Africa: Exploitation of Desperate Workers Should Never Be the 'New Normal', Says UN Expert

Geneva — The rampant exploitation of vulnerable workers, including many women and children, has increased alarmingly during the COVID-19 pandemic and urgent new measures are needed at the international and national levels to help stamp it out, a UN expert said today.

Those who have lost jobs and been reduced to starvation - for example in tourism or domestic work - have been forced to accept even more exploitative conditions, the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, said. She made the following statement marking World Day against Trafficking in Persons:

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