Trafficking vs migration

The UN's IRIN news service has a good piece exploring the nuances of human trafficking and the difficulties in fighting against it. Particularly difficult is how to discern human trafficking from legitimate economic migration.

Trafficking vs migration

The UN's IRIN news service has a good piece exploring the nuances of human trafficking and the difficulties in fighting against it. Particularly difficult is how to discern human trafficking from legitimate economic migration.

The new slavery

Vienna is hosting the first major international forum dedicated to the fight against human trafficking. UN officials rightly call it the hidden crime of globalisation and nothing short of modern day slavery.

It's an 'industry' with annual profits of an estimated $32 billion.

Astonishingly, one of the conference attendees called human trafficking more lucrative than the trafficking in arms.