More emphasis needed on stopping the demand for trafficked women

“I think there has not been emphasis on rich destination countries probably maybe subconsciously there was more emphasis on source countries, poorer source countries …. In this coming report we are going to focus more on destination countries and demand.” said John Miller, the director of the US office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, at a seminar held this month at Harvard University.
In the past the US Trafficking in Persons report has been a strong tool for putting pressure on poorer countries which act as source countries for women and children being trafficked into slavery, but has not been used so much to pressurise rich countries to curb the demand which creates the market.
“Every wealthy nation in the world is involved, they’re involved maybe not as source countries, but as destination countries, so we have an obligation there and we have an obligation when it comes to demand when it originates in destination countries.” John Miller said. You can watch the entire seminar by following the link found on the page linked here.