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The United Nations (UN) is an international organization that was established in 1945 to promote international cooperation and address global challenges. It consists of 193 member states and a number of specialized agencies and programs, which work together to achieve its goals.
One of the UN’s key objectives is to promote and protect human rights, including the rights of victims of human trafficking. To this end, the UN has adopted several conventions and protocols that define human trafficking and provide guidelines for combating it.
The UN also works to raise awareness about human trafficking and to support efforts to prevent and prosecute it. This includes providing technical assistance and capacity-building to member states, and supporting organizations that work directly with victims of trafficking.
The UN also plays a key role in coordinating the international response to human trafficking. This includes working with other international organizations, such as the International Labour Organization and the World Bank, to develop and implement global strategies to combat trafficking.
Overall, the UN is a key player in the global fight against human trafficking, and its efforts are critical to protecting the rights of victims and holding traffickers accountable for their crimes.
TAMPA, Fla. – The Hillsborough County school district held a town hall panel discussion Monday focusing on raising awareness about the dangers of online human trafficking. The panel included parents, school board members, a high school principal, along with human trafficking advocates and survivors and was organized by the district’s Human Trafficking Task Force. Panelists…
This has been revealed by a global report on human trafficking released late last month. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 2022 report on human trafficking shows 52 women and girls were trafficked in Namibia between 2017 and 2020, while 43 men and boys were trafficked. Overall 95 Namibians were trafficked during…
Today, the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (PITF) met for the second time in the Biden-Harris Administration. A member of the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking also joined the meeting and spoke about the Council’s 2022 report, which includes insights and recommendations for how the Federal Government can…
SILVER SPRING (OSV News) — The Feb. 12 Super Bowl, which kicks off at 6:30 p.m., “sadly serves as a danger zone for sex trafficking, labor trafficking and domestic violence,” said the executive director of the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, based in the Washington suburb of Silver Spring. “An…
By Aurora Weiss VIENNA (IDN) — The COVID-19 pandemic has increased human trafficking using social networks and the Internet as a platform, Lead Author of the UNODC Global Reports on Trafficking in Persons, Fabricio Sarrica, told IDN. He was highlighting some salient aspects of the 2022 UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, the seventh…
On this 9th World Day of Prayer against human trafficking, the Pope calls on young people to fight. Send us the names of your loved ones who are sick or suffering. The Aleteia prayer network of 550 monasteries will take them to prayer for the World Day of the Sick. Click here to share your…
Right from under the noses of the British Home Office, hundreds of child refugees, seeking asylum in the United Kingdom, are being abducted and trafficked for all sorts of reasons. The British Home Office has been repeatedly cautioned by a multitude of agencies, about the dangers such vulnerable children faced, arriving unaccompanied from their homelands….
Large businesses operating in Washington state would be required to disclose efforts to eradicate human trafficking within their supply chains under a proposed Senate bill. SB 5541 would require every seller and manufacturer with more than $75 million of worldwide gross receipts to publicly display efforts to remove human trafficking and forced labor from its…
With eyes on Arizona this week, one organization has launched a campaign — It’s a Penalty — to raise awareness about a crisis: human trafficking. The numbers are staggering. Among the facts and figures from It’s A Penalty, which works collaboratively to end human trafficking, exploitation and abuse using major sports events as vehicles for…
PHOENIX — Alicia Tucker, a survivor of human trafficking and a mother, stood in front of a room full of individuals all fighting for the same thing: eradicating human trafficking. Tucker told her story to a crowd for the first time last week, recalling being 15 years old working at a hair salon and being…
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