The UN’s Latest Report Shows Trafficking Is Shifting in Alarming Ways

The UN’s Latest Report Shows Trafficking Is Shifting in Alarming Ways

Human trafficking rarely announces itself. It slips into the world quietly, disguised as opportunity, employment or safety. A teenager trusts a man offering a ride to the city. A woman displaced by flooding accepts a job abroad. A migrant worker signs a contract he can’t read but feels he must. What begins as survival becomes captivity — not always with chains or locked doors, but with debt, coercion and the slow erosion of choice. That erosion …