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Melba Miñano's portfolio releases information about this day on municipal news channels to emphasize the importance of eradicating exploitation and human trafficking.The International Day Against Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking in Persons has been celebrated on September 23 since 1999 and was promulgated by the World Conference of the Coalition Against Human Trafficking in coordination with the Women's Conference that took place in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in January of that same year.It was on September 23, 1913 when the first law in the world against child prostitution was enacted.

It was in Argentina with the so-called "Palacios Law", because it was drafted and promoted by the Socialist deputy Alfredo Palacios.What is human trafficking?It consists of the purchase, sale and exploitation of children and adults, for various destinations such as organ trafficking, forced labor, with sexual exploitation being the most frequent destination for girls and women.According to the council, it is estimated that, in the world, 1.8 million people are victims of crimes of trafficking in persons for sexual exploitation, a scourge that is only comparable to drug and arms trafficking.Human traffickers take advantage of situations of poverty, lack of education, natural disasters, wars and other circumstances, to steal children or adults and sell them to the mafias.Sexual exploitation mainly affects women and girls, it is one of the most terrible businesses in the world, if not the largest.Migration crises have been exploited by criminal networks to act against the most vulnerable.

Traffickers increasingly abuse asylum systems.

For example, there has been an increase in cases of disappearance of Nigerian girls and women who leave Libya seeking a better life, and who have been destined for sexual exploitation.For this reason, the City Council of Cieza, through its Department of Women, wants these situations of exploitation of people to be less and less.

In addition to continuing to work so that such situations do not occur in the municipality, abolish prostitution and eradicate trafficking in human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation, defend the dignity of women and end the networks and mafias that profit by exploiting women.

women, girls and boys.Likewise, the City Council of Cieza shares the United Nations call for the response to COVID-19 and subsequent recovery worldwide to assign a priority place to human dignity and human rights.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cieza