Portugal “origin and destination for human trafficking”

The grim reality that Portugal is a country of “transition, origin and destination for human trafficking” was affirmed this week in a radio interview with the president of the commission for the support of victims of people trafficking. Sister Júlia Barroso told Rádio Renascença that when the commission began “people said there was no trafficking here, that this was just a place of transition”. Data now shows this to be far from the truth.