20 million victims of human trafficking: ILO

July 28, 2012 00:17

More than 20 million people are victims of human trafficking, said the International Labour Organization as it launched an awareness campaign coinciding with the London Olympics.

In the campaign, the ILO has set up brightly coloured large walk-in 'gift boxes' that promise passers-by a better life, only to reveal images on the realities of human trafficking in black and white on the inside.

The boxes' interiors display victims' faces and their stories, as well as information about human trafficking provided by the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT).

"Every minute of every hour of every day, men, women and children are forced to travel around the world to make gold for someone else: they have been trafficked," the group said.

The ILO said that every day around three out of every 1,000 people worldwide are in forced labour.

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