Global report on Trafficking in Persons 2024.

 

The Findings of this edition of the Global report on Trafficking in Persons 2024 show that most countries are detecting an increasing number of trafficking victims and obtaining more convictions after the downturn recorded in 2020. However, not all countries have returned to their pre-pandemic levels. Certain forms of trafficking such as forced labour, forced criminality and child trafficking are confirmed to be on the rise.

Trafficking in persons remains a global phenomenon affecting all countries, either as countries of recruitment or exploitation, the crime requires a combination of responses at all levels: global, regional, national and sub-national. While there has been great progress in setting up national legislations, challenges remain that require adequate operational responses to address prevention, protection and prosecutions for a crime that data proves evolves and adapts to changes in society. Through the Pact for the Future, the international community has renewed its commitment to ''intensify international, regional, and national efforts to take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labor, end modern slavery and trafficking in persons, especially women and children, and eliminate all forms of child labor" (The Pact for the Future). The implementation of the following recommendations may serve to guide those efforts in the context of the latest trafficking trends.