Persons with disabilities, including women and girls with disabilities are at a higher risk of exploitation and may be more at risk of trafficking in persons than persons without disabilities. Examples of trafficking faced by persons with disabilities are forced begging of persons, including children, with physical disabilities and sexual exploitation of women with intellectual or psychosocial disabilities.
The European Disability Forum calls on the EU to revise the Anti-Trafficking Directive to enhance the protection against trafficking of the most disadvantaged groups, including persons with disabilities and their access to justice and victims’ support services, as well as to take into consideration the increasing of trafficking cases facilitated by internet and social media.
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- EDF position on combatting human trafficking (PDF document)
- EDF position on combatting human trafficking (Word document)