It found that victimization grew as law enforcement and other resources were diverted to managing public health measures at the height of the pandemic. “While the number of individuals at risk of trafficking grew during the pandemic, so did the conditions under which traffickers thrive,” concluded the State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons Report, released on Thursday. So we must do everything we can as a country, but also as a global community to stop trafficking wherever it occurs. And as more people spent hours online for school and work, traffickers used the internet to groom and recruit potential victims. People who are pushed into dire economic circumstances by the pandemic became more vulnerable to exploitation. Human traffickers seized the opportunity to grow their operations. And while the practices are the most egregious in Xinjiang, this year’s report notes that China has subjected its citizens to coercive labor practices in other parts of the country as well. Many detainees are subjected to physical violence, sexual abuse and torture to induce them to work, producing apparel, electronics, solar equipment, agricultural products. The Chinese government has detained more than one million people in as many as 1,200 state-run internment camps throughout Xinjiang.
We also report on what’s happening in Xinjiang, in the autonomous region of China. This crime is an affront to human rights. Millions of trafficking victims are children. Many are forced to work in factories or fields or to join armed groups.
Many are compelled into commercial sex work. The estimate we often cite is that nearly 25 million people worldwide are victims of human trafficking. Blinken warned that some countries were not doing enough to stop human trafficking. Transcript Blinken Says Coronavirus Restrictions Increased the Risk of Human Trafficking The State Department released a report which assessed cases of reported human trafficking and exploitation between April 2020 and March 2021.
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