Armed conflict puts children at an increased risk of grave violations while their risk of being trafficked similarly increases, including in transitional periods, a new UN study has revealed.
What’s it really like to be a victim of child trafficking? The founders of non-profit, Street Art for Mankind, that fights child trafficking using art from around the globe, are trying to provide the answer.
The exhibit, called “UN-ji,” made its way to UN headquarters in New York last month, bringing art, sounds, and smells, to help visitors gain insight into the issue and contribute to ending trafficking for some 150 million victims worldwide.
For this latest edition of our UN News Lid is On podcast, Natalie Hutchison went along to find out more.
Just over a quarter of people trafficked worldwide are children, according to latest figures from the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
Marking the 2018 World Day against Trafficking in Persons this Monday, the UN drugs and crime-fighting agency, UNODC, is highlighting the urgency of acting “as soon as possible” to prevent a crime that claims more than 20,000 identified victims each year; a number that represents the “tip of the iceberg”, with many still unaccounted for.
Family is assumed to be a protective structure, but this is not always the case.
That’s the view of Harry Cook, Data Management & Research Specialist for the UN Migration Agency (IOM) in Geneva, speaking in reference to new statistics that show child victims of human trafficking are often coerced by family members.
Family members are linked to nearly half of all identified cases of child trafficking, new data released on Tuesday by the UN Migration Agency, IOM, has revealed.
It finds that family involvement in this crime is up to four times higher than in incidents of adult trafficking.
Dianne Penn reports.
The statistics are based on information about nearly 12,000 survivors of trafficking.
An 18-year old Indian woman who was trafficked as a child says her personal experience motivated her to fight for the rights of other young girls.
Anoyara Khatun from a village in West Bengal, India recently spoke about her advocacy work at the UN in New York.
According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), despite the fact that more than 90 per cent of countries have laws which criminalise trafficking, there has been an increase in the number of young girls being sold across borders.
Priyanka Shankar has been speaking to Ms Khatun about her work.
A compelling television drama produced with United Nations support about a Lao teenage girl who is trafficked abroad, where she suffers both physical and sexual abuse, had its national premiere on Lao Television today as part of a campaign to warn young people of the dangers they face and to stimulate awareness and discussion.
