NSTleader: A BBC report says a 23-year-old British lorry driver has since been charged with human trafficking offences.
According to the International Labour Organisation, in 2016, there were 40.3 million people in modern slavery — 24.9 million in forced labour and 15.4 million in forced marriage.And one in four victims is a child.Less than 40 days ago, 39 bodies of Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer in Essex, England.A BBC report says a 23-year-old British lorry driver has since been charged with human trafficking offences.But human trafficking isn’t just an European problem.
If this is too big a bite to swallow, there is the recent suggestion by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen: the 10-member Asean and China rope in the vast regional resources to fight the scourge.
What’s more, in the words of TIP, traffickers exploit vulnerability and circumstance to coerce victims to engage in commercial sex or deceive them into forced labour.Also, TIP researchers are beginning to see a trend that they may have missed before: human trafficking isn’t just transnational.Here, women and girls leave their rural homes to the cities to earn a living.
Taking advantage of their vulnerabilities, traffickers lure them into the sex trade, including massage parlors, karaoke bars and beer gardens.National enforcement is also critical in taking on trafficking.
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