Internet and communication technology (ICT) has led to the emergence and rapid expansion of technology-facilitated trafficking in human beings (THB). The misuse of technology has become central to the business model of human traffickers and is present at each stage of the crime from grooming and recruitment, to control and coercion, to exploitation. At the most basic level, ICT – and the internet specifically – facilitates connectivity among perpetrators, between traffickers and their victims, as well as with users of goods and services extracted from victims. As technology becomes ever more central to both licit and illicit marketplaces – a situation accelerated by the COVID19 pandemic – the challenge posed by technology-facilitated THB is set to increase. Effective and comprehensive responses are therefore urgently required. In particular, measures that foster safety and counter the harms – including substantive human rights violations – facilitated by technology are needed.
This research project focussed on Asian trafficking victims in Europe, especially in The Czech Republic, Poland, and Romania. Increasingly, Asian migrants are recruited to work in Europe. Among them are many people from the Philippines and Vietnam. ...Read More
To celebrate the launch of the updated Interactive Map for Business of Anti-Human Trafficking Organizations and Initiatives (https://www.modernslaverymap.org/), the webinar will showcase successful anti-trafficking partnerships between business and non-profit organizations or initiatives. This one-hour session will convene businesses, anti-trafficking organizations, experts,...
Report launch: Wednesday, 11 May 2022 16:00-17:30 ICT (Cambodia/Vietnam) | 11:00-12:30 CEST (Austria) | 10:00-11:30 BST (UK) The number of women travelling from Cambodia to China for forced or arranged marriages has surged since 2016 and experienced a further spike...
Forced labor is a feature, not a bug, in today’s global economic system. Forced labor spans the globe. It involves multinational corporations. It is found in special economic zones—and war zones. And it is in everyone’s backyard. Globally, 27....Read More
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