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    Human Trafficking Reaches 'Horrific' New Heights, Declares U.N. Report

    A new report from the U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime finds that violent conflict is creating new opportunities for traffickers — and children and girls are increasingly targeted.
    by Diane Cole Jan 14, 2019 3 minutes
    Kamal Hosen and Rahima Khartoum, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, hold a photograph of their 14-year-old son, Din Mohammad. A victim of human trafficking, he was eventually rescued from a camp in Thailand.

    Human trafficking has taken on "horrific" dimensions, according to the 2018 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons released this month by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

    The report, which looked at data from 142 countries between 2014 and 2016, points to two particularly disturbing trends, says Angela Me, chief of the research and trend team at UNODC. The first is the increasing number of girls forced into trafficking, most frequently for sexual exploitation. The other is the growing prevalence of trafficking as

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