being deceived and involved in human trafficking situations and exploitation.
This year together with our partners from New Moment New Ideas Company, Masters of the broadcasting and Rabota.bg, we used a more provocative approach to draw the attention of people looking for seasonal or permanent positions abroad to the risks of becoming involved in a trafficking situation for labour exploitation as well as to show them how to spot dangerous and misleading offers.
The campaign is ralized with the support of:
The campaign is implemented with the media support of the „Masters of the Broadcasting” TV show and in official partnership of Rabota.bg, the National Commission for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, the Employment Agency, the Agency for Social Assistance, Directorate General “Border Police” and Bulgarian Posts Offices.
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Visions of the campaign:
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Page of the campign:
http://animusassociation.org/zelen-haiver/
Look out for the monkey business
You are looking for a job abroad because you need more money? Do you know that work abroad may turn into trap. You can be misled, cheated out of your money and exploited and thus became a victim of human trafficing?! When in need people often underestimate the risks and ignores the threats.
You don’t want to be involved in this monkey business, right?
It is up to you to avoid fraud and exploitation!
How misleading work ads look like?
Take a look at this job offer!
- High remuneration. Sounds enticing! But do you really believe that anyone without qualification can receive 130 euro per day?! The daily rate for non-qualified workforce in EU countries is between 20 and 90 euro in the sectors of agriculture, construction, services and domestic work (depending of the country and the sector).
- No skills and knowledge required. So this means that anyone can do the job, including you! Each job requires some knowledge and skills, as well as some experience. It is very suspicious if there are no requirements, at all. This can mean that people might be recruited for the wrong reasons.
- You can only contact the employer by email and this email is in one of the most popular web platforms for personal email. How convenient! No phone and address of the company?! This might be a sign that such a company does not exist and someone with the wrong intentions represents him/herself for employer. Someone who counts on you to see and apply for the job and then to misuse you and exploit you.
- The job is collecting green caviar. How interesting! Did you check if there is such a thing like green caviar? Because there no such thing as green caviar, as well as no blue strawberries and yellow blueberries.
Never respod to such job offers, if you don’t want to be trapped, beaten, tortured and forced to work without payment.
How to recognize dangerous job offers
Check carefully the job offers for abroad in order to prevent being misled, deceived or involved in human trafficking for the purposes of labour exploitation. It is not too hard to notice the deception:
- The job offer provides only a telephone number/email address which is not a corporate one.
- The intermediary company requires money for transportation.
- The company is not registered in the Employment Agency Register of Intermediaries.
- You are not provided with the address or contact information of the employer abroad.
- You are not given a labour contract or the one you have is in a foreign language.
- They do not give you a job description.
- They do not provide you with the papers for taxes paid to institutions, etc.
- They insist on taking your personal documents.
- Accommodation conditions are not confirmed by the employer or the intermediary company.
Human trafficing for labour exploitation is happening more often than you can imagine especially in EU countries where there is a larger demand for low wages and unskilled workforce.
The deceivers are very often people from your close circle of friends and family, people you trust.
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Call us on the FREE Hot Line One call can prevent many troubles!
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We can provide you with information about the risks when taking up a job abroad; we can provide consulting/counseling and together we can assess whether the job offer is dangerous. We can check if the intermediary company is rel and we can point you out to the relevant institution where you can report if somebody is voilating labour rights or is exploiting you.
If you are involved in traffic and labour exploitation, if you are not being paid and you live in miserable conditions, give us a call so we can help you!
Call us before you leave abroad to work
BULGARIAN AUTHORITIES FOR LABOUR AND SOCIAL SERVICES ABROAD:
Animus Association FoundationTel: 02 983 52 05 animus@animusassociation.org |
National Commission Of Combating Traffic In Human BeingsTel: 02 807 80 50 office@antitraffic.government.bg |
International Organisation For MigrationHotline: 02 93 94 777 iomsofia@iom.int |
General Labour Inspectorate Executive AgencyHotline: 0700 17 670 |
Employment AgencyTel: 02 980 87 19 az@az.government.bg |
BULGARIAN AUTHORITIES FOR LABOUR AND SOCIAL SERVICES ABROAD:
For Austria and SwitzerlandBozhidara Stankova – Bozhilova, Head of Office Tel.: +43 (0) 1 503 2354, +43 (0) 1 505 31 13; e-mail: social@embassybulgaria.at (Telephone counseling: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 13am to 3pm; Reception hours: Tuesday and Thursday from 15:30 to 17:30) The Office is based in the Bulgarian Embassy in Austria (Vienna) |
For the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland:Vasil Asenov, Head of Office тел./факс: +44 207 584 1960; тел.: +44 20 7581 3144; The Office is based in the UK Embassy in London (London) |
For GermanyRadi Futekov, Head of Office тел.: +49 (0)30 206 44 580; e-mail: sozialpolitik@botschaft-bulgarien.de The Office is based in the Bulgarian Embassy in Germany (Berlin) |
For Greece and Cyprus:Dimitar Bojilov, СТСВ – Атина и Никозия Head of Labour and Social Affairs Office Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria Greece, Athens – Paleo Psychico, 33A Stratigou Kallari st. 154 52 Tel: 0030 210 67 44 680 Fax: 0030 210 67 44 682 e-mail: social_bgembass@abv.bg Embassy e-mail: bulgaria@cytanet.com.cy |
For Spain:Elitza Slavcheva – Borisova, Head Of Office tel.: 0034 913 455 761 (в. 215), 0034 918 511 603; mobile: 0034 673 913 500; e-mail: eslavcheva@yahoo.com The Office is based in the Bulgarian Embassy in Spain (Madrid) |
DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIONS (EMBASSIES) OF BULGARIA ABROAD:
Austria (Vienna):address: 1040 Wien, Schwindgasse 8; тел.: +43 1 505 31 13, +43 1 505 64 44; e-mail: amboffice@embassybulgaria.at; konsulat@embassybulgaria.at; Embassy.Vienna@mfa.bg |
Belgium (Brussels):address: Ave. Moscicki 7,1180 Bruxelles; тел.: +32 2 374 47 88, + 32 473 981 042; e-mail: Embassy.Brussels@mfa.bg Consular Service: Rue Copernic, 4C Bruxelles 1180, Uccle; тел.: +32 2 374 59 63; |
Great Britain (London):address: 186-188 Queen’s Gate, London SW7 5HL; тел.: +44 (0)20 7581 3144; +44 (0)20 7584 9400; + 4475813144, + 4475849400; Consular Service : +44 (0)20 75893736; e-mail: Embassy.London@mfa.bg; consular@bulgarianembassy.org.uk |
Germany (Berlin)address: Mauerstrasse 11, 10117 Berlin; тел.: +4930 201 0922, +4930 201 0923, +4930 201 0924, +4930 201 0925, +4930 201 0926; Еmergency phone: 0049 176 12299190; Consular Service +49 176 122 99 190; e-mail: Embassy.Berlin@mfa.bg; konsul@botschaft-bulgarien.de |
Greece (Athens):address: Greece, 15452 Athens, 33-A Stratigou Kallari Str., Paleo Psychico; tel.: +30 2106748 106; +30 2106748 105; +30 2106748 107; +30 2106748 108 +30 6937 096 220, +30 210 67 48 105,6,7, Еmergency phone +30 693 70 96 220; e-mail: Embassy.Athens@mfa.bg; embassbg@otenet.gr |
Ireland (Dublin):address: 22 Burlington Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4; tel.: +353 1 660 32 93; +353 1 660 30 22; +353 86 8167497; e-mail: Embassy.Dublin@mfa.bg |
Spain (Madrid):address: Travesía de Santa María Magdalena 15, 28016 Madrid; tel.: +34 913 455 761, +34 913 456 651, +34 913 597 611; + 34 913 455 761, + 34 913 456 651; e-mail: Embassy.Madrid@mfa.bg |
Italy (Rome):address: Via Pietro Paolo Rubens, 21, 00197 ROMA; tel.: +39 6 322 46 40; +39 6 322 46 43; + 39 06 322 46 40; + 39 06 322 46 43; e-mail: Embassy.Roma@mfa.bg |
Cyprus (Nicosia):address: 13, Konstantinou Paleologou, 2406, Engomi, Nicosia; tel.: +357 22 67 27 40; +357 22 67 24 86; from 14:00 to 08:00.: 00 357 97 77 79 45; e-mail: Embassy.Nicosia@mfa.bg |
The Kingdom of the Netherlands (The Hague):address: The Netherlands, The Hague, Duinroosweg 9, 2597 KJ Den Haag; tel.: +31 70 350 30 51; + 31657448073; e-mail: Embassy.Hague@mfa.bg |
Poland (Warsaw):address: Al. Ujazdowskie 33/35, 00-540 Warszawa / Poland; tel.: +48 22 629 40 71; +48 22 629 40 72; +48 22 629 40 73; +48 22 629 40 74; +48 22 629 40 75; + 48 22 629 40 71/72; e-mail: Embassy.Warsaw@mfa.bg; Consular.Warsaw@mfa.bg |
Portugal (Lisbon):address: Rua do Sacramento a Lapa, 31, 1200-792 Lisboa, Portugal; tel.: +351 213 976 364; +351 213 976 367; +351 933 611 337; e-mail: Embassy.Lisbon@mfa.bg |
Hungary (Budapest):address: бул. Андраши № 115, 1062 Будапеща, Унгария; tel.: +36 1 322 08 24; +36 1 322 08 36; +36 1 342 37 38; + 36 20 534 4559; e-mail: Embassy.Budapest@mfa.bg |
Czech Republic Prague):address: Praha 1, ul. Krakovska 6; tel.: +420 2222 12 011; +420 222 211 258; + 420 774 790 991; Consular Service: +420222 211 727; +420222 210 229; e-mail: Embassy.Prague@mfa.bg |
Switzerland (Bern):address: Bern 3005, Bernastrasse 02-04; tel.: +41 31 351 14 55, +41 31 351 14 56; +41 798243822; e-mail: Embassy.Bern@mfa.bg |
Kingdom of Sweden (Stockholm):address: Karlavägen 29, 11431 Stockholm, Sverige; tel.: +46 8 20 25 27, +46 8 723 09 38; +46 707797 155; Consular Service: +46 8 20 67 13; e-mail: Embassy.Stockholm@mfa.bg, bg.embassy@telia.com; bg.embassy_consular@telia.com |