Trafficking: Honduras records 14 cases of victims per month

Bogotá, Colombia

America must "articulate actions" to stop human trafficking, in an area where two-thirds of the victims are women and 79% are victims of exploitation on the occasion of the World Day Against Trafficking in Human Beings, celebrated on 30 July.

In Honduras, there are an average of 14 victims of human trafficking, mostly children, youths and women.

For this year, the UN has chosen as the central theme the response to trafficking in children and youth, pointing out that nearly one-third of the victims are minors, as is the case with children. is the case of children from Central America traveling alone to Mexico and the United States

Also, increased migrations of Venezuelans, fleeing the crisis in their country, triggered cases of human trafficking. 39 human beings in the region, especially dozens of women badually exploited and laboriously [1965900]. 3] Venezuela is, with Haiti, the country where modern slavery is most prevalent in Latin America

Carlos Andrés Pérez, Civil servant in Colombia's World Program of Action for Prevention and Combating Trafficking in Persons and the Smuggling of Migrants of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), said in a statement to Efe that this plague is now intra-regional [19659006] The operation is now registered between the countries of the same region, because for a network, it is more economical and also "because of the authorities that make it more and more difficult" to criminals, he explained

UNODC says Pérez, countries of the region are articulated (…) and that campaigns are being developed involving airports, airlines and migration authorities. "

Peru recorded about 6,000 complaints between 2009 and 2017, but exact number of victims, mostly women, is unknown.

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In the last cases, the number of Venezuelans has increased, just like the eleven women recently rescued from a bar on the border with Ecuador where they were badually exploited.

In Colombia, the & femmes,,,,,,,……………. The focus has been on combating the trafficking of its citizens abroad, with a renewed campaign every year, and there are also reports of Venezuelan citizens who, because of their irregular situation, are exploited by labor.

In Argentina, 5,000 complaints were received in the last two years, of which 40% were for badual exploitation

international networks that exploit women of various nationalities. # 39 UN, verbal, physical or badual abuse was reported by Venezuelans

according to the latest US government report. In the United States, the phenomenon is linked to the arrival of immigrants mainly from the North Triangle of Central America (Guatemala, Honduras). and El Salvador) who cross Mexico with the help of "coyotes" or "polleros" (people traffickers).

In El Salvador, trafficking is linked to illegal migration. According to figures from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), 62% of children who migrate to North America without the company of one of their parents and who are fired travel in the networks traffic.

Costa Rica At least 170 people have been rescued since 2010, most of them are foreigners, and the most common modalities are badual exploitation and exploitation at work.

In Guatemala, trafficking has re-offended with more than 500 cases per year, According to humanitarian agencies, this is due to "the existence of permissive social institutions and a patriarchal system that favors the relations of inequality, domination and exploitation.

In 2016, 526 cases were reported in Guatemala and from January to October 2017 354; 64% of the victims are women, 34% of the men and 2% are not registered.

In Panama, between 2014 and January of this year, 198 victims saved from Venezuelan, Colombian, Ecuadorian and Panamanian nationalities are counted, 16 international organizations dismantled and 50 persons prosecuted for this crime.

The Dominican authorities presented on June 26 the "Day of Prevention against Trafficking in Persons and Commercial Sexual Exploitation", two days after the rescue of six Venezuelans from a network

The month Lastly, the Chilean government launched the "Frontera Norte Segura" plan to increase security at border crossings with Peru and Bolivia and to stop drug trafficking, smuggling and trafficking in human beings

. Paraguay has about 300 cases of victims of trafficking a year, of which 1% are destination victims while the others are of origin.

Cuban authorities badure It is argued that a national policy of " zero tolerance " regarding human trafficking is maintained and that the low incidence of this phenomenon on the island is badociated with social achievements and citizen safety.