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UNODC Launches Global Initiative to Combat Human Trafficking and Smuggling of Migrants
At a time of global challenges such as war, large-scale migration and refugee flows, increasing cybercrime, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic, human trafficking and migrant smuggling have become a multi-billion dollar business. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna has presented a new global initiative to combat these problems.
Despite the Ukraine conflict, UNODC highlighted the positive examples of social assistance, job opportunities, and protection provided to Ukrainian refugees and the prevention of migrant smuggling. / Picture: © Mirek Pruchnicki from Przemyśl, Sanok, Polska, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Ilias Chatzis, the head of the UNODC's Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants Unit, pointed out that the progress made so far in combating these crimes is being jeopardized by new challenges. "Over the past two decades, there has been relative optimism that we could win the fight against human trafficking and smuggling globally. But recent global developments have changed the…
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