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Hillary Clinton«Trafficking is a crime that involves every nation on earth, and that includes our own. We hope to shine the light brightly on the scope and scale of modern slavery so all governments can see where progress has been made and where more is needed»
Jolanta Kwasniewska«Our main goal is the active educational campaign designed, in the first place, for women and girls, to minimize risk to their freedom» |
Emma Thompson«It is important to raise the awareness about these young women who are forced into a kind of slavery, beaten, raped, tortured and threatened»
Mehriban Aliyeva«If two years ago we were concentrating our attention on how many people were trafficked out from Azerbaijan for sexual and labour exploitation, nowadays we are interested in what we can do for these victims» |
   
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Human trafficking is one of the most pressing and critical problems of the modern day. Sexual exploitation, forced labour, household slavery, begging, forced participation in military formations and conflicts, human trafficking for organ and tissue harvesting and transplantation – such are the forms of this global criminal phenomenon that the majority of the world countries are facing. 12 million people around the globe are currently enslaved 800 thousand people are sold annually to foreign countries for forced labour. About 80% of them are women, half of whom are underage. The profits from human trafficking reach $19 billion per year. The black list of countries where human trafficking is widespread includes Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Cuba, Iran, Moldova, North Korea and Syria. However, this is by far not the full list. Besides that, slave labour is used widely in many countries, including such economic powerhouses like Brazil, India and China. According to UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime), sexual exploitation of women and children has reached unprecedented scale, making up 79% of the entire volume of human trafficking. There are many causes that contribute to the rise of this complicated social phenomenon, including poverty and increasing unemployment, unfavourable situation on the job market and in education, corruption in government and business, political instability and armed conflicts, wild, unchecked profit-making as the main goal of business. Human trafficking victims can be found engaged in different types of work. Many are entrapped and forced into prostitution or other activities in the sex industry. Others are forced to work in restaurants, agriculture, hotels and as housemaids. Among the main forms of human trafficking there is the sexual exploitation of women and children in commercial prostitution, in prostitution in military conflict zones, in sex tourism and the production of pornography; human trafficking for slave labour in the black-market economy and in households; human trafficking for begging, organ and tissue transplantation, surrogate mothering as well as for forced military service and participation in armed conflicts. Campaigns and programmes to fight human trafficking usually include the following main components: - organization of anti-trafficking education and awareness campaigns for the general population, in the first place, women; - creation of appropriate employment, education and recreation opportunities and conditions for the population; - tightening of controls over organizations and firms that offer employment and education services abroad; - creation of appropriate conditions for rehabilitation of victims of human trafficking; - government and state protection of victims of human trafficking, including passing of laws to guarantee the victims access to justice, medical services, legal help, social and psychological care, housing, etc. Human trafficking is a heinous crime. Its victims are in need of help and protection from people who care. Our goal today is to mobilize support for the fight against human trafficking. |
    
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