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How the #UNODC is Fighting Human Trafficking during the pandemic How the #UNODC is Fighting Human Trafficking during the pandemic Written by Share: COLOMBO (News 1st); A recent regional expert group meeting for Asia-Pacific region hosted out of Vienna by the UN Office on Drugs & Crime (UNODC) represented a major milestone in forging fruitful Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) that improve the lives of vulnerable populations worldwide.  The event convened dozens on experts under the bann...

Millions of kidnapped children are imprisoned in underground tunnels, being sexually abused and tortured by a shadowy global cabal of paedophiles. That, at least, is some of the misinformation about child sex trafficking being spread on social media. You’ll also see such ideas being promoted at protests from Los Angeles to London, with hashtags such as #saveourchildren and #endchildtrafficking emblazoned on shirts and placards. The thought of a child being abused, exploited or trafficked for...

Covid-19 fueling rise in human trafficking, UN warns Thursday February 04 2021 Millions of women, children and men worldwide are out of work, out of school and without social support in the continuing Covid-19 crisis, leaving them at greater risk of human trafficking, official says. PHOTO | FILE | NMG Summary Poverty arising from lost jobs or other economic opportunities has, over the last one year, increased the pool of people most vulnerable to being trafficked. Advertisement The Trafficking...

Global Report on Trafficking in Persons - 2020 Format EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Victims are targeted when they are vulnerable and the COVID-19 economic recession will result in more people at risk of trafficking Female victims continue to be particularly affected by trafficking in persons. In 2018, for every 10 victims detected globally, about five were adult women and two were girls. About one third of the overall detected victims were children, both girls (19 per cent) and boys (15 per cent), while 2...

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 December 2020: The black market for human body parts is booming in the Middle East. A kidney now costs 262,000 dollars (131 million CFA francs); the heart costs 119,000 dollars (60 million CFA francs) and the liver costs 157,000 dollars (79 million CFA francs). Beware of fake foreign agencies promising to take you abroad to work.  They process your papers, pay your plane ticket and take you abroad pretending they will find you a job, but instead, they kill their vict...