EU countries in the dark on human trafficking

Member states lack reliable data to fully evaluate the scale of human trafficking in the EU the European Commission said on Monday (24 September).

Member state statistics on human trafficking are sometimes unreliable, says the European Commission.

"We have so few figures and so few reliable statistics that it is difficult to make an evaluation to see if there is a significant increase or a decrease, we can’t really tell because it is such a black and grey sector," noted EU home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom.

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