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Human trafficking is a crime against human dignity and human rights. It is present worldwide, though diverse criminal forms: trafficking and sexual exploitation, trafficking and labour exploitation, child trafficking, illegal extraction and sale of human organs, forced begging, servile marriage, and forcing people to commit criminal acts. Sexual exploitation is an extended form of human trafficking. Victims are forced to perform sexual activities while working in massage par

Rich northern countries often do not recognize the struggles they and their corporations cause over other countries' territories, over rural places, and traditional territories of Indigenous communities. They extensively resort to creating a harm narrative around migration as an uncontrolled and illegal phenomenon that affects their populations, economies, and security. 

In collaboration with the Mexican Consulate of Protection in Toronto and CHHA Radio 1610 FM, we will meet consuls from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Ecuador, Dominican Republic and Uruguay, for promoting higher commitment from the consuls to raise awareness and prevent people from becoming victims of human trafficking, and more active protection actions for those who were already victimized by either sex and/or labour trafficking and exploitation. 

Worldwide, there are more than 123.2 million people forcibly displaced from their places of origin; 60% within their own countries, and more than 43.7 million are refugees in other countries.