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As ear­ly as 2017, the Sov­er­eign Mil­i­tary Order of Mal­ta appoint­ed a spe­cial ambas­sador to mon­i­tor and com­bat human traf­fick­ing. H.E. Ambas­sador Prof. Michel Veuthev attends the three-year­ly meet­ings of the Human Rights Coun­cil in Gene­va, where he presents papers and par­tic­i­pates in par­al­lel events. In addi­tion, he has orga­nized 41 webi­na­rs on human traf­fick­ing in col­lab­o­ra­tion with inter­na­tion­al experts and sur­vivors. These webi­na­rs are sub­ti­tled in sev­en lan­guages (Chi­nese, Eng­lish, French, Ger­man, Ital­ian, Russ­ian and Span­ish). Fur­ther­more, he is con­tin­u­ous­ly work­ing on the devel­op­ment of an inter­na­tion­al net­work of prac­ti­tion­ers, experts and researchers, among oth­er things to offer free online cours­es for helpers.

The ambas­sador of the Order of Mal­ta to the Repub­lic of Aus­tria, H.E. Ambas­sador DI Sebas­t­ian Prinz von Schoe­naich-Car­o­lath, is also par­tic­u­lar­ly com­mit­ted to the fight against human traf­fick­ing. In Aus­tria, which is also affect­ed by human traf­fick­ing due to its geo­graph­i­cal posi­tion and his­to­ry, Ambas­sador Schoe­naich-Car­o­lath has suc­ceed­ed in set­ting up a mon­i­tor­ing cen­ter togeth­er with the Arch­dio­cese of Salzburg in order to observe the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion and devel­op­ments in the field of human traf­fick­ing in Aus­tria and to be able to take appro­pri­ate ini­tia­tives. In the course of the year, fur­ther details on the sub­ject will be published.

This glob­al­ly rel­e­vant crime is respon­si­ble for the incon­ceiv­able suf­fer­ing of the abduct­ed and has already reached a vol­ume of well over US$ 15 mil­lion world­wide. At con­fer­ences and con­ven­tions, the ambas­sadors of the Sov­er­eign Order of Mal­ta con­tin­u­ous­ly point out the dev­as­tat­ing effects of glob­al human traf­fick­ing and empha­size the urgent need for inter­na­tion­al coop­er­a­tion to com­bat this crime.