Arrest human traffickers who use persons with disability as beggars

A beggar asks for alms from motorists held up in traffic on Uhuru Highway. Francis Nderitu | Nation Media Group

July 30 was the annual World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. The day is used to highlight the plight and challenges faced by adults and children who are survivors of trafficking in persons also known as human trafficking, and to create awareness of this international crime. Those involved in the exploitative and abusive criminality usually recruit and sell their fellow human beings, including children, into not only slave-like labour conditions, domestic work and prostitution, but also subject them to serious violation of their human rights…WON Executive Director Njeri Rugene writes in Daily Nation. Read more…