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Female role in human trafficking spurs shock

 
By The Associated Press | Published: February 13, 2009   

UNITED NATIONS — Surprisingly, the perpetrators behind human trafficking around the world are often women, the U.N. reported Thursday.

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• The report also pointed out that women and girls suffer most from sexual abuse.


• About 20 percent of victims globally were children.

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Women are the majority of traffickers in almost a third of the 155 nations the U.N. surveyed.

They accounted for more than 60 percent of the human trafficking convictions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

For many, human trafficking is a world that they have been pulled into themselves.

"Women commit crimes against women, and in many cases the victims become the perpetrators,” said Antonio Maria Costa, director of the Vienna-based U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. "They become the matrons of the business and they make money. It’s like a drug addiction.”

Most of the nations reported some form of "modern slavery” last year involving mainly the sex trade or forced labor.

And the number of victims should grow as the global financial crisis deepens, Costa said.

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