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Please find below the state­ment of the Order of Malta :

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UNODC on human trafficking and migrant smuggling

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HTMSSHuman traf­fick­ing is the acqui­si­tion of peo­ple by improp­er means such as force, fraud or decep­tion, with the aim of exploit­ing them.

Smug­gling of migrants involves the pro­cure­ment for finan­cial or oth­er mate­r­i­al ben­e­fit of ille­gal entry of a per­son into a State of which that per­son is not a nation­al or resident.

Vir­tu­al­ly every coun­try in the world is affect­ed by these crimes. The chal­lenge for all coun­tries, rich and poor, is to tar­get the crim­i­nals who exploit des­per­ate peo­ple and to pro­tect and assist vic­tims of traf­fick­ing and smug­gled migrants, many of whom endure unimag­in­able hard­ships in their bid for a bet­ter life.

As the only Unit­ed Nations enti­ty focus­ing on the crim­i­nal jus­tice ele­ment of these crimes, the work that UNODC does to com­bat human traf­fick­ing and the smug­gling of migrants is under­pinned by the Unit­ed Nations Con­ven­tion on Transna­tion­al Orga­nized Crime and its pro­to­cols on traf­fick­ing in per­sons and migrant smuggling.