Ministers Henriksson and Ohisalo: Nordic cooperation must be developed to combat human trafficking
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Trafficking in human beings is a global phenomenon, and even individual human trafficking offences often extend to more than one state. The ministers speaking at an anti-trafficking seminar in Helsinki on Thursday consider cross-border measures against human trafficking to be of utmost importance.
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