Trafficking in Persons: Analysis on Europe
- Document number
- 2241
- Date
- 2009
- Title
- Trafficking in Persons: Analysis on Europe
- Author/publisher
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Guidelines/Recommendations, Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Trafficking process, Recruitment, Transportation, Transit, Transfer, Consent, Palermo protocol; Definition of (trafficking), Root Causes, Risk Groups, Vulnerability, Pull factors, Push factors, Sending/Receiving countries,
- Summary
- The report, based on UNODC's Global Report on Trafficking in Persons (launched in February 2009), says less people (1 in 100,000) are being convicted for human trafficking in Europe than for rare crimes like kidnapping. Only 9,000 victims were reported in 2006 - around 30 times less than the total estimated number.
The report shows a high degree of internal trafficking, both domestically within European countries and regionally within the European Union (predominantly from South-eastern to Western Europe). At the same time, European victims represent just a fraction of the total number of victims detected in Europe. Recent trends show a steady decline of flows from traditional sources, and a marked increase in victims from China and Central Asia.
Most identified victims of human trafficking in Europe are young women, trafficked for sexual exploitation. Around 10% of trafficking victims in Europe are children. There are also detected cases of men in forced labour, like construction and agriculture. - Related documents
- Global Report on Trafficking in Persons
- Compilation of the Main Legal Instruments and Analytical Reports dealing with Trafficking in Human Beings at International, Regional and National Levels. VOLUME II (National texts)
- Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme A Handbook for Civil Society
- Guidance on representing trafficked persons in compensation claims