Posts Tagged ‘trafficked children’
Labour Exploitation Main Reason for Human Trafficking
IOM Report Examines Recent Trends The International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) first report on counter trafficking and assistance to vulnerable migrants indicates that 53% of the human trafficking victims brought to them for assistance in 2011 involved victims of labour exploitation. In all 3,014 victims of labour exploitation were assisted by IOM. Other forms of…
Read MoreIs your Easter Egg Slavery Free
FAIRTRADE Easter Eggs Much of the world’s chocolate is produced using cocoa beans that have been harvested by trafficked children or forced labour. The West African countries of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana are two of the largest producers and exporters of cocoa in the world. The most recent figures estimate that 1.8 million children in…
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