Atlantic Council Article on Victim Identification by John Cotton Richmond
Less than half of 1 percent of human trafficking victims are identified. That needs to change.
Human trafficking victims suffer because governments lag behind. On Thursday, the US Department of State published its annual Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP report), and the facts should shock us all. Traffickers operate with impunity, forced labor sustains global supply chains, predators rent children for commercial sex, and governments fail to implement strong enough action plans, laws, and treaties to stop them.
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