Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog: The World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

by | Sep 11, 2017

Founding Directors Victor Boutros and John Richmond reflect on the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons on the Oxford Human Rights Hub blog.

July 30th marked the UN’s fourth annual World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, which seeks to increase awareness of human trafficking as a serious crime and human rights violation. Traffickers make money by exploiting others, often forcing them to work in their business or to engage in commercial sex, seizing their earnings, and paying them little or no wages. The ILO estimates that there are 20.9 million human trafficking victims in the world today. Click here to read complete article.

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