Security Council discussion on human trafficking

The Security Council held a meeting devoted to human trafficking. Costa, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, briefed the Council. Julia Ormond, a Hollywood star and goodwill ambassador of UNODC against human trafficking, also called on all parties to work together to combat human trafficking at the press conference after the meeting. Please listen to Hu Shengqiao's report.

Julia Ormond, a Hollywood actress, is famous for starring in films such as Passion Years, and is a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime against human trafficking. At the press conference held at the United Nations Headquarters in new york, she called on governments, civil society, the private sector and individuals to take concerted action to combat human trafficking, a modern form of slavery. She believes that human trafficking is rapidly becoming the most profitable global criminal activity.

Aumund: "(English) As we know, people who are engaged in human trafficking are also engaged in arms smuggling and drug smuggling. The smuggling of weapons and drugs is changing to human trafficking, because human trafficking is very profitable and it is becoming a rapidly growing global criminal activity. Another reason why human trafficking is increasingly rampant is that people have not taken measures to reduce the demand for human trafficking, while at the same time, vulnerable groups available for trafficking are constantly flowing. "

Aumund said that human trafficking takes many forms, involving billions of dollars, including not only luring young women into the sex industry, but also forcibly recruiting child soldiers, training boys to ride camels after being kidnapped, and luring women away from home to do housework.

Aumund: "(English) Human trafficking is related to prostitution, which is also a common misunderstanding of human trafficking. In fact, agriculture and mining are the most trafficked, not pornography. Another misunderstanding of human trafficking is that the trafficked people are often prostitutes, foreigners who live illegally, people who don't have legal visas and people who abuse asylum, so these people are often expelled on suspicion of being criminals, while those engaged in human trafficking are rarely caught. Based on this, we must strengthen the crackdown on traffickers. "

Another point that Aumund emphasized was the relationship between human trafficking and terrorism. She believes that terrorists are using the profits of human trafficking to finance terrorist activities. Strengthening the control of terrorist activities sometimes inadvertently encourages human trafficking.

Aumund: "After (English) 9 1 1, the border control between the United States and Mexico was strengthened, and actually more people were sent to traffickers. From the perspective of combating human trafficking, it is a better way to provide temporary visas to make human trafficking unprofitable. "

Costa, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, said at a press conference that the problem of human trafficking is becoming more serious, extensive and violent than before.

Costa said that the United Nations also has a global anti-trafficking initiative, which is being supported by more and more countries.

Costa: "(English) This initiative is mainly to solve the problems of prevention, prosecution, protection and assistance to victims. Generally speaking, this agreement aims to make everyone join the ranks of anti-abduction by raising people's awareness of anti-abduction. We have organized many activities around the world to study the different characteristics of human trafficking in different places, thus forming a framework, so that the activities of each person or unit constitute a supplement to others and other units. "

At the end of last year, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released the first global report on human trafficking. Costa said that although the report was mainly written by second-hand materials such as media reports and research materials, it also reflected the basic situation of human trafficking.

Costa: "From the source, the problem of human trafficking is mainly in Southeast Asian countries, some Eastern European countries and some countries in Central Africa. From the destination, it is mainly developed countries. First of all, there is demand in developed countries, and secondly, the yearning for a rich life in developed countries often makes some people deceived. "

According to Xinhua News Agency in Vienna in April 1 1, Konrad, an international consultant of Austrian Aid Center for Trafficked Women and former OSCE Special Representative for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, said in Vienna on April 1 1 that the crime of human trafficking in the world is becoming increasingly rampant and a new trend has emerged.

Conrad said at the press conference held on the anniversary of the establishment of Austria's "Assistance Center for Trafficked Women" 10 that the global annual human trafficking transaction amount is as high as 35 billion US dollars, and there are about 2 million to 4 million victims worldwide. He called on all countries to strengthen international cooperation and fight this criminal phenomenon resolutely for a long time.

Conrad quoted data provided by the International Labour Organization and the International Organization for Migration as saying that there were about 500,000 victims in Europe alone, mainly women from South America, Africa and Asian countries. Since 1989, women in Southeast Europe have also become prey of international human trafficking groups. The number of female victims from the Middle East and Northeast Asia has also increased significantly.

Conrad also said that the criminal methods of traffickers are changeable. "The victims are getting younger and younger, and more and more children are being trafficked" is becoming a new feature of international population crime. Due to the temptation of false prospects and forced living environment, more and more people are willing to fall into the hands of traffickers.