The International Day Against Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking in Persons has
been celebrated on September 23 since 1999 in coordination with the
Women's Conference that took place in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in January of that same year.
But what is sexual exploitation?
It consists of the purchase, sale and exploitation of children and adults, for various destinations such as organ trafficking, forced labor, with sexual exploitation being the most frequent destination for girls and women.
It is estimated that in the world, 1.8 million people are victims of crimes of human trafficking for sexual exploitation, a scourge that is only comparable to drug and arms trafficking.
Human traffickers take advantage of situations of poverty, lack of education, natural disasters, wars and other circumstances like the pandemic covid-19 nowadays, to steal children or adults and sell them to the mafias.
Migration crises have been exploited by criminal networks to act against the most vulnerable.
Besides, traffickers abuse asylum systems. For example, there has been an increase in cases of disappearance of Nigerian girls and women who leave Libya seeking a better life, and who have been destined for sexual exploitation.
https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2018/3/15/returning-to-life-after-being-sold-into-sexual-slavery
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/04/14/399440165/campaigners-refuse-to-let-kidnapped-nigerian-girls-be-forgotten?t=1601565247157
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