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Lack of sustainable employment and safe shelter has exposed even more people to trafficking or abuse by their employers.

Tsigereda, a 25-year-old Ethiopian, has become a leader for migrants suffering from exploitation and abuse at the hands of their employers. 'Do you know how many girls are committing suicide? Imagine.' [Muse Mohammed/IOM]

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Fleeing Venezuela, caminantes travel hundreds of kilometres by foot to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile and beyond.

Venezuelans cross the Puente Internacional Simón Bolívar, the busiest border point between Venezuela and Colombia’s Department of Norte de Santander. Approximately 50,000 Venezuelans cross into Colomb

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Healthcare workers in DR Congo continue to educate and treat people, trying to prevent further spread of the virus.

Petit Barrière is one of two border points connecting the densely populated city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with Rwanda. More than 65,000 people cross the Rwanda-DRC border here d

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