Facts
Between 800,000 to two million persons are trafficked each year across international borders; approximately 80 percent are women & girls; up to 50 percent are minors (US TIP Report, 2004), of these, 66% are women, 13% girls, 12% are men and 9% are boys.
Persons are trafficked for:
(from UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, 2009)
Persons are trafficked for:
- sexual exploitation
- forced labor
- domestic servitude
- forced marriage
- organ removal
- exploitation of children in begging, sex trade and warfare.
(from UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, 2009)
Counter Trafficking Training Course for Religious Women of East Africa
Talitha Kum successfully conducted a Counter Trafficking Training Course for Religious Women of East Africa on April 6 – 12,...
2011-06-13
Talitha Kum Coordination Meeting.
The First Talitha Kum Coordination Meeting was held in Rome on May 30 – June 1st, 2011.
2011-06-13
Worse Than Any Other
A provoking character in a play by George Bernard Shaw said that he hated “poverty and slavery worse than any other crime...
2010-11-09
