Children's trade in alarm state: Uno warns of dramatic increase!

Children's trade in alarm state: Uno warns of dramatic increase!

Wien, Österreich - The situation of human trafficking has intensified in recent years. According to the new human trafficking report from the UN Authority for Drug and Crime Constitution (UNODC), there were 75,000 documented cases worldwide in 2022, including 25,000 children. This is an increase of 25 percent compared to the years before corona pandemic. The increase in the smuggling of girls who are brought to many regions for the purpose of sexual exploitation is particularly worrying. But not only girls are affected-but also boys, often traveling migrants, are increasingly falling victim to the criminal machinations, such as Volksblatt reports.

The UNODC identified 440 routes for transnational human trafficking, with most victims from Africa. Organized crime is responsible for these crimes in three out of four cases. Girls and women increasingly have to serve as prostitutes or straight fraudsters in online contexts, which further increases the complexity of the crime. This importance shows that there are increasingly companies that are hiding behind legal facades to operate human trafficking. The need for a clear legal framework and efficient enforcement is more urgent than ever. But the statistics are deceptive, especially if you look at the incomplete data. The situation is similar in Germany. The annually published federal position on human trafficking contains only completed investigations, which means that many cases remain unnoticed and do not incorporate into the statistics, such as