Emmanuel Thomas, Monday, June 26, 2023
TRANSCARPATHIA, Ukraine – Security officials in Transcarpathia have arrested and detained a man selling children at the border.
The man, whose name has not been disclosed was selling children between the age of one to two years for export to Europe for organ harvesting, now known globally as modern slavery.
The man was arrested at the Ukrain-Slovak border. He is said to have already managed to successfully to conduct three of such transactions at the border.
The International Labour Organisaiton, ILO estimates that 21 million people are trapped in forced labour or slavery globally and that one in four are under the age of 18.
It estimated that about 5.5 million children are trafficked globally and that they suffer violence, exploitation and abuse – ending up in work, forced marriage, prostitution, begging and armed recruitment.
However, the United Nations, UN says that child trafficking occurs in almost every nation.
According to the UN Office of Drugs and Crime’s 2014 global report on trafficking, 62% of all people trafficked in Africa and the Middle East are children.
Other regional figures are 36% in South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific, 31% in the Americas and 18% in Europe and Central Asia. Of all people trafficked in 2011, 21% were girls, 12% boys, 49% women and 18% men.
