Aid workers warn over risks of human trafficking
Concerns on how to protect women from becoming victims of human trafficking at border crossing are growing.
Mornay, a former member of the French Foreign Legion who is helping refugees at the Medyka border crossing between Poland and Ukraine told Al Jazeera that his team found three men trying to get several women into a van.
“I cannot say 100 percent they were trying to recruit them for sex trafficking, but when we approach them they got nervous and they just left immediately,” he said.
Romania’s local authorities also told Al Jazeera they have been working on advising women to make sure to have they phone battery charged and to remember the car’s tag they board once they have crossed the border.
Annual global profit over sexual exploitation is around $32 billion, a EU commission’s report showed, a figure that rises during humanitarian crisis. “The risk of some capitalizing on the pain of these people is very high,” said Andreea Bujor, an aid worker with World Vision Romania.