{"id":4053,"date":"2021-07-30T22:28:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T22:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/en\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2021-07-30T22:28:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T22:28:09","slug":"the-covid-19-pandemic-has-pushed-up-to-124-million-more-people-into-extreme-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/the-covid-19-pandemic-has-pushed-up-to-124-million-more-people-into-extreme-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed up to 124 million more people into extreme poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><em>On World Day this year, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) launched a campaign titled \u201cVictims&#8217; Voices Leads the Way\u201d to highlight untold stories of victims and their role in the fight against trafficking.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>The UN has urged states to take action against human trafficking, one-third of the victims of which are children.<\/p>\n<p>For the UN, the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed up to 124 million more people into extreme poverty, and &#8220;several million&#8221; have remained vulnerable to the scourge.<\/p>\n<p>According to United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, half of the victims in low-income countries are children, adding that most are trafficked for the purpose of forced labor.<\/p>\n<p>On World Day this year, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) launched a campaign titled \u201cVictims&#8217; Voices Leads the Way\u201d to highlight untold stories of victims and their role in the fight against trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>UNODC helps countries and all stakeholders to implement the Trafficking in Persons Protocol and develop victim-centered approaches.<br \/>\nwww.un.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On World Day this year, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) launched a campaign titled \u201cVictims&#8217; Voices Leads the Way\u201d to highlight untold stories of victims and their role in the fight against trafficking. The UN has urged states to take action against human trafficking, one-third of the victims of which are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}