Spain - United States Department of State
The rising numbers of undocumented migrants arriving by sea, especially departing from Mauritania, Morrocco, and Senegal, including to the Canary Islands, are vulnerable to trafficking. Unaccompanied migrant children continue to be vulnerable to sex trafficking and forced begging. Labor trafficking remains under-identified in Spain.
Spain - United States Department of State
The Civil Guard reported organizing several conferences that covered human trafficking and included training for 70 new officers from all over the country; the Civil Guard also reported developing its first extensive e-learning course on human trafficking. ... including 22,300 to the Canary Islands in 2021, are vulnerable to trafficking ...
Spain - United States Department of State
As of September, more than 1,600 unaccompanied minors had arrived in the Canary Islands. UNHCR reported centers housing unaccompanied children in the Canary Islands continued to be overcrowded. NGOs reported that unaccompanied children in protection centers or immigration detention centers were vulnerable to trafficking.
2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: Spain - U.S. Department of State
The rising numbers of newly arrived undocumented migrants, including 15,682 to the Canary Islands in 2022, are vulnerable to trafficking. Unaccompanied migrant children continue to be vulnerable to sex trafficking and forced begging.
Many migrants are smuggled only to end up traficked for sexual or labour exploitation. Trafickers use deception, fraud, force, abuse of vulnerability against smuggled migrants.
2021 Trafficking in Persons Report: Spain - U.S. Department of State
The rising numbers of newly arrived irregular migrants, including 23,000 to the Canary Islands in 2020, are vulnerable to trafficking. Nigerian criminal networks recruit victims in migrant reception centers in Italy for forced prostitution in Spain.
More than 10,000 migrants died in 2024 trying to reach Spain by
Dec 27, 2024 · Nearly 10,000 migrants disappeared at sea in 2024 while trying to reach the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago located about 70 miles off of the closest location on the coast of the African ...
Migrant arrivals to Spain's Canaries jump by over 1,000% in January
Feb 1, 2024 · The number of migrants from West Africa who braved the sea in fragile boats to reach Spain's Canary Islands jumped more than 1,000% in January from a year ago, data released by the country's...
The resurgence of maritime irregular migration to the Canary Islands
Dec 14, 2022 · Over the last two years, the level of irregular migration from West and North Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands has surged. Between January 2020 and late October 2022, 60 427 migrants disembarked in the Canary Islands, compared to 9 520 between January 2009 and December 2019.
Boat Drivers and Smuggling Networks: New UNODC Research …
Aug 9, 2022 · Canary Islands (Spain), 9 August 2022 - In the final months of 2020, when the world was still reeling from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of smuggled people arrived on the Canary Islands of Spain, in numbers not seen on the islands for over a decade.