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The IOM recently helped free some 600 men from Thai fishing trawlers in the seas off Indonesia (Photo: Environmental Justice Foundation)

Crisis situations are laboratories for human trafficking

When disaster strikes, the humanitarian community rushes to respond.

We mobilize resources, activate response mechanisms, send doctors, search and rescue teams, logisticians, counsellors, engineers, equipment, tarpaulins, food, medicine and water. All the paraphernalia of an emergency response, swings into action, to conflict zones, natural calamities, or man-made disasters. \n \nWe know there will be acute needs. We know that there may be injuries, food shortages, water-borne diseases...

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

The IOM recently helped free some 600 men from Thai fishing trawlers in the seas off Indonesia (Photo: Environmental Justice Foundation)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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