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Friday 17
December 2010 |
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More
than
3,000
Honduran
Victims
of Human
Trafficking
TEGUCIGALPA
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At least
3,500
Hondurans
were
victims
of human
trafficking
during
2010, as
reported
in a
meeting
on the
issue in
session
in
Tegucigalpa
on
Thursday.
Most
cases
have
been
women
and
children,
as they
are more
vulnerable
to
sexual
and
labor
exploitation,
said
Deputy
Foreign
Minister
Alrden
Rivera
in the
meeting
"Human
Trafficking:
Coordinated
Responses
from the
State,
and
International
Cooperation."
According
to
Rivera,
this
phenomenon
has
intensified
in
Honduras,
linked
to an
increase
in the
migratory
wave,
mainly
of
people
who
leave
the
country
for the
United
States.
Nearly
75,000
people
have
left the
country
this
year,
five
percent
of them
allegedly
victims
of human
trafficking,
he said.
Parallel
to the
migration
increase
there
has also
been a
rise in
reports
of
people
missing
in the
process.
He said
that
right
now,
offices
of
consular
affairs
of the
Foreign
Ministry
have
about
600
files of
families
who lost
contact
with
their
relatives
in 2010,
including
32
Hondurans
victims
of the
massacre
in
Tamaulipas,
where 72
illegal
immigrants
of
Central
and
South
America
were
killed.
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