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Hyland

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2017-03-15
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  1. “The integration of the fight against modern slavery into the Sustainable Development Goals - and Goal 8.7 in particular - reflects the commitment of Member States to holistically tackle this crime. I very much welcome the Secretary-General's leadership on this issue, and I know he will be reporting at the end of the year on the implementation of resolution 2331 (2016). Until there is a more strategic international response, there can be no doubt that this modern slavery crisis, fuelled by global conflict, will only get worse with each passing day. Working across borders, traffickers are making huge profits at the expense of human suffering. The international community must act now.”

    2017-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7898 (2017) · source

  2. “But, unfortunately, at present that is the exception rather than the norm. I would also encourage suitable training for all United Nations peacekeepers, as they will often be operating across routes known to be used by traffickers, especially in places such as Mali and the Sudan. We need a more strategic and holistic response. Tackling the traffickers and protecting the vulnerable will only be achieved by utilizing all of the levers at the international community's disposal. That means deploying the United Nations leverage through development and humanitarian efforts, criminal-justice capacity-building, political work and peacekeeping operations.”

    2017-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7898 (2017) · source

  3. “All of the Nigerian survivors whom I met wanted to tell me about the identities, tactics and routes of the traffickers. Unfortunately, that information is not being routinely collected, analysed or acted on. Much more must be done to protect the vulnerable. I strongly welcome resolution 2331 (2016), which calls for the systematic integration of proactive responses against slavery and trafficking into humanitarian responses to conflicts and related emergencies. This is urgent. On visits to reception centres I witnessed how the current absence of integrated protection is resulting in potential victims not being identified. Traffickers view refugee camps as a rich source of new victims. I have seen the positive impact that the deployment of dedicated experts can have, including cultural mediators.”

    2017-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7898 (2017) · source

  4. “I therefore urge international organizations and Member States, and in particular the law-enforcement and intelligence agencies, to prioritize efforts to strengthen cross- border collaboration aimed at investigating, disrupting and dismantling human-trafficking networks that are profiting from conflict and human suffering. We need high-profile convictions of the organizers of trafficking in order that that can serve as a deterrent to others. That can be achieved through the increased use of joint investigation teams, multilateral prosecutions and data- and intelligence-sharing. We need to get smarter at debriefing victims and sensitively sharing that information with law-enforcement and victim-support agencies so as to inform efforts aimed at disruption and protection.”

    2017-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7898 (2017) · source

  5. “Women who insist they will not work as prostitutes are tied up in a position called "the crocodile". Their hands are tied to their feet and they are left for days without food or water. Some are left to die as an example to others. The Government of the United Kingdom recently announced at least £5 million aimed at work in partnership with Nigeria to help tackle this trafficking at the source. Prime Minister Theresa May has committed the United Kingdom to international leadership in combating modern slavery. Unless those behind the trade in human lives are pursued and punished, vulnerable people will continue to be sourced, used, abused and replaced, and be treated as mere commodities.”

    2017-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7898 (2017) · source

  6. “For example, for decades, transnational traffickers have operated in southern Nigeria, deceiving victims with false promises ofbetter lives in Europe. But what was a trickle has now become a flow. Such criminals are taking advantage of conflict and instability in the Lake Chad basin and Libya and have massively scaled up their trafficking operations by utilizing those now-ungoverned routes. In 2016, just over 11,000 Nigerian women arrived in Italy from Libya. That is as an eightfold increase from the numbers arriving in 2014. The International Organization for Migration believes that 80 per cent are trafficking victims destined for brothels across Europe. I have visited Edo state, the main region where traffickers source their victims. This trafficking is especially brutal in nature.”

    2017-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7898 (2017) · source

  7. “In October last year, the International Organization for Migration reported that over 70 per cent of all migrants moving from North Africa to Europe had experienced exploitation and human trafficking, mainly in Libya. A modern-day slave trade is now booming in Libya. Political, military and social conditions have created an environment where traffickers have thrived. Militias are subjecting migrants to forced labour and sexual exploitation in detention centres until they pay off a ransom to allow passage to Europe. Those centres are forced labour camps, set up to profit from the organized exploitation of migrants. Long-established transnational organized crime groups are also using power vacuums caused by conflict to increase their trafficking operations.”

    2017-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7898 (2017) · source

  8. “The wars in Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia alone are responsible for more than half the world's refugees. The number of displaced people has risen to 65 million, the largest figure ever recorded. Men, women and children fleeing conflict are extremely vulnerable to numerous forms of modern slavery, including sexual exploitation, forced labour and even organ trafficking. The European Police Office has confirmed that traffickers are increasingly targeting refugees in the European Union. Nearly half of all refugees are children, many of whom are unaccompanied, and therefore especially vulnerable. I met Sarah, a 15-year-old Eritrean girl, at a reception camp in Lampedusa. Sarah had been kidnapped and held for three months in Libya in a so-called connection house, where she was sexually exploited multiple times every day.”

    2017-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7898 (2017) · source

  9. “Mr. Hyland: As the United Kingdom's first appointed Independent Anti-slavery Commissioner, my role is to spearhead the United Kingdom's efforts to tackle modern slavery, both domestically and internationally. We are here today in recognition of the fact that conflict has become a major driver of modern slavery across the globe. Terrorist organizations openly advocate slavery as a tactic of war. Da'esh has targeted minority groups for forced labour and sexual exploitation. It has established slave markets where women and children are sold with a price tag attached. Conflict also produces an environment that enables modern slavery to flourish. Erosion of the rule of law enables transnational trafficking networks to act with impunity. Conflict results in the displacement of vulnerable people who are then targeted by the traffickers.”

    2017-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7898 (2017) · source