UN Alarmed With No Punishment of Human Traffickingrs

Trafficking in people, men, women, and children who are victims of crime are still unpunished worldwide, a United Nations report shows.

Despite a recent tendency to increase the number of decisions announced for condemning human trafficking in Africa and the Middle East, <x0 total number of decisions in these areas remains very small”, the UN Office points out U n NODC, headquartered in Vienna.

“The smugglers are almost not threatened with appearances before courts,” said in the document, in which strengthening international co-operation is required to prosecute criminal networks.

The report following data through 2016 notes that in the last thirty years, the number of countries in which armed conflict has developed has never been greater than that year.

Armed conflict “raises the risk of smuggling people”, because it is often accompanied by a power crisis, forced population shift, family division and not economic stability, the UNODC points out.

UNODC stresses that 70 per cent of trafficking victims are women, and 23 per cent of them are under 18 years of age, Kosovo Preress broadcasts.

The office does not offer an assessment of the number of trafficking victims in the world. The number of cases identified in 2016 was slightly lower than 25,000, or 10,000 more than in 2011, with a higher “growth in America and Asia”.

Otherwise, the report warns that increasing the number of trafficked persons could be linked to more effective identification, not to increasing the number of people who are victims of trafficking.