2. 136 countries covered 136 countries were covered
86% official statistics
10% IGOs
3% NGOs

3. Victims

4. Most detected victims are women…

5. …but the share of men is increasing

6. Significant regional differences…

7. …also regarding the age profiles of detected victims

8. Forms of Exploitation

9. Forms of exploitation by gender
Women
Men

10. Stable trends for forms of exploitation

11. Beyond sexual exploitation and forced labour
The report highlights that there are many forms of exploitation and trafficking victims are not only women for sexual exploitation and men for forced labour. Moreover, forced labour is a broad category that entails exploitation in a number of sectors. In the report, we discuss the various forms, and have text boxes about trafficking for marriage and for exploitation in the fishing industry.

12. Traffickers

13. Most convicted traffickers are men…

14. …but many women are involved in trafficking crimes

15. Most convicted traffickers are local citizens…
Looking at the citizenship profiles of convicted traffickers, three quarters are citizens of the country where they were convicted. If this is broken down by region, however, an interesting picture emerges. In NAME (well, ME…) and Western and Southern Europe, most convicted traffickers are foreigners.

16. …but destination countries convict more foreigners

17. Victims and traffickers have the same background
Often come from the same place
Often speak the same language
Often have the same ethnic background
Can be family members or relatives
Women usually traffic women and girls

18. Trafficking Flows

19. 43% of victims are trafficked domestically: within national borders
Domestic trafficking
43% of victims are trafficked domestically: within national borders

20. Cross-border flows: sub or transregional?
As expected, more typical destination areas have larger shares of transregional trafficking. It is only profitable to traffic victims far when the destination (place of exploitation) is a wealthy area.

21. Victims are trafficked to many different countries
Victims from Sub-Saharan Africa are the most ‘diffused’ – detected in 69 countries worldwide. This used to be East Asia and the Pacific.
Not surprisingly – as a key destination with very good data – W+S Europe detects victims of most citizenships.

22. Destination countries detect victims of many different citizenships

23. Criminal Justice Response

24. Most countries now have solid legislation
The progress in terms of legislation has been quite impressive; the number of countries with comprehensive TiP legislation went from 18% at the entry into force of the Protocol in December 2003 to 88% in August 2016 (this analysis covers more countries than patterns and flows).

25. Countries with older legislation report more trafficking convictions
New analysis, done for the first time for this report, shows that while the number of convictions is overall still low, there is a correlation between how long a country has had legislation and how many convictions it records.

26. Few countries have more than 50 convictions per year

27. Human Trafficking, Migration and Conflict

28. Human trafficking, migration and conflict
Cross-border trafficking flows often resemble regular migration flows
Broad similarities between citizenships of detected trafficking victims and citizenships of recently arrived migrants
Conflict creates vulnerabilities
Increasing numbers of detected trafficking victims from conflict areas e.g. Syria

29. Trafficking in persons and conflict
Refugees escaping wars are easily targeted by traffickers
The presence of large number of troops creates demand for labour and sexual services
Armed groups recruit and abduct children to use them as combatants
Armed groups recruit or abduct women and girls for forced marriage, domestic work and sexual slavery as well as men and boys for forced labour
Conflict relates to TiP not only because conflict tends to generate large groups of vulnerable people escaping violence, but also because many armed groups often engage in trafficking.

30. Trafficking in persons in the SDGs
Target 16.2; indicator
End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence and torture against children.
Target 5.2
Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including
trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation.
Target 8.7
Taking immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking…
TiP features prominently in the SDGs. Three targets explicitly mention TiP. UNODC, because of its long-standing systematic data collection on the topic, is in a good position to help MS monitor progress.

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