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UN PhotoInnovative Partnerships to End Trafficking in Women and Girls: The Santa Marta Group Model (CSW68 Side Event)
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This event will bring together speakers with experience in different areas of these efforts with a view to sharing their experiences in working to end human trafficking through innovative partnerships and collaboration.
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Driven by many factors—poverty, war, political instability, climate change, mass migration—human trafficking is a multifaceted reality with one common characteristic: it deprives victims of their freedom and traps them in webs of exploitation and abuse. Of the victims who are detected, roughly 60 percent are female, and, as victims, women and children often face more violent forms of exploitation.
The scourge of trafficking in persons has received greater attention and is the subject of international conventions and a global action plan. However, this terrible crime remains pernicious and difficult to fight. Despite increased attention and collaboration, many gaps remain at all levels regarding how trafficking works and how best to intervene to rescue and support trafficking victims, particularly women and girls.
Organizers: The Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, the Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Philippines to the United Nations, and the Santa Marta Group.