UN says more children and men falling prey to traffickers amid migration crisis
Source: The Guardian
Wednesday 21 December 2016 16.31 GMT
The number of children and men who fall prey to traffickers is rising, a UN study has found, with the global movement of refugees and migrants a major contributory factor.
Although women and girls account for more than 70% of human trafficking victims, the largest increase in the number of refugees and migrants since the aftermath of the second world war has left children and men more vulnerable to exploitation, according to the report.
Yury Fedotov, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the UN body charged with tackling the problem, warned that the average number of convictions for the crime remains low.
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While women and girls tend to be trafficked for marriage or sexual slavery, the report found that men and boys are typically exploited for forced labour in the mining sector and also as porters, soldiers and slaves.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/dec/21/un-more-children-and-men-falling-prey-human-trafficking-migration-crisis