2024 Trafficking in Persons Report: Spain - U.S. Department of …
As reported over the past five years, human traffickers exploit foreign victims in Spain and, to a lesser extent, Spanish victims in Spain and abroad. Authorities report Colombian, Paraguayan, and Venezuelan women now make up the largest demographic of sex trafficking victims.
2021 Trafficking in Persons Report: Spain - U.S. Department of …
As reported over the past five years, human traffickers exploit foreign victims in Spain and to a lesser extent, Spanish victims in Spain and abroad. Labor trafficking is under-identified in Spain. Authorities report the pandemic increased worker vulnerabilities and contributed to the rise in labor trafficking in 2020, especially in Catalonia.
Human trafficking in Spain - Wikipedia
From 2017 to 2021, the government identified 1687 victims of human trafficking (an average of more than one a day); 5% of them were children. [5] In 2023, the Organised Crime Index gave the country a score of 7 out of 10 for human trafficking, noting that most activity was by Romanian, Chinese and Nigerian groups working in Andalusia. [6]
2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: Spain - U.S. Department of …
As reported over the past five years, human traffickers exploit foreign victims in Spain and, to a lesser extent, Spanish victims in Spain and abroad. Labor trafficking is under-identified in Spain.
Spain: general information on the situation on trafficking in human ...
One of the elements that remained unchanged is the situation of our country as a destination and transit country of the victims of trafficking in human beings. The strategic location of Spain in Europe makes it the door of two continents: South America and Africa.
In Spain, human trafficking is a crime persecuted and punished by the Criminal Code. The purpose of this crime is exploitation, which includes sexual, labor, begging, trafficking of organs, and slavery. The consent of the victim becomes irrelevant when it is shown that it was obtained by unlawful means. The
2016 Trafficking in Persons Report Country Narrative: Spain
Jan 20, 2009 · Unaccompanied migrant children in Spain continue to be vulnerable to sex trafficking and forced begging. Police and other officials have been investigated, charged, and convicted for complicity in human trafficking crimes.
Law enforcement agencies rescued 1,466 victims of trafficking …
May 13, 2024 · In terms of actions taken against networks that undertake human trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation, 195 victims were rescued, two of them minors. The majority of the victims are male, between 23 and 27 years old, from Colombia, Moldova or Morocco.
13 victims of human trafficking safeguarded in Spain | Europol
Mar 12, 2024 · Europol has supported the Spanish National Police (Policía Nacional) and the Polish Border Guard (Straż Graniczna) in an operation targeting a criminal organisation trafficking human beings for the purposes of sexual and labour exploitation in Spain.
GRETA publishes its third report on Spain - Action against Trafficking …
The Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) has urged the Spanish authorities to guarantee effective access to compensation to victims of human trafficking and to increase proactive investigations into …