World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
In the lead up to World Day Against Trafficking in Persons which is today, we at Stop Slavery have produced a short series - 'Some facts you may be unaware of':
In the lead up to World Day Against Trafficking in Persons which is today, we at Stop Slavery have produced a short series - 'Some facts you may be unaware of':
Fact 1 of 3:
Young girls are exploited in forced labour around the world. Peruvian girls are forced to make bricks in the hot sun; in Pakistan, debt bondage traps girls in carpet-making factories; in Ethiopia, girls from rural areas are exploited in domestic servitude; and traffickers in Malawi force girls to labour in the agricultural sector.
Day 2 of 3:
In countries that lack formal procedures to identify trafficking victims among vulnerable populations—including migrant labourers, those without identity documents, seasonal employees, and women in prostitution—law enforcement may fail to identify victims and instead penalise them for crimes committed as a result of being subjected to trafficking.
Day 3 of 3:
In the early 1980s a new form of human trafficking, a global trade in kidneys from living persons to supply the needs and demands of ‘transplant tourists’, emerged in the Middle East, Latin America and Asia. The vulnerable continue to be exploited around the world for this purpose.