Combating Human Trafficking
PCI scales up efforts to address problems in Ethiopia
Project Concern International (PCI) is scaling up efforts to address the human-trafficking problem in Ethiopia, a country with one of the highest rates of internal trafficking in the world.
Through a grant awarded by the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, PCI is working to decrease trafficking and improve protection and assistance to trafficking victims by strengthening communication between organizations responding to this issue, as well as increasing prosecution of human trafficking perpetrators.
The International Organization for Migration reports that up to 20,000 children, some as young as 10 years old, are trafficked each year in Ethiopia. Children are sold for as little as $1.20 to work as domestic workers or prostitutes. The downward spiral into a life of sexual and physical abuse and exploitation often begins when poor, rural children in Ethiopia become victims of child traffickers, who promise them a better life and then sell them into a life of even greater poverty and suffering. Parents are often deceived with promises of money or a good education for their child.
Human trafficking is one of the most heinous human rights abuses of our time. According to the 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report—published by the U.S. State Department—each year, at least 800,000 men, women, and children are trafficked across national borders, a number which does not include the millions of people trafficked within their own countries. More >>> |
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