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Organised crime is a global phenomenon that involves criminal networks engaging in a range of illegal activities, including drug trafficking, extortion, and human trafficking. The latter involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to exploit vulnerable individuals for labor or sexual purposes.
Organised crime groups are often involved in human trafficking because it is a lucrative and low-risk activity. Traffickers can make significant profits from exploiting vulnerable individuals, and the clandestine nature of trafficking can make it difficult for law enforcement to detect and investigate.
To combat organised crime and human trafficking, it is important to understand the ways in which these issues intersect. This can involve improving intelligence gathering and sharing between law enforcement agencies, developing effective investigation and prosecution strategies, and providing support to victims of trafficking.
Organised crime and human trafficking are complex issues that require a coordinated and sustained response from a range of stakeholders, including government agencies, law enforcement, civil society organizations, and the private sector. By working together, we can help ensure that vulnerable individuals are protected from exploitation and that organised crime groups are brought to justice.
Non-Governmental Organisations and Nagpur Police have joined hands to spread awareness about preventing human trafficking and crime against women with the involvement of students as volunteers. The Young India Unchained (YIU) initiative for the prevention of human trafficking and crimes against women and children is launched by Alliance Against Centres of Trafficking (ACT), a coalition…
County lines is a term used to describe drug dealing networks, often run using a single telephone line, or “deal” line. Drugs are transported from cities to rural and suburban areas.
The Home Office has reclassified modern slavery as an immigration issue instead of a safeguarding concern in what Hope for Justice describes as a “highly regressive” move. It follows claims from the Home Secretary last week that modern slavery laws are being abused and “derailing the UK’s policy on illegal migration.” The Home Office has…
Although slavery was formally abolished more than 140 years ago in most countries, there still exists a modern slavery that feeds on vulnerability. It is enabled by unemployment, lack of education and other cultural and social factors, to which must be added the increasingly interlocking incidence of political and religious conflict, territorial displacement and humanitarian…
An Accra Circuit Court has remanded seven persons who allegedly trafficked two persons to Ghana under the pretext of securing them jobs. They are Vincent Osas, Anthony Kennedy, Godson Iyan Inye, Junior Ayala Ariyo, Desmond Johnson, Andrew Gabriel and Ebedebi Ayaye Friday. They have all pleaded not guilty to human trafficking, assault and participating in…
Note: A complete summary of today’s Third Committee meetings will be available on Tuesday, 4 October. Briefing DELPHINE SCHANTZ, of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), expressed her agency’s support for Member States in their fight against drugs, corruption, terrorism and organized crime, including crimes that affect the environment, and cybercrime. Championing…
TAIPEI: Taiwanese prosecutors on Friday (Sep 2) indicted nine suspects on human trafficking charges for allegedly luring 88 people to Cambodia to toil in online scam syndicates that have become a …
Security chief says existing laws are sufficient, but experts call for ‘bespoke’ trafficking legislation Authorities received 41 requests for help since January, set up task force only early this month Hong Kong lacks tough laws and an effective network with countries in the region to combat human trafficking scams, according to legal experts and analysts….
Italy has become the target of Chinese propaganda after an article on organ harvesting was published in the Italian weekly magazine Panorama. The Chinese Communist Party is aiming to penetrate democratic countries through its long arm, according to Marco Respinti’s article in Bitter Winter, a newspaper that advocates human rights and religious freedom. An article…
GENEVA (15 September 2022) – Minority communities in all regions of the world are subjected to contemporary forms of slavery, a UN expert said in a report presented to the Human Rights Council today. “Deep-rooted and systematic discrimination often resulting from historical legacies such as slavery, colonisation, systems of inherited status, and formalised and State-sponsored…
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