World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

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As children are increasingly detected among victims of trafficking, national authorities should ensure that child protection services, including care facilities, are sensitized and equipped to detect and refer cases of child exploitation and pay particular attention to children’s vulnerabilities to being trafficked. As the link between child labour and harmful practices such as forced and earl\ marriage that lead to trafficking in children is increasingly established, the international community should reinvigorate campaigns to end child labour in all its forms (SDG 8.7) and to eliminate child, early and forced marriage (SDG 5.3) as well as support the adoption of national legal frameworks to address these issues. Trafficking of girls for the purpose of sexual exploitation is recording an alarming increase in many regions of the world. The international community and national authorities should increase efforts to prevent this form of trafficking, to ensure victim-centred and trauma...

  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 person s 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 renewe...