UN says human trafficking is getting worse.

The United Nations has again emphasised that the problem of human trafficking is getting worse. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, speaking at an Asia-Pacific human rights conference in Beijing said that “By its very nature, it constitutes an acute violation of human rights and reports today suggest that more people are being trafficked than ever before,” The International Labour organisation estimates that more than 2 million people are trafficked every year. “No country or region is immune,” UNICEF executive director Ann Veneman said. “Children are forced into prostitution, begging and soliciting, labour on plantations and in mines, markets, factories and domestic work.”
China has a large scale human trafficking problem with women being kidnapped and sold into forced marriages as well as women and children being sold into prostitution and forced labour. Security was tight around the conference and, when questioned on the Chinese human rights record, Chinese State Councillor Tang Jiaxuan kept to the usual line “Every country should choose its own way to protect human rights according to its national situation,”
Human trafficking can only be fought properly when human rights are respected.