Press release - Human trafficking: stronger measures to protect women, children and migrants
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Wednesday, February 10, 2021
The report calls on the Commission to amend the Anti-Trafficking Directive to ensure that member states explicitly criminalise the knowing use of services provided by victims of trafficking.
Key Points:
- The report calls on the Commission to amend the Anti-Trafficking Directive to ensure that member states explicitly criminalise the knowing use of services provided by victims of trafficking.
- Asylum seekers, refugees and migrants, especially women and unaccompanied minors, are particularly vulnerable to trafficking, MEPs warn.
- Human trafficking violates life, physical and mental integrity, sexual freedom and human dignity.
- The alarming increase in the trafficking of children affects undocumented migrants in particular.