July 30: World Anti-Trafficking Day.
Every country in the world suffers from trafficking in persons.
Human trafficking is a crime that exploits women, children and men for numerous purposes, including forced labor and sexual exploitation. Since 2003, UNODC has collected information on approximately 225,000 victims of trafficking detected worldwide. Globally, more and more countries are detecting victims and denouncing the traffickers of these mafias. This leads to greater ease in detecting these victims, but, as a consequence, also to an increase in numbers.
In September 2015, countries adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and agreed to meet the goals and targets related to the fight against trafficking. These goals call for an end to trafficking and violence against children, action against trafficking in general, and an end to all forms of violence against and exploitation of women and girls.
Just one year later, another important event took place, the Summit on Refugees and Migrants at which the New York Declaration was adopted. In this document, the countries committed themselves to 19 points, three of which focused precisely on combating human trafficking and migrant smuggling.
CNDH’s Anti-Trafficking in Persons Program
Strengthen and diversify the implementation of strategies to bring the National Human Rights Commission closer to the victims, to the most vulnerable groups, as well as to the communities at risk, constituting itself as an instance of protection and vigilance with respect to the human rights of the victims of human trafficking.
- Measuresaimed at the entire population to prevent human trafficking and promote communities free of violence.
- Actions focused on groups that register a higher risk of becoming victims or traffickers/exploiters.
- Actions to avoid recidivism of persons who generate violence; and to avoid secondary victimization.