TIRANA, July 20 – Albania remains a leading origin country for sex workers trafficked to the United Kingdom, several British media outlets reported this week.
Other leading source countries are Nigeria, Vietnam and Romania, according to the reports.
The data came out after the Home Office, UK’s equivalent of the Ministry of Interior, said 11 people were sentenced for trafficking sex workers from Hungary to Britain.
According to a report by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, up to 13,000 victims of modern slavery in Britain are forced to work in factories and farms, sold for sex in brothels or kept in domestic servitude, among other forms of slavery.
Most come from Albania, Nigeria, Vietnam and Romania, the Home Office said.
“While in many cases the women were voluntarily working in prostitution, they were trafficked here to be exploited and controlled, the women having to give up to half of their earnings for the privilege of working in a house or brothel run by the defendants,” prosecutor Baljit Ubhey said in a statement.
The global industry is estimated to generate $150 billion a year in profits for those who exploit modern-day slaves.
