Category Archive Publications in International media

CNBC: International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking 2022: All you need to know

Nearly 275 million people used drugs worldwide in 2020, up by 22 percent from 2010, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. It added that the number of cannabis users increased by nearly 18 percent between 2010 and 2020.

9news.com: What parents should know about human trafficking

Dozens of groups are working to ensure that kids stay safe.

ABC17news: Coronavirus pandemic increases human trafficking

The coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated the problem of human trafficking. According to the U.S State Department, an estimated 24.9 million adults and children are subjected to human trafficking around the world, including in the United States.

Want to save the children? How child sexual abuse and human trafficking really work

Millions of kidnapped children are imprisoned in underground tunnels, being sexually abused and tortured by a shadowy global cabal of paedophiles.

That, at least, is some of the misinformation about child sex trafficking being spread on social media. You’ll also see such ideas being promoted at protests from Los Angeles to London, with hashtags such as #saveourchildren and #endchildtrafficking emblazoned on shirts and placards.

The Guardian: Mars, Nestlé and Hershey to face child slavery lawsuit in US

Chocolate companies are among the defendants named in a lawsuit brought by former child workers in Ivory Coast

Eight children who claim they were used as slave labour on cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast have launched legal action against the world’s biggest chocolate companies. They accuse the corporations of aiding and abetting the illegal enslavement of “thousands” of children on cocoa farms in their supply chains.

UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons for 2020

The 2020 UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons is the fifth of its kind mandated by the General Assembly through the 2010 United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons. It covers 148 countries and provides an overview of patterns and flows of trafficking in persons at global, regional and national levels, based primarily on trafficking cases detected between 2016 and 2019.

CNN: The pandemic has created a second crisis in India — the rise of child trafficking

One evening in August, a 14-year-old boy snuck out of his home and boarded a private bus to travel from his village in Bihar to Jaipur, a chaotic, crowded and historical city 800 miles away in India’s Rajasthan state.

CTV.BY: Parents can see how easy it is for children to fall for criminals. Unique internet platform presented in Minsk

Belarus makes a great contribution to international cooperation in combating trafficking in human beings, according to the News 24 Hours program on CTV. July 30 is the world day to combat this negative phenomenon.

ZN.UA: How not to become a “living commodity”

July 30 is World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

According to a study by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), 13% of Ukrainians are ready to accept a risky job offer abroad. Over the years of independence, more than 260 thousand Ukrainians have become victims of human trafficking, and our country has become a leader in South-Eastern Europe in terms of the number of victims. Moreover, 65% of Ukrainians worked in the Russian Federation.

NEWS.RU: Russia was put on a par with Afghanistan in the spread of slavery

Why did the experts of the US State Department named Russia among the countries where this phenomenon is most neglected, and the fight against it is the least effective.

The US State Department released its annual Global Slavery Report, which analyzed in detail the situation and trends in each country.