Italy has not yet put in
place the measures needed to adequately protect the migrants and
refugees that arrive in the country from human traffickers,
according to a new Council of Europe (CoE) report.
The report by the Council of Europe's Group of Experts on
Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) called on
Rome to take urgent action to combat this problem.
It said the number of potential victims in Italy was rising,
especially for Nigerian girls and women and unaccompanied
minors. Italy is urged to improve the identification of human
trafficking victims and to take the necessary measures to tackle
the problem of the disappearance of unaccompanied minors.
The report, which comes two years after the first evaluation
of Italy, is the result of the procedure initiated by GRETA when
"it receives reliable information that indicate a situation in
which the problems require immediate attention to prevent or
limit the number of serious violations by a State of the
Anti-Human Trafficking Convention of the Council of Europe".
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