Human trafficking is the world’s fastest growing criminal enterprise and is an estimated US$32 billion-a-year global industry.
The resolution had come about only a few months before the world was shocked by the abduction of the Chibok girls by Boko Haram and the Daesh attack on Sinjar resulting in abductions of thousands of Yazidi girls and women. Both incidents were the extreme cases of mass kidnapping and human trafficking.
On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram abducted 276 girls, mostly between 16 and 18years of age, from a secondary school in Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. The girls would have been used as sex or labour slaves and used as suicide bombers.
On August 3, 2014, Daesh attacked Sinjar killing many and forcing the remaining to flee. Over 3,200 women and children were believed to have been trafficked by Daesh to Syria where women and girls would have been subjected to sexual exploitation and boys indoctrinated and used as child soldiers.
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