human trafficking

Grizelda Grootboom, Civil society representative and victim of human trafficking, addresses the high-level meeting of the General Assembly to appraise progress achieved in the implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Traffickin
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Make human trafficking “a real priority” urges UN chief

27 September 2017
General News

The scourge of human trafficking needs to become “a real priority for international cooperation,” the UN Secretary-General urged on Wednesday.

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Migration, human trafficking major challenges in Libya: UN official

22 August 2017
General News

It is important to look at migration in Libya “not just as an internal problem, but as a regional issue.”

That’s according to Maria do Valle Ribeiro, deputy head of the UN mission in the country, UNSMIL.

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Young women in Colombia forced into sexual exloitation.
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Security Council debates stamping out human trafficking

15 March 2017
General News

Better data and funding will be critical in the global fight to stamp out human trafficking, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the

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A woman watches children working at a stone quarry, Zambia; UN
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“Poverty and lack of education” increases slavery

28 December 2016
General News

Lack of education and poverty pushes people into forced labour and slavery according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

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Chitra Massey (centre).
UNIC Canberra

UN Gender Focus: refugees, human trafficking and judicial rights

6 October 2016
UN Gender Focus

Detainees on Pacific island “completely without hope”

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Participants at a UNODC event in New York hold up photos of their missing loved ones.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Senior UN officials seek accountability for human trafficking crimes in forced migration

23 September 2016
Senior United Nations officials today called for those responsible for human rights violations and crimes associated with human trafficking and forced migration to be held accountable, noting that some of the crimes committed in this respect may amount to atrocity crimes.
Taking a break from work, a woman breastfeeds her 10-month-old son.
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UN Gender Focus: breastfeeding, human trafficking and peacekeeping

4 August 2016
UN Gender Focus

50% of children born each year “not being put to the breast soon enough”

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“Only one out of 100 people are rescued” from human trafficking

29 July 2016
General News

Only one out of 100 people are rescued from human trafficking according to a senior UN official working on the issue.

Simone Monasebian is head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in New York.

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The Mo Chit bus station in Bangkok, Thailand, which is an active hub for human traffickers.
UNICEF/Jim Holmes

Forced labour is “like a virus” the head of ILO says

19 July 2016
General News

Forced labour is “like a virus” because of its capacity to mutate, the head of the International Labour Organization (ILO) has said.

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Matthew Wells interviewing actress Gillian Anderson at UN Headquarters in New York.
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'Film can change the world': The Lid is On, with Gillian Anderson

15 April 2016
The Lid is On

A “weapon of change” against the global scourge of human trafficking: that’s how the director of the film that’s the focus of our latest podcast, hopes his movie that’s fuelling a movement, will be used.

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