International: Put Survivors at Centre of Policies to Stop Human Trafficking, Better Protect Victims, Deputy Secretary-General Tells General Assembly (Press release)
United Nations – November 22, 2021
Women and girls are disproportionately targeted by traffickers and forced into marriage, including child marriage, as well as domestic servitude and forced labour. The latest United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Global Report on Trafficking in Persons shows that around one third of all detected victims are children, a share that has tripled over the past 15 years. More and more children are being targeted by traffickers using social media to recruit new victims and profiting from the demand for child sexual exploitation materials.
https://www.un.org/press/en/2021/dsgsm1671.doc.htm