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STORY: UN / TRAFFICKING PERSONS REPORT
TRT: 01:48
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 21 DECEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
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21 DECEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristiina Kangaspunta, Chief, Anti-human Trafficking Unit, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC):
“Trafficking in persons is happening everywhere, and actually the victims who are trafficked, they could be anybody. They could be women, they could be children, they could be men, and girls and boys. And this brings me to the point that I am absolutely sure that every single person in this room has seen a trafficking in persons victim. Actually, it is not happening in somewhere there, it’s happening here, and we are all involved in trafficking in persons.”
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristiina Kangaspunta, Chief, Anti-human Trafficking Unit, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC):
“Traffickers, they target those who are fleeing the wars, refugees, and we, for example, saw an increase in the number of Syrians victims during the recent years.”
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristiina Kangaspunta, Chief, Anti-human Trafficking Unit, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC):
“Armed groups can be themselves creating trafficking in persons. In some areas there are – specifically in Africa, but also in other areas - children are recruited and abducted to be child soldiers, and then we also have the sad stories of some of the armed groups who are abducting women for forced marriage, domestic work, and sexual slavery, and they also abduct boys and girls for different forms of forced labour.”
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Children make up almost a third of all human trafficking victims worldwide, according to a report released today (21 Dec) by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Additionally, women and girls comprise 71 per cent of human trafficking victims, the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons states.
At a press conference in New York for the release of the report, the chief of the anti-human trafficking unit of UNODC, Kristiina Kangaspunta, said trafficking victims “could be anybody. They could be women, they could be children, they could be men, and girls and boys.”
The report found that while women and girls tend to be trafficked for marriages and sexual slavery, men and boys are typically exploited for forced labour in the mining sector, as porters, soldiers and slaves. While 28 per cent of detected trafficking victims worldwide are children, in regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa, and Central America and the Caribbean children comprise 62 and 64 per cent of victims, respectively.
This year's report includes a thematic chapter focusing on the connections between trafficking in persons, migration and conflict.
Kangaspunta said traffickers “target those who are fleeing the wars, refugees, and we, for example, saw an increase in the number of Syrians victims during the recent years.”
She also noted that “armed groups can be themselves creating trafficking in persons.”
In some areas, she said, “children are recruited and abducted to be child soldiers, and then we also have the sad stories of some of the armed groups who are abducting women for forced marriage, domestic work, and sexual slavery, and they also abduct boys and girls for different forms of forced labour.”
Data included in the report revealed that trafficking in persons and regular migration flows broadly resemble each other for some destination countries in different parts of the world.
Factors that increase vulnerability to human trafficking during the migration process include the presence of transnational organized crime in the country of origin, and a person's socio-economic profile.
