Figures released by the National Crime Agency in September estimated that 2,744 people, including 602 children, were trafficked for exploitation in the UK in 2013, a 22% increase on 2012, with some forced to work in brothels, others in domestic servitude, and others exploited in factories, on farms and building sites.
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Figures from the National Crime Agency in September estimated that 2,744 people, including 602 children, were trafficked for exploitation in the UK in 2013, a 22% increase on 2012, and forced to work in brothels, in domestic servitude, or exploited in factories, farms and building sites.
39.7% women were trafficked for exploitation in Turkey, 27.5% in Russia, 11.6% in the EU and 21.2% elsewhere (including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Israel, Kosovo, Serbia, Ukraine, and the UAE).
To our knowledge this was the first study to collect quantitative data on the physical health symptoms reported by women accessing post-trafficking support services following trafficking for labour exploitation.
Trafficking people for exploitation, under the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants etc) Act 2004.
"Various sources indicate that tattoos are used globally to mark victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation by traffickers and pimps, but the extent to which this is used in the UK is not known".
It is vital that anti-trafficking policies and programs now expand their focus beyond trafficking for sexual exploitation and recognize and provide for the needs and vulnerabilities of victims of labour exploitation.
Although the IOM estimates that approximately 33% of victims of trafficking are trafficked for labour exploitation [ 5], expertise in caring for trafficked people has been developed primarily in relation to trafficking for sexual exploitation.
The harms caused by trafficking for labour exploitation have received much less attention to date than those caused by sexual exploitation, and the health needs of people trafficked for labour exploitation have been neglected as a topic of research.
We are aware of only two studies which report on the physical health symptoms experienced by women who have been trafficked for sexual exploitation and of no studies that report on the physical health problems associated with trafficking for labour exploitation [ 8, 14].
