The NZ Human Rights Commission and Ministry of Pacific Peoples invite participants to a targeted workshop regarding the exploitation of Pacific migrants to New Zealand. This is in response to the high number of Pacific migrant workers working in Recognised Seasonal Worker schemes and the increasing number of Pacific Peoples being victims of human trafficking and worker exploitation in New Zealand.

Key speakers include representatives from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Trafficking in Persons and Pacifica Labour and Skills team, a NZ industry body that employs Pacific workers, Pacific migrant workers and the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.

This workshop aims to bring together key government agencies, unions, Pacific leaders and workers and NGO’s to collaboratively discuss how to improve the working conditions for Pacific Peoples in New Zealand including recruitment from Pacific Islands to New Zealand. Part of the discussion will include future collaboration to help address Pacific worker exploitation and human trafficking.

This event should be of interest to Pacific Peoples, industry representatives that employ seasonal workers and all people interested in improving the working conditions for Pacific Migrant workers in New Zealand.

This event is limited to 50 people and RSVP's are essential.