A Look at the 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report

Written by Zeus, Content Writer, Citizend Diplomat eMagazine
Trafficking in persons, otherwise known as human trafficking, has been on the rise since the Covid-19 pandemic emerged. Despite the difficult situation brought about by the global health crisis, anti-trafficking efforts are waxing stronger, but a lot still needs to be done to address the emerging trends in this modern slavery.
A double-headed monster
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) defines human trafficking as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of people through force, fraud, or deception, with the aim of exploiting them for profit. The exploitation can be in form of sex or slave labor, and anyone can become a victim of this crime — men, women, and children of all ages and from all backgrounds. Every year, thousands fall into the hands of traffickers, either in their own countries or abroad.

Human trafficking has been described as a doubled-headed monster — on one hand, a slave labor issue and on the other, sex trafficking. Traffickers often use violence or fraudulent employment agencies and fake promises of education and job opportunities to trick and coerce their ...