What are the statistics of human trafficking in Australia?
The estimated number of modern slavery victims in Australia over the two-year period from 2015–16 to 2016–17 was 1,567 victims (including the 414 observed victims). Accounting for a five percent margin of error, the number of actual victims is between 1,342 and 1,897.
What is the extent of human trafficking?
According to ILO, there are currently an estimated 21 million forced labor victims worldwide, creating $150 billion in illegal profits in the private economy each year. December 2 is the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.
What has Australia done for human trafficking?
Australia has ratified the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) and its supplementary Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (Trafficking Protocol).
How bad is human trafficking in Australia?
The extent of human trafficking in Australia is difficult to quantify. However, it has been estimated that between 300 and 1000 persons are victims of trafficking a year. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) lists Australia as one of 21 trafficking destination countries in the high destination category.
How many slaves are in Australia?
15,000
The Global Slavery Index 2018 estimates that on any given day in 2016, there were 15,000 living in conditions of modern slavery in Australia, a prevalence of 0.6 victims of modern slavery for every thousand people in the country.
Is human trafficking a problem in Australia?
Human trafficking in Australia is illegal under Divisions 270 and 271 of the Criminal Code (Cth). The extent of human trafficking in Australia is difficult to quantify. However, it has been estimated that between 300 and 1000 persons are victims of trafficking a year.
Is human trafficking increasing in Australia?
In 2019, the government referred 213 suspected cases of trafficking for possible investigation, an increase compared with 179 in 2018 and 166 in 2017, and initiated prosecutions against nine defendants, also an increase compared with two in 2018 and six in 2017.
Is slavery legal in Australia?
Slavery has been illegal in the (former) British Empire since the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade of 1807, and certainly since 1833. Slavery practices emerged in Australia in the 19th century and in some places endured until the 1950s.