Organized crime profits from human trafficking a cancer on legal economy, says OSCE Special Representative

The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, participated in a meeting of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Organized Crime in The Hague on 28 June 2011.

Giammarinaro stressed that trafficking in human beings is an inexhaustible source of illicit profits, made by exacting unpaid work from people reduced to slavery. Such profits are constantly reinvested and laundered, and therefore tend to infiltrate many sectors of the legal economy.   

Created in 2008, the Global Agenda Council on Organized Crime is a network of multidisciplinary stakeholders that aims to galvanize investment in the rule of law, in proactive law enforcement strategies, and in building public support for crime-proofing techniques that protect society and improve the world. Council meetings convene leading experts and personalities from a variety of professional backgrounds, including academia, journalism and international organizations.