The 2024 UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons is the eighth of its kind mandated by the General Assembly through the 2010 United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons. This edition of the Global Report provides a snapshot of the trafficking patterns and flows at global, regional and national levels. It covers 156 countries and provides an overview of the response to the trafficking in persons by analysing trafficking cases detected between 2019 and 2023. A major focus of this edition of the Report is on trends of detections and convictions that show the changes compared to historical trends since UNODC started to collect data in 2003, and following the Covid-19 Pandemic.
The findings are further informed and enriched through the analysis of summaries of more than 1000 court cases adjudicated between 2012 and 2023, providing closer insights into the crime, its victims and perpetrators, and how trafficking in persons comes to the attention of authorities.
As with previous years, this edition of the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons presents a global picture of the trends, patterns and flows of trafficking (Chapter 1), alongside detailed regional analyses (Chapter 3). This edition of the Global Report presents a special chapter on Africa (Chapter 2) produced with the purpose of unveiling trafficking patterns and flows within the African continent. The chapter is based on unprecedented number of African countries covered for the Global Report.
This edition of the Report presents a new contribution from an early career and young academic researchers, as part of UNODC’s Generation 30 initiative, aimed at building new connections between the UN and academia, while expanding research opportunities for young people. The contributions featured in the report was submitted in response to a call for proposals issued on the UNODC website in 2023.
In addition, the data collected by UNODC since the first edition of the Global Report in 2009, the largest existing dataset on trafficking in persons, with information on victims and their profiles and (suspected) offenders detected worldwide between 2003 and 2023, is now available on the UNODC data portal.
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Generation 30 initiative GLOTIP26 edition CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS FROM YOUNG RESEARCHERS ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
To early career researchers studying Trafficking in Persons, Generation 30 is an initiative of the UNODC Research and Analysis Branch (RAB) that provides an opportunity to young researchers to contribute to the 2026 edition of the UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons. UNODC welcomes contributions from early career scholars who have conducted empirical research on trafficking in persons and related topics. Selected submission(s) will be featured in the 2026 edition of the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons. Author(s) of the selected contribution(s) will be acknowledged for their contribution in a dedicated section of the Report. Insights from a broad spectrum of areas are welcomed. The research evaluation will be based on the quality of the methodology, on the clarity of the ethical standards adopted during the research and on the novelty of the research angle.