⑦ In 2007, there were 26 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in at least 52 countries as a result of conflict compared to 24.5 million IDPs in 52 countries the year before.12) ⑧ In 2007, the global number of refugees reached an estimated 11.4 million persons.13) Migration is a broad general concept and trafficking is a subset or category of migration. Migration is a process of movement of people from one place to another (in case of international migration, one country to another) in order to take up employment or establish residence or change their place of residence for various reasons.14) According to Article 2. 1 of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (MWC), 1990,15) the term "migrant worker" refers to a person who is to be engaged, is engaged or has been engaged in a remunerated activity in a State of which he or she is not a national. The Preamble of the MWC also states that “the human problems involved in migration are even more serious in the case of irregular migration and convinced therefore that appropriate action should be encouraged in order to prevent and eliminate clandestine movements and trafficking in migrant workers, while at the same time assuring the protection of their fundamental human rights.” The MWC seeks to prevent and eliminate, “the clandestine movements and trafficking in migrant workers” and the employment of migrant workers in irregular situations. Migrant women who are looking for better economic opportunities are often vulnerable to trafficking. According to ILO report, 2010, Trafficking constitutes the antithesis of any notion of decent work. The consequences are that: “the trafficking victim will be at the mercy of the traffickers and, far from being able to find work to begin to build a better future, will be forced to labour to pay off debts, as a result of fear of disclosure, violence or reprisals. This labour is likely to be performed without a contract, time off, insurance, access to health or social security services or pay, and often for long hours in the kind of work too often reserved for low‐skilled migrant workers: in sweatshops, agriculture, construction work, domestic service, food processing or 12) Norwegian Refugee Council – Internal Displacement Monitoring Center's Internal Displacement: Global Overview of Trends and Developments in 2007, http://www.internal‐displacement.org 13) Does not include some 4.6 million Palestinian refugees under the responsibility of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' 2007 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum‐seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons, http://www.unhcr.org/statistics 14) Md. Shahidul Haque, “Ambiguities and Confusions in the Migration‐Trafficking Nexus: A Development Challenge,” Regional Seminar on the Social Implications of International Migration, 24‐26 August 2005, Bangkok, p.4. 15) Has 25 ratifications (all sending countries) and entered into force on 1 July 2003 and will have a treaty monitoring body to compliance to it by ratifying states. 6 ❙ Seoul International Conference Against Human Trafficking in Migrant Women