THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION 23^rd March, 2016

One in four internally displaced persons surveyed in Kenya has been a victim or witness of human trafficking, the majority lured to the Middle East but then forced to do menial work or sexually exploited, an anti-trafficking charity said on Tuesday. “As traffickers tend to look for people who are desperate and with an uncertain future, they often target IDP communities,” HAART, a Kenyan charity that gives trafficking victims psychological and economic support, said in a study. Traffickers posed as job agents in 88 per cent of cases, researchers found, and two-thirds of their victims were women.