Global Snapshot

Key estimates with their reference years and original sources.

Reports, Frameworks & Briefings

Current reports, policy frameworks, and monitoring updates.

U.S. State Department TIP Report (2025)

Annual country-by-country assessment of anti-trafficking efforts, tier rankings, and current policy priorities.

2025 Report Site

ILO-UNICEF Child Labour Update (2025)

Released in June 2025, this latest global update reports 138 million children in child labour, including 54 million in hazardous work.

2025 ILO Update

Walk Free Government Response Research (2026)

Launched in January 2026 to inform the 2027 Global Slavery Index across 184 countries, using NGO and survivor feedback on government responses.

2026 Research Brief

Walk Free Conflict Risk Update (2026)

April 2026 briefing on conflict, displacement and exploitation risks.

2026 Risk Update

Free the Slaves Annual Impact Report (2025)

Published in April 2026. Reports 80 people moved to safety and freedom, 79 survivors trained, and more than 600,000 people reached digitally in 2025.

2025 Report PDF

Anti-Slavery International Annual Accounts (2025)

Annual report covering work through March 2025 on supply-chain forced labour, migration, climate-linked risk, and anti-trafficking advocacy.

2025 Annual Report

Marrakech Global Framework (2026)

Adopted on 13 February 2026, this global framework sets priorities for child labour prevention, enforcement, social protection, education, and accountability.

2026 Framework

Current Data Hubs & Trackers

Live portals, observatories, case law databases, and current tracking pages.

CTDC Global Synthetic Dataset · 2026 release

2026 synthetic dataset based on assistance and hotline records for over 230,000 identified people across 199 countries and territories (2002–2024).

Explore Dataset

UNODC Data Portal

UNODC's data portal is an official entry point for administrative trafficking datasets, country comparisons, and related crime indicators.

Open Data Portal

ILO Forced Labour Observatory

ILO's live database tracks country legal frameworks, enforcement measures, prevention, protection, remedies, and cooperation on forced labour and trafficking.

Visit Observatory

SHERLOC Trafficking Case Law Database

UNODC's SHERLOC portal lets users browse trafficking in persons case law by country and keyword, making global prosecution practice easier to compare.

Browse Case Law

UNVTF Project Map

Current UN trust fund page for funded survivor-support projects, grant updates, geographic coverage, and NGO-led anti-trafficking initiatives.

Explore UNVTF

Polaris Impact Through 2025

Polaris programme and hotline figures by reporting period: contacts, situations and people served.

View Impact Page

Global evidence to read together

Pair population estimates with detected-case data and emerging policy evidence.

Detected cases · 2024 report

UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2024

Core global report and regional profiles. Main victim profiles use 2022 data; detection depends on reporting and institutional capacity.

2026 update · Forced criminality

UNODC–EU warning on scam-centre trafficking

30 July 2026: international cooperation and protection needs for people forced to commit online fraud.

2025 revision · Identification

ILO indicators of forced labour

Revised operational guidance for assessing potential forced labour, including indicators of coercion and control.