"The knowledge gained from our workshops doesn't stay in the meeting room," saysStojneAtanasovskaDimishkovska, as she wraps up a regional meeting on child exploitation in South Eastern Europe and prepares for the mock trial of a trafficking case.
When a Venezuelan migrant fled her abusers in Ecuador and crossed the border illegally into Peru, she could have faced deportation and further traumatization.
Instead, due to a project initiated by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
(UNODC), she received the support and protection she needed, despite her irregular status.
Aura, a Colombian grandmother, has just crossed one of the most dangerous routes in the Americas: the Darien Gap. The Gap is a dense tropical forest covering over 575,000 hectares across Panama and Colombia.
The criminal networks thatsmuggle migrantson the long and dangerous routes from South Asia to North America have become more ruthless, professional and richer.
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