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Mexico takes the second place worldwide for prostitution, second only to Thailand, according to numbers released by legislators.
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The representative, Ricardo Meijia, part of the Movimiento Ciudadano party, presented an initiative to reform laws to sanction human trafficking with heavy sanctions. Photo: AFP -
According to the report, the states with the most illegal activity are Quintana Roo, Yucatan, Jalisco, Chiapas, Oaxaca and Guerrero.
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Said states are among the 18 that represent 90% of the criminal phenomenon, according to the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR).
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In the document delivered to the Justice Commission of the House of Representatives for examinations, it states that globally human trafficking is one of the most lucrative businesses in the world, after that of arms and drugs trafficking. Photo: AFP -
The profits for this crimes can be up to 8 and 10 billion a year according to the International Work Organization (OIT).
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The OIT signaled that 2.4 million people in the world are subject to exploitation as a result of human trafficking.
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The reform proposed by the representative, Ricardo Monreal Avila, also ascertains that human trafficking is present in diverse forms, but that they all have a common trend of transforming people into merchandize, subject to the supply and demand of black markets controlled by organized crime.
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He stressed that when it comes to the General Law to prevent, sanction and eradicate Human trafficking there is much left to do.
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It is not enough to solve the problem, as there is a need to categorize the drime within the Federal Penal Code, said Monreal Avila.
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It is proposed that Article 207 of the Penal Code be created, in which subjects that commit the crime of human trafficking, through action or neglect or the capture, transporting, retention receiving, housing of these people through deception, threat, physical or moral harm, abuse of power, or exploiting vulnerable situation for sexual exploitation or forced labor. Photo: AFP -
This would include those that commit the act of slavery or analogous relationships, like forced labor, forced marriage or servility.
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Regardless they will be subject to to labor exploitation, the trafficking of organs, or selling cells of life human beings for illegal biomedical experimentation.
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The trafficking of humans will be sanctioned with 5 to 15 years of prison and a fine between 65 thousand and 130 thousand fine (in Pesos). Photo: AFP
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Mexico takes the second place worldwide for prostitution, second only to Thailand, according to numbers released by legislators.
Photo: AFP
