Wednesday, January 4, 2023 | 10:04 p.m.
In 2022, the national government rescued and assisted 1,186 people who were victims of human trafficking, most of them women, and among the most notable operations of the year were the one carried out to dismantle a yoga sect in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Crespo, a rescue for labor exploitation in the Corrientes city of Paso de los Libres, and the raid of the therapeutic center La Razón de Vivir in Córdoba, indicated an official report.
The document of the National Program for the Rescue and Accompaniment of Persons Affected by the Crime of Trafficking of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, to which Télam had access, also highlighted the work carried out to achieve the first reparation for a victim of human trafficking.
The reparation was for a missionary woman, exploited in Santiago del Estero, and was made through the Direct Fund for Assistance to Victims of Trafficking promoted by the Federal Council for the fight against Human Trafficking and for Assistance to its Victims.
Of the total number of people rescued last year, 543 identified as men, 637 as women, and 6 as trans people. While 61 people assisted were minors.
Another piece of information from the report is that 3 out of 10 people were in a situation of sexual exploitation. In relation to nationality, 891 are Argentine and 295 foreign.
The agency’s rescue operations in 2022 were carried out in 21 provinces and in the City of Buenos Aires (CABA).
Meanwhile, the free and national telephone line 145, which is used to report crimes of human trafficking and exploitation, which works 24 hours a day, free of charge, anonymously and nationwide, received 1,589 complaints last year.
Source: Telam
