Technology and Human Trafficking. Background Paper
- Document number
- 1464
- Date
- 2008
- Title
- Technology and Human Trafficking. Background Paper
- Author/publisher
- Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, United Nations (UN)
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports,
- Keywords
- UN GIFT, United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking, The Vienna Forum to fight Human Trafficking
- Summary
- As globalization accelerates, the range of information and communication technologyexpands, becoming more accessible to more people, ultimately impacting the way thathumans interact. The same is as true for human trafficking as it is for legal businessenterprises; technology offers traffickers more creative and complex ways to committheir crimes while at the same time, presenting the global anti-trafficking communitywith more opportunities to respond to it.
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