{"id":151836,"date":"2025-06-01T09:50:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T07:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cesie.org\/?post_type=project&p=151836"},"modified":"2025-11-30T11:38:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T10:38:03","slug":"host","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/cesie.org\/en\/project\/host\/","title":{"rendered":"HOST \u2013 Tackling Human Trafficking in the Hospitality sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Enhance the implementation of the 2024 Anti-Trafficking Directive and the 2021\u20132025 EU Strategy through a targeted pilot initiative in the hospitality sector, focusing on labour and sexual exploitation of third-country nationals.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Context<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Trafficking in human beings, in particular for labour and sexual exploitation, is a serious human rights violation that continues to affect thousands of people across Europe. The latest EUROSTAT statistics show a 41% increase in the number of victims registered in the EU in 2022 alone, with a worrying rise in cases related to labour exploitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hospitality sector, which includes accommodation, food services and tourism, employs millions of people across Europe. However, it is often characterised by precarious working conditions, a high rate of irregular employment and a significant presence of workers from third countries. These factors make it a sector at high risk of exploitation and trafficking, further aggravated by labour market shortages and weak control mechanisms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this context, HOST project was created to address the need to prevent exploitation and strengthen the protection and inclusion of victims by working directly with managers, employers and employees with a migration background in the hospitality sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project is guided by an evolving European legal framework that increasingly emphasises the fight against trafficking, in particular through the adoption of the EU Anti-Trafficking Strategy 2021-2025 and the revision of the EU Anti-Trafficking Directive 2024. These highlight the responsibility of public and private actors in recognising and combating exploitation in high-risk sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HOST therefore responds to the need for concrete, coordinated and multi-sectoral interventions that strengthen prevention, improve the identification of victims and promote sustainable and long-term pathways of support and inclusion through awareness-raising, training, direct support and advocacy activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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