Immigrant Council Welcomes New EU Strategy to Combat Trafficking

The Immigrant Council of Ireland welcomed the launch of a new European strategy to eradicate trafficking in human beings.
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Immigrant Council Welcomes New EU Strategy to Combat Trafficking
BEIJING, CHINA: The "missing children playing cards" are displayed by Shen Hao, the founder of a missing person website, the www.xrqs.com, on March 31, 2007 in Beijing, China. The cards show photographs, informations of 27 missing children and Shen Hao plans to hand out them free to the public security departments, civil affairs bureaus and residents, in areas notorious for child trafficking. (China Photos/Getty Images)
6/22/2012
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10/1/2015
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The Immigrant Council of Ireland welcomed the launch of a new European strategy to eradicate trafficking in human beings.

Human Trafficking is a very serious problem in Europe. “Trafficking in human beings is a lucrative form of crime that generates billions of euro for the organisers each year. Latest estimates from the International Labour Organisation – covering the period 2002 to 2011 – put the number of victims of forced labour and sexual exploitation at 20.9 million at a global level, with an estimated 5.5 million children being trafficked, Denise Charlton, CEO of the Immigrant Council, who took part in the EC Group of Experts in Human Trafficking said.

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EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem pictured at a press conference on February 24, 2010 at EU headquarters in Brussels.