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– Despite progress during the past 20 years, trafficking in persons, particularly children, remains a high-profit, low-risk crime and a more concerted effort is needed to fight it, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children (SRSG) said today.
Marking the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, António Vitorino, IOM’s Director General, and Najat Maalla M’jid, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative, made the following statement:
Today, one year after the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, we commend States on the progress made in the fight against trafficking in persons. Most countries now have and are implementing laws against human trafficking. Greater efforts are being made to apprehend and pr
Friday, 30 July 2021, 6:45 pm
UN Secretary General António Guterres on
Thursday urged States to take action against human
trafficking, where a third of all victims are
children.
Highlighting how the COVID pandemic
has pushed as many as 124 million more people into extreme
poverty, the UN chief insisted that “many millions” have
been left vulnerable to the scourge.
Half of victims
in low-income countries are children, Mr. Guterres noted,
just ahead of the World
Day Against Trafficking in Persons, adding that most are
trafficked for forced labour.
“
Criminals
everywhere are using technology to identify, control and
exploit vulnerable people,” the UN chief said,
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