The government presents on Monday the new plan to combat the exploitation and trafficking of human beings, which it promises to strengthen in the face, in particular, of the risk of an “amplification of the phenomenon” during the 2024 Olympic Games.
The government presents on Monday the new plan to combat the exploitation and trafficking of human beings, which it promises to strengthen in the face, in particular, of the risk of an “amplification of the phenomenon” during the 2024 Olympic Games. This strategy – the third since 2014 – will be presented at the Immigration Museum in Paris, in the presence of the Minister of Equality between Women and Men Bérangère Couillard, the Secretary of State for Children Charlotte Caubel and the Secretary General of Miprof, the interministerial mission responsible for combating human trafficking, Roxana Maracineanu.
“As the Paris Games approach, we must strengthen our anti-trafficking system to be ready to identify and combat criminals who take advantage of this system,” warned Bérangère Couillard in an article published in October. “The actions of this plan will obviously attack the prostitution system, but also labor exploitation which represents the second most identified form of exploitation by internal security forces,” added the minister. “We must also fight against forced begging and incitement to commit crimes which are offenses that particularly affect minors.”
The previous plan was almost not applied, denounces the CNCDH
In 2022, 4,363 victims of human trafficking were identified in France and 2,994 were supported by associations. Among them, 76% are victims of sexual exploitation, including 94% women, according to the Ministry of the Interior. The new strategy to combat this phenomenon was initially to be announced on October 18, on the occasion of the European Day against Trafficking in Human Beings, before finally being postponed, causing a certain stir within associations.
The National Consultative Commission on Human Rights (CNCDH) for its part recalled in October that the second national action plan (2019-2021) had hardly been implemented, with only three measures applied on 44 contained in the strategy. “The absence of political support and human resources dedicated to Miprof in no way allows political action that meets” the challenges, deplored the CNCDH. She sees this as “a major failure in terms of respect for international conventions ratified by France and the defense of human rights, particularly in terms of information and protection of victims.”