Remarks of the Executive Director, UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Yury Fedotov: Security Council Ministerial Open Debate on Trafficking in Persons in Conflict Situations: Forced labour, slavery and other similar practices
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For information only - not an official document UNIS/CP/961 15 March 2017 Remarks of the Executive Director, UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Yury Fedotov: 15 March 2017 VIENNA, 15 March (UN Information Service) - My thanks to the Security Council and the UK Presidency for your unflagging attention to the crime of human trafficking in conflict situations. We continue to witness criminals and terrorists exploiting instability and vulnerability. As the Secretary-General has just observed, human trafficking thrives where the rule of law is weak and non-existent. Armed groups are engaging in human trafficking, capturing and coercing young girls and boys into sexual slavery, or to be used as forced...