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South America is a region that has seen significant human trafficking activity, particularly in countries such as Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. Trafficking in South America often involves forced labor, particularly in the mining and agricultural sectors, as well as sex trafficking. Many trafficking victims in the region are from neighboring countries, such as Venezuela, and are lured into exploitation with promises of employment and a better life. Some traffickers also use debt bondage to keep their victims enslaved, charging exorbitant fees for food, accommodation, and transportation that the victim is unable to pay off. Additionally, South America serves as a transit point for trafficking victims from other parts of the world, particularly Africa and Asia, who are being transported to North America and Europe.
For eight months, Julio worked as a landscaper in Western Massachusetts, hauling rocks, digging ditches and pulling weeds about 70 hours a week, earning less than two dollars an hour. At night, tired and hungry, the Guatemalan immigrant would be driven back to his employer’s suburban home, where he would head down to the basement…
According to the United Nations Global Report on Trafficking in Persons for 2022, the number of people detected as trafficked dropped by 11 percent last year. While this is the first decline in 20 years, one of the report’s authors said it isn’t necessarily a cause for celebration. “We have not really seen a decrease…
To mark National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, the U.S. Office For Victims Of Crime (OVC) celebrated the 20th Anniversary of its Anti-Trafficking Programs on Thursday. The event highlighted the theme of Collaboration, Transformation, and Impact and how necessary grant funding has been for fighting human trafficking. “We will continue to bring the full force of…
UNITED NATIONS: Women continue to comprise the largest share of trafficking victims in South Asia, a new UN report has said. In 2020, however, more men were detected as victims of trafficking in the region compared to previous years, said the report prepared by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The ‘Global Report…
VIENNA : For the first time in 20 years, the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in a decline in the number of detected human trafficking victims as there were fewer opportunities for traffickers to operate and some trafficking forms were less likely to be detected, a UN report has revealed. The number of trafficking victims identified globally…
The United Nations Security Council votes to adopt a resolution to renew the authorization of vessel inspection and seizure off the coast of Libya to curb migrant smuggling and human trafficking at UN Headquarters in New York, on Sept. 29, 2021. (Ariana Lindquist/UN Photo/Handout via Xinhua) In addition to reducing opportunities for human traffickers to…
Human trafficking includes the use of force, fraud, or coercion to get some type of labor or commercial sex act. Every year, thousands or millions of men, women, and children are trafficked worldwide – including most developing countries like (the United States) so that’s why there is a need to consider this problem and find…
In this regard, the police agents rescued 130 victims of human trafficking who were subject to forced labour and sexual exploitation, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports. “In the “Turquesa IV” operation, carried out between November 28 and December 2, police agencies from 32 countries, coordinated by the OIPC-INTERPOL, carried out actions against criminal networks dedicated to recruiting…
Gardai said they are stepping up efforts to tackle human trafficking across the country, after it carried it out two days of action targeting crime gangs. Properties in Dublin, Waterford, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Longford, Galway, Kildare, Donegal and Louth were searched. As part of the operation, 46 people were identified as having allegedly purchased sexual…
On the border between Colombia and Panama, where migrants wait to make their way through the dense and sometimes deadly jungle of the Darien Gap, Americans from the Department of Homeland Security are teaming up with Colombian National Police to take down human smugglers before they can lead migrants north. Migrants camp along the beaches…
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