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Link to: Findings from the Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery National Minimum Dataset pilot, July to December 2022

The Australian Institute of Criminology has released a new Statistical Report describing the findings from the Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery National Minimum Dataset pilot data collection, conducted over a six-month period from July to December 2022.

• The Australian Federal Police received 150 reports of alleged human trafficking, slavery and slavery-like practices (modern slavery) between
  1 July and 31 December 2022. Reports most commonly related to allegations of forced marriage (31%), followed by sexual servitude
  (25%), trafficking of persons out of Australia (21%) and forced labour (12%).
• Between 1 July and 31 December 2022, 36 victim-survivors of modern slavery were referred to the Support for Trafficked People Program. Most were female (94%) and 44 percent were aged under 18. The highest proportion of victim-survivors were born in Southern and Central Asia (31%), Oceania and Antarctica (28%) and North Africa and the Middle East (17%).
• Between 1 July and 31 December 2022, 15 matters involving human trafficking, slavery and slavery-like offences were either referred to, or continued by, the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions. At 31 December 2022, 20 of the 24 defendants had been charged with a total of 55 human trafficking and modern slavery offences.

Read the AIC media release.