While significant progress has been made globally in the fight against trafficking, this barbaric crime is at its height. UNODC, monitoring 156 countries in 2024 have found that the trafficking of adults and children for all forms of exploitation continues to rise as poverty, conflict and climate change leave more and more people vulnerable to traffickers. At the same time, international aid has been drastically cut; the political will of Governments is focused elsewhere, and messaging on the subject of trafficking is misleading for the public, often conflating it with illegal immigration, and failing to differentiate the victims from the criminals. While National Referral Mechanisms (NRMs) and organisational services for survivors have continued to progress, they are over-stretched and under-resourced: the identification, protection and support of survivors is a ‘lottery’ relying upon the locale in which adults and children are identified, and the quality of professionals they encounter.
Our vision is a global anti-trafficking sector that is cohesive, co-ordinated and stable; which can ensure a high standard of sustained safety, well-being, recovery, integration and justice for all survivors, no matter their immigration status, background history, or where they are located.
This means a sector that is supported and incentivised by political will and public understanding. It requires that modern slavery-related professions are resourced and equipped to deliver on-going training from the recruitment and induction stage onwards which is monitored, evaluated and accredited; that professionals working at any level in the field, especially those who are in frontline services, can access peer mentoring, clinical/pastoral supervision and collegiate support to mitigate exposure to complex trafficking crimes and trauma.
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