A national hotline to help victims and survivors of human trafficking is now taking calls, with the organization behind the service saying it hoped the new resource would also fill crucial gaps in public knowledge about the issue. The multilingual, accessible hotline, an initiative of the Canadian Centre to End Human Trafficking, launched at 7 a.m. “In actual fact … human trafficking is happening in communities right across this country. Gosse noted that human trafficking, while it frequently relates to sexual exploitation of young girls, can also refer to labour trafficking as well. Statistics Canada, which has tracked instances of police-reported human trafficking, said the practice has been steadily on the rise since 2010.

Source: thestar May 29, 2019 12:11 UTC