United Nations — A new U.N. report warns “the number of human trafficking victims is on the rise” as criminal gangs and terror groups prey increasingly on women and children to make money and bolster their numbers. The 90-page Global Trafficking in Persons report says that children, who account for 30 percent of all trafficking victims, include “far more” girls than boys.

“The vast majority of detected victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation and 35 percent of those trafficked for forced labor are female,” Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) wrote in the report, adding that trafficking cases overall have hit a 13-year high. Tiếp tục đọc “Human trafficking of girls in particular “on the rise,” United Nations warns” →