Human Trafficking: An Overview
- Document number
- 1470
- Date
- 2008
- Title
- Human Trafficking: An Overview
- 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
- More and more people are becoming aware of the horrors of human trafficking. Yet the crime persists. In many countries,international laws to stop human trafficking are still not adhered to and implementation remains inadequate.Few criminals are convicted and the majority of victims never receive help.The true extent of this crime is unknown. That in itself is a problem that deserves further attention. The criminalnature of the phenomenon, the lack of legislation, benign neglect in some quarters and denial in others make informationcollection a challenge. The tip of the iceberg is in front of our eyes: how much of it is submerged? Evidencesuggests that the problem is global, significant and growing.
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