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Profits

The ILO (International Labor Organization) has estimated that forced labour raises profits of US$32 billion a year. According to EUDITE European Federation of Local Government Chief Executives ). the Council of Europe states that “people trafficking has reached epidemic proportions over the past decade, with a global annual market of about $42.5 billion.

The sexual exploitation of women and children as a result of trafficking is estimated to earn US$28 billion annually. Source: P. Bessler, ‘Forced Labour and Human Trafficking: Estimating the Profits’, ILO Working Paper (Geneva, 2005)

Victims

Estimates of victims vary widely according to the definitions used by the instituions carrying out the research and also due to the clandestine nature of the phenomenon

12.3 million victims of forced labour are estimated in the world today, of whom some 2.45 million are trafficked according to ILO. Of these, most are trafficked into forced labour for commercial sexual exploitation, while one third are trafficked for other economic exploitation. Over half of the persons subject to forced economic exploitation, and almost all those subject to forced commercial sexual exploitation, are women Source: P. Bessler, ‘Forced Labour and Human Trafficking: Estimating the Profits’, ILO Working Paper (Geneva, 2005)

700,000 to two million are trafficked across international borders annually, an estimate advanced by the United Nations Population Fund. Source: Amy O’Neill Richard, International Trafficking in Women to the United States: A Contemporary Manifestation of Slavery and Organized Crime (USA: DCI, 2000), p. 3. See also United Nations Population Fund, State of the World’s Population (New York, 2003)

The US Department of State has estimated 600,000 to 800,000 men, women, and children trafficked across international borders each year, approximately 80 percent are women and girls.

Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings CETS No.: 197 The Council of Europe considered that it was necessary to draft a legally binding instrument which goes beyond recommendations or specific actions. On 3 May 2005, the Committee of Ministers adopted the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (CETS No. 197).

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