Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others.

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Zambia gains momentum in its review of the Anti-Human Trafficking Act No. 11 of 2008

NeilWalker

UNODC partnered with the Zambia Law Development Commission (ZLDC) to convene a validation meeting on 19 December 2019 for stakeholders on the review of the Anti-Human Trafficking Act No. 11 of 2008. The review was necessitated by the need to address the bottlenecks associated with the enforcement of the Act and re-aligning the provisions of the Act with the 2002 Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons (Palermo Protocol) as per Zambia’s international obligations.

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Crime Gang Makes over €2m Trafficking Illegal Steroids

NeilWalker

An investigation by the Financial Police Division of Hellenic Police (Διεύθυνση Οικονομικής Αστυνομίας της Ελληνικής Αστυνομίας), the Central Office to fight Against Environmental and Public Health Crime (OCLAESP) and French Customs (Direction générale des douanes et droits indirects) with the support of experts from Europol resulted in the arrest of nine members in Greece and one in France of an organised crime group responsible for the production and trafficking of illegal anabolic substances and medicines around the world. #bordersecurity #trafficking

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2019 EU Drug Markets Report from the EMCDDA and EUROPOL

NeilWalker

Europeans are spending at least EUR 30 billion on drugs each year at retail level, making the drug market a major source of income for organised crime groups in the European Union. This figure is announced today in the 2019 EU Drug Markets Report, released by the EU drugs agency (EMCDDA) and Europol (1). Around two-fifths of this total (39%) is spent on cannabis, 31% on cocaine, 25% on heroin and 5% on amphetamines and MDMA (2).

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Large Network Smuggling Migrants in Lorries Dismantled in Germany And Romania

NeilWalker

The German Federal Police (Bundespolizei) and the Romanian Police (Poliția Română) supported by Europol, concluded their operation into a large criminal network smuggling migrants to western Europe in lorries. Austria, Hungary, the United Kingdom and Eurojust also took part in this two-year, Europe-wide operation. #smuggling #bordersecurity #wbsc

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Human smuggler indicted on US charges and arrested as part of Brazilian takedown of significant alien smugglers

NeilWalker

Extensive coordination and cooperation efforts between United States and Brazilian law enforcement authorities culminated in the Brazil Federal Police (DPF) conducting a significant enforcement operation to disrupt and dismantle a transnational alien smuggling organization, including the arrest on Brazilian charges of an alleged alien smuggler who has also been indicted in the United States. The alien smugglers targeted in this operation are alleged to be responsible for the illicit smuggling of scores of individuals from South Asia and elsewhere, into Brazil, and ultimately to the United States.

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Police continue to hunt the traffickers responsible for the 39 people who died tragically whilst being smuggled into the UK – What is the real lesson?

NeilWalker

As a response to the migrant camps in Calais, the UK government spent considerable amounts of money on improving security at the Channel ports, with investment in things like specialist fencing, sniffer dogs as well as technology, such as human presence detection systems (sometimes known as heart-beat detectors). #trafficking #bordersecurity

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