30 July marks the World Day against Trafficking in Persons. Human trafficking is a serious transnational crime and a human rights violation. It is thought to be one of the fastest-growing profitable activities of transnational criminal organisations. Human trafficking is defined in the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons which supplements the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. Despite the numbers of victims estimated in millions, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court does not include a distinct crime of human trafficking. Learn more in our video.
