Caritas Europa: New Caritas report casts spotlight on poor level of trafficking prevention in conflict and post-conflict situations
Ahead of world day against trafficking in human beings on 30 July, the network of Caritas organisations from the Euro-Mediterranean area launch a new report to cast the spotlight on the poor level of prevention of trafficking in conflict and post-conflict situations. Because of that, many vulnerable people who are fleeing from danger end up in the nets of unscrupulous criminals every year.
The report, entitled “Trafficking in human beings in conflict and post-conflict situations”, is the result of a research and actions conducted by Caritas in ten countries of the Euro-Mediterranean area: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Lebanon, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine. The national Caritas organisations in these countries identified risk situations for vulnerable people and took actions to tackle them.
Along with the results this research, the report includes a series of recommendations for the national governments, the United Nations, the European Union and international donors to improve the prevention, the identification, the law enforcement and the protection of victims of trafficking for child, sexual, labour and organ exploitation.
“With this report, we want to increase the knowledge of all stakeholders in acts of trafficking in human beings and to offer them methods for intervention that best reflect the situations regarding the specific vulnerabilities of children and adults at risk of being trafficked, both during a conflict and in the longer term,” said Geneviève Colas, coordinator for the research and action at Secours Catholique-Caritas France and coordinator of this report.
Read the full report here.
