July 30th July 30, 2017 is the "World Day against Trafficking in Persons", established by the general assembly of the United Nations in December 2013. The United Nations pointed out that criminal gangs are using conflict and war led to social unrest opportunities, rampant trafficking and smuggling of migrants and other activities in the world; the international community needs to act now to provide for further assistance and protection of victims, and strive to end such crimes. Please listen to the report of the United Nations News Cheng Ho:
Fedotov, executive director of the United Nations Office on drugs and crime (Yury Fedotov), issued a statement on the 30 day in the world day for trafficking in human beings, pointing out that conflict provides a hotbed for criminal activities. In despair, the people who have been forced to choose to leave their homes to escape violence are being reduced to "prey" for the traffickers of the population. In the case of Syria, the latest United Nations "report" global human trafficking, before 2011, the country's women and children rarely been trafficked; however, since the crisis, more and more countries have found a large number of trafficking victims from Syria in Europe, Asia and the middle east......
Fedotov said that the international community has come to recognize that the armed conflict and humanitarian crisis risk into people in the fire were trafficked in the conflict zone and increase, it is necessary to human trafficking, sexual violence in conflict and violent extremism and other interrelated problems to carry out strong action. To this end, the UN Security Council passed a resolution on the "problem" of trafficking in conflict situations in population in the last year; the UN high level meeting on "refugees and immigrants mass flow problems also adopted the" New York declaration ", promised to fight against human trafficking and smuggling of migrants, according to" the United Nations to combat transnational organized the Convention provides support for the victims of crime ".
Fedotov emphasized that it is precisely because of this year that the theme of propaganda against trafficking in human beings has been identified as action to protect and assist Let's act now to protect and assist trafficking victims. The United Nations has called on the public to actively participate in the development in the world of the "blue heart movement (Blue Heart Campaign)", "victims of trafficking through the voluntary trust fund to provide adequate resources and support for the related field to carry out the action, and to strengthen cooperation with non-governmental organizations.
Human trafficking is a crime that uses women, children and men for many purposes, including labour exploitation and sexual exploitation. Every country, whether as a country of origin of a refugee, a country of transit or a target country, has a problem of trafficking in population. According to the United Nations statistics, children account for 1/3 of all trafficking objects; among all the victims, women and girls account for 71%. In addition, the International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that 21 million people worldwide are victims of forced labour. This figure includes the victims of trafficking in human beings and sexual exploitation. Although it is not known how many of these victims are trafficked, the estimate means that there are millions of victims of trafficking in the world.
Cheng Hao, United Nations headquarters in New York.
