Between 2,100 and 3,800 people are identified as victims of human trafficking every year in Italy, revealed the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts dedicated to combating this scourge (GRETA) on Friday 23 February, but it stressed that these figures do not reflect the scale of the phenomenon.
This underestimation is due to the persistent shortcomings of the procedures Italy has put in place to identify victims of trafficking and the low rate of reporting by these victims, who fear...