Human trafficking and law
Getty Images Women and girls, who are often themselves victims of human trafficking and are sexually exploited by criminal gangs, are being prosecuted and convicted for human trafficking-related crimes, according to a new UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report. The over-representation of women and girls as both victims and perpetrators has been a consistent theme to emerge from the UNODC’s Global Trafficking in Persons Reports, says Flinders University criminology PhD candidate Alexandra Baxter who contributed an Australian case study to the latest report. “From my research into Aust...
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