Regional Support Office of the Bali Process

05/08/2026

🫱🏼‍🫲🏽Countering trafficking in persons takes a whole-of-society effort. From border agencies and airlines to banks, tech platforms, and civil society, each sector can play a role in preventing exploitation.

💡The International Border Management and Technologies Association ( ) webinar on Combatting Human Trafficking, held on , brought together 100 participants and speakers from the RSO, the UK Border Force, the UK National Economic Crime Centre/National Crime Agency, the IOM - UN Migration, Marinus Analytics, and SITA to discuss how different sectors can work together to prevent trafficking in persons.

The RSO shared progress and insights from recent capability development initiatives supporting Member States with countering trafficking in persons, including work to enhance border and migration management, victim identification and referral, information sharing, and cross-border cooperation. 🌏

Discussions also touched on the continued proliferation of trafficking for forced criminality into cyber-scam centres, where victims are lured by fraudulent job offers, moved across borders, and coerced into cyber-enabled crime.⛓️

🔎A key message: early intervention requires cooperation well beyond traditional counter-trafficking actors and joint responses that keep pace with emerging trends.

03/08/2026

🌊Maritime people smuggling networks across South and Southeast Asia are evolving rapidly, exploiting new technologies, shifting routes and increasingly blurred lines between regular and irregular travels to move people undetected.

🌏For Bali Process Member States, keeping pace with these changes is central to promoting safe and orderly migration and disrupting criminal networks.

🫱🏼‍🫲🏽To strengthen the region’s collective response, the RSO convened a two-day Focus Group Discussion on Irregular Maritime Ventures and People Smuggling Futures in South and Southeast Asia.

🔗Learn more:

RSO 2023 Constructive Dialogue brought together some 120 senior officials and representatives across 28 Bali Process Member States and Organisations, 11 Observer States and Organisations and 13 regional partner organisations representing expert views and experience from NGOs, CSOs, and the private s...

31/07/2026

Not every overseas job offer is what it seems 🚩 Rushed decisions. Secrecy. Salary that feels too good to be true. Any one of these red flags is a sign to stop and check.

Verify before you fly 👉 rso.baliprocess.net/what-the-job-ad-isnt-showing-you

30/07/2026

Not every warning sign is obvious, but knowing what to look for can make all the difference.

🚩Recruiters who avoid your questions.
🚩Pressure to decide quickly.
🚩Suggestions to travel on a tourist visa for work.
🚩Promises that seem too good to be true.

These can all be warning signs that something isn't right.
Trust your instincts, and always take steps to verify that your recruiter and employer are legitimate.

🔗Visit https://buff.ly/nfcsXqk for practical steps to check overseas job offers before you travel.

Share this with someone who may be looking for opportunities overseas.

30/07/2026

🚨 Trafficking into scam centres is going global.​

Ahead of , IOM launched a new regional strategy to protect victims & boost cross-border action.​

🔗 https://shorturl.at/TGrRD

30/07/2026

30/07/2026

30/07/2026

The workers trapped inside cyber-scam compounds in Southeast Asia were not careless.

The offers looked real, the interviews felt real, and the job ads they responded to looked professional. While this trafficking model first took root in Southeast Asia, similar scam operations are increasingly emerging in other regions. 🌏

That is what makes this form of trafficking so difficult to prevent. On this World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, the RSO, Freedom Collaborative, and IOM - UN Migration supported by UK International Development are launching the campaign 'What the job ad isn't showing you' to raise awareness and support prevention efforts towards trafficking for forced criminality. ⛓️

The campaign shows jobseekers how to check an overseas offer before accepting it.

✅Is the recruiter licensed?
✅Does the contract exist in writing, in a language the worker understands?
✅Does the visa match the job?

Through six simple verification checks, most taking only minutes, jobseekers can identify warning signs before committing to overseas work, helping reduce the risk of deceptive recruitment into trafficking for forced criminality.

💻The campaign webpage brings together practical tools to help people assess overseas job offers, including warning signs of fraudulent recruitment, step-by-step verification guidance, official recruiter registries and support services. Developed with trafficking survivors, frontline organisations and migration experts, it also provides resources for those who may already be in vulnerable situations.

The campaign launches today and will continue over the coming months. If your organisation works with jobseekers, migrant workers or diaspora communities, we encourage you to share these resources through your own networks. One post, one training session or one referral could help someone verify an opportunity before it becomes exploitation.

We also welcome organisations interested in sharing, adapting or contributing additional trusted resources to strengthen this cross-regional prevention effort. 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽

🔗Explore the campaign: https://lnkd.in/grTmzsy2

27/07/2026

🚨Three days left to apply!

Interested in building your experience in event coordination and stakeholder engagement in an international environment?

The RSO is looking for an Associate Programme Officer to support event coordination and implementation, research and reporting, and stakeholder engagement—helping ensure programme delivery remains well-organised and responsive to Member State and partner needs.

📅Apply by 30 July (GMT +7): https://buff.ly/qwcwslv

🚨New job alert!

Interested in building your experience in event coordination and stakeholder engagement in an international environment?

The RSO is looking for an Associate Programme Officer to support event coordination and implementation, research and reporting, and stakeholder engagement—helping ensure programme delivery remains well-organised and responsive to Member State and partner needs.

📅Apply by 30 July (GMT +7): https://buff.ly/qwcwslv

27/07/2026

AS the Immigration Department marks 104 years of safeguarding Malaysia's borders, it is embarking on what could be its biggest transformation yet.