is Co-Founder, ENGAGE, Inclusive Change Through Volunteering, a not-for-profit in Nepal.
Thousands of men, women and children fall victim each year to human trafficking, a serious crime and a grave violation of human rights. The 18-year-old girl (pictured) was taken to Almaty, Kazakhstan, and promised work as a housekeeper but forced to become a sex worker. Credit: UNICEF/UN045727/Pirozzi
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Apr 20 2021 (IPS) - The numbers are so staggering that is hardly imaginable striking a positive tone about the situation of child trafficking in Nepal and yet some positive developments are occurring here in a country that soon could be set to graduate from the group of least developing countries.
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Tackling Health Consequences of Human Trafficking in Ghana
TACOMA, Washington Ghana is a West African country with a population of more than 30 million people with a rapidly growing economy. Behind this economic growth, however, is a booming labor trafficking industry in sectors including fishing, agriculture, mining and domestic servitude. As more research is conducted on human trafficking, the impacts of the crime on physical health continue to be understudied, but Dr. Jody Clay-Warner and a team of researchers aims to fill these information gaps through research on the health consequences of human trafficking in Ghana.
Human Trafficking in Ghana
Human trafficking is defined by the United Nations as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payme