The European Commission published, on Wednesday 21 October, its third report on progress in the fight against trafficking in human beings since 2017, in which it notes that the number of victims is on the rise and that the majority of them are women and girls.
According to the institution's communiqué, progress has been made in several areas such as transnational cooperation “thanks to the joint efforts of Europol and Eurojust”, but the crime continues to evolve and the Covid-19...