Jane Duke
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@AusAmbPSHT
Australia's Ambassador to Counter Modern Slavery, People Smuggling and Human Trafficking & Senior Official Co-Chair of the Bali Process.
🇦🇺 remains committed to supporting 🇹🇭 in tackling modern slavery and trafficking in persons. We value the opportunity provided by 🇹🇭 3rd Modern Slavery Conference to hear from partners on issues including online scam trafficking, due diligence, and survivor-centred approaches.
Gender equality benefits everyone. On International Women’s Day, we recognise the leadership of our women Ambassadors, High Commissioners and colleagues – including those supporting Australia’s 24/7 crisis response efforts at this challenging time.
New @UNHumanRights report details grave abuses against hundreds of thousands of people trafficked into scam centres, documenting instances of torture, sexual abuse, forced abortions, food deprivation among other grave human rights violations. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…
@AusAmbGender Australia has supported more than 5,500 survivors of gender based violence in PNG, reached 63,000 people through prevention programs, granted 1,733 Women at Risk visas, and increased women’s participation in peacekeeping. Read the report here: dfat.gov.au/publications/s…
When someone is coerced or deceived into marriage for the purpose of exploitation, it can be a form of human trafficking. UNODC plays a key role in the global fight to #EndHumanTrafficking, including cases where trafficking occurs through forced or child marriage. Learn more:
As trafficking for forced criminality continues at unprecedented levels, supporting Member States to prevent trafficking into Southeast Asia’s cyber-scam centres is a priority for the RSO. This includes strengthening upstream prevention and building response capacity in source countries, including through engagement in key source regions such as East Africa—now one of the primary origin regions for individuals trafficked into cyber-scam centres. With most ASEAN visa-issuing processes for the region concentrated in Nairobi, the RSO and @FreedomCollab convened visa-issuing officers from 🇮🇩 Indonesia, 🇲🇾 Malaysia, 🇹🇭 Thailand to exchange insights on travel patterns from East Africa, discuss how deceptive online recruitment and false job offers are shaping outbound movements, and share emerging trends linked to cyber-scam centre operations. Discussions examined how trafficking risks may present within visa application and interview processes, including documentation inconsistencies, unclear or evolving travel narratives, third-party facilitation, and mismatches between stated purpose of travel and personal or employment backgrounds. Strengthening awareness of these indicators supports visa-issuing officers in more proactively evaluating visa applications for forced criminality risks. The session also included a survivor testimony of an East African individual who was trafficked into a cyber-scam centre. Case studies further supported officers to reflect on common trafficking scenarios between East Africa and Southeast Asia. With thanks to #UKInternationalDevelopment for their support for this project and for hosting the briefing at the residence of the British High Commissioner in Nairobi.
Stronger migration systems are built through alignment, action and shared responsibility. The Tour de Table session at the Fourth RSO Constructive Dialogue brings together diverse regional dialogues, #BaliProcess Member Organisations and partners to focus on how cooperation can deliver more resilient migration security and protection outcomes. Chaired by RSO Co-Manager (Australia) David Scott, the session features contributions from the Bali Process Senior Official Co-Chairs, alongside regional partners including the Budapest Process Secretariat International Centre for Migration Policy Development (@ICMPD), the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative against Trafficking (#COMMIT) Process, OSCE – The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, and the Intergovernmental Consultations on Migration, Asylum and Refugees (#ICG). Discussions focus on where regional processes can better align efforts, reduce duplication and translate dialogue into practical cooperation. Updates from @IOMAsiaPacific and @UNHCR on the Routes-Based Approach highlight how coordinated, route-focused action can strengthen responses to mixed movements and emerging risks. The session sets a clear direction for the Dialogue: building on what works, closing gaps together, and using regional platforms to strengthen collective action against increasingly complex global threats.
