Drug dealers making billions from trafficking in women, says UN

DRUG barons worldwide are turning to trafficking women and generating billions in profits, a UN conference in Dublin was told yesterday.

Sean Hand, Human Resources chief with the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF), said there were about 95 million migrant women worldwide, constituting almost half of all international migrant workers.

Millions of female migrants are experiencing the dark side of such migration, including enslavement, exploitation and abuse as domestic workers.