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Harvest Justice
Attend a public reading of our stage production on Saturday, June 7, 2025.
Migrant Workers Fight Back: Solutions for Migrant Justice
Our report from the National Migrant Worker Event in November 2023, Edmonton.
The Call for Open Work Permits Now is Gaining Wider Support!
Open Work Permits Now CampaignFor Immediate Release- January 15, 2024 83 academics and 30 Christian faith organizations support the call for Open Work Permits NOW.
The Collaborative Network to End Exploitation is a collaboration of faith based organizations, community groups and individuals working to raise awareness about the spectrum of exploitation of human beings. Our goal is to inspire action for structural and societal changes.
We are committed to working from an anti-oppression framework in which we strive to be supportive allies, to root our work in the voices and experiences of people with lived experience, and to ensure that our actions do not negatively impact other marginalized groups.
The Spectrum of Exploitation
Exploitation exists on a spectrum.
Labour Violations
These violations exist in terms of worker safety and employment.
They include but aren’t limited to: unsafe conditions, violence, sexual abuse, excessive hours, withheld wages and unpaid labour.
Human Rights Violations
Human rights are breached when individuals experience discrimination, harassment, slavery, isolation, confinement and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
This can happen to migrant workers or exist in situations like forced begging and marriage.
Criminal Code Violations
Employers commit a crime when they take and withhold a worker’s passport and identification, practice fraud and extortion, make threats, or subject their workers to violence and/or harassment.
Human Trafficking
Exploitation violates areas of the criminal code that are specific to human trafficking when there is punishment, threats of deportation or towards workers’ families, forced prostitution and/or psychological control of migrant workers.
Labour Violations
These violations exist in terms of worker safety and employment.
They include but aren’t limited to: unsafe conditions, violence, sexual abuse, excessive hours, withheld wages and unpaid labour.
Human Rights Violations
Human rights are breached when individuals experience discrimination, harassment, slavery, isolation, confinement and other cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment.
This can happen to migrant workers or exist in situations like forced begging and marriage.
Criminal Code Violations
Employers commit a crime when they take and withhold a worker’s passport and identification, practice fraud and extortion, make threats, or subject their workers to violence and/or harassment.
Human Trafficking
Exploitation violates areas of the criminal code that are specific to human trafficking when there is punishment, threats of deportation or towards workers’ families, forced prostitution and/or psychological control of migrant workers.