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Payments to smugglers have exceeded $16 billion in the last 15 years…
Refugees pose an overwhelming humanitarian crisis for Europe. As hundreds of thousands seek safety, they are paying immense sums of money to smugglers. Europe’s crisis is not only an urgent humanitarian disaster, but it has also increased the incredibly lucrative industry of human trafficking.
As we enter a new year, we do so having recently marked a significant milestone in the global fight against human trafficking: the 25th anniversary of both the UN Palermo Protocol and the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Adopted in 2000, these two frameworks reshaped how governments understand, prevent, and respond to modern slavery. Yet anniversaries are not only moments of celebration—they are moments of reckoning. A quarter-century on,
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