Diane Schmitt

Diane Schmitt

@dianeeu.bsky.social

🇪🇺EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator

40 Followers 13 Following 18 Posts Joined Jan 2025
1 week ago

Thanks to Europol, Spain and Ukraine, a network exploiting Ukrainian woman has been disrupted.

This shows that one has to continue to be vigilant and take the right measures to prevent human trafficking and protect those fleeing the military aggression against Ukraine.

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2 weeks ago
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Invisible no more: EU launches campaign against human trafficking The European Commission has launched an EU-wide awareness raising campaign to tackle human trafficking. The campaign aims to shed light on this often invisible crime and to enable citizens and victims...

You want to know more about

- the awareness raising campaign ´End Human Trafficking. Break the Invisible Chain’ launched by the European Commission?

- how to recognise signs of human trafficking?

- where to report or get help?

Check out here⤵️

home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/news/invisib...

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2 weeks ago
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Do you know that around 10.000 people fall victim to human trafficking in the EU every year?

Many more remain undetected.

You can help by
- raising awareness
- recognising the signs
- call national helplines

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2 months ago
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Commission launches Call for Evidence on New EU Strategy on combatting trafficking in human beings Commission published a Call for Evidence for the new EU strategy on combatting trafficking in human beings scheduled for 2026. It aims to strengthen the fight against trafficking in human beings withi...

A New Year - new opportunities to combat trafficking in human beings
with 🇪🇺 EU support

2026
👉new Strategy & 6th Progress Report
👉enforcement of new Anti-Trafficking legislation
👉operational actions with EU agencies
And much more…

home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/news/commiss...

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2 months ago
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Action supported by Europol has disrupted a criminal network engaged in a multitude of criminal activities and present in dozens of countries.

Their activities include cyber-enabled fraud, drug trafficking, and human trafficking.

Read more in our press release: https://ow.ly/JMxf50XTSvj

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3 months ago
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Commission launches Call for Evidence on New EU Strategy on combatting trafficking in human beings Commission published a Call for Evidence for the new EU strategy on combatting trafficking in human beings scheduled for 2026. It aims to strengthen the fight against trafficking in human beings withi...

You want to ‘Have Your Say’ on the new EU Strategy on Combatting HumanTrafficking

Check below👇

Deadline: 26 January 2026

Looking forward to your contributions

#EUvsHumanTrafficking

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4 months ago
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404 potential victims and 93 perpetrators of labour exploitation identified during action in 32 countries across Europe.

Read more in our press release: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/54-individuals-arrested-in-action-against-labour-exploitation

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4 months ago
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The EU Anti-Trafficking Day: Key findings from 10 years of Human Trafficking Data 18 October marks the EU Anti-Trafficking Day, dedicated to raise awareness of trafficking in human beings and the exploitation of women, men and children. Data collection helps to support legislation ...

Ahead of 18 October
EU Anti-Trafficking Day

👉 Key findings from 10 years of Human Trafficking data 👇

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5 months ago
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Over 30 potential victims identified in action against human trafficking enabled online – 73 experts from 26 countries participated in the operation | Europol From 15 to 19 September 2025, Europol supported the fourth edition of the EMPACT Trafficking in Human Beings (THB) Hackathon, an action week against human trafficking enabled online. It was led by Dut...

Over 30 potential victims were identified in an international operation against human trafficking enabled online. Europol supported 73 specialists from 26 countries worldwide in the action.
#EUvsHumanTrafficking

Read more here ➡️ europol.europa.eu/media-press/...

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6 months ago
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🚨 Dozens of women rescued from sex trafficking in Austria and five traffickers arrested in Colombia with support of Europol

Read more in our press release ⤵️

www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/...

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6 months ago

Congratulations to @Europol, Brazil 🇧🇷 & Irlande 🇮🇪 for dismantling a criminal network involved in human trafficking and for saving victims of sexual exploitation

Cooperation with South America is key as the number of victims from the region is increasing in the EU 🇪🇺

More below 👇

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7 months ago
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UNODC and the EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator urge global action to dismantle organized criminal networks behind human trafficking UNODC and the EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator urge global action to dismantle organized criminal networks behind human trafficking

On Workd Day Against Trafficking in Persons

👉read my joint statement with UNODC

#EndHumanTrafficking

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7 months ago
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♟️ Human trafficking is organised crime.

We will continue to fight back with intelligence, coordination & cross-border action.

💙 On this #WorldDayAgainstHumanTrafficking, we stand with UNODC and law enforcement agencies to #EndHumanTrafficking

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8 months ago
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Together against human trafficking

#Frontex teamed-up with @europol.europa.eu @interpol.int and 43 countries worldwide saving 1,200 victims of human trafficking.

🔗LEARN MORE: www.frontex.europa.eu/media-centre...

We stand united in protecting the most vulnerable! 💙
#StrongerTogether #EMPACT

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8 months ago

Impressive operation with clear results, thanks to Europol, Frontex, Interpol, Austria, Romania and many other participants, who every day play a key role in combatting trafficking in human beings.
⬇️⬇️⬇️

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9 months ago
SkyTeam

First global airline alliance launching a coordinated initiative to prevent and combat Trafficking in Human Beings
👍Bravo

www.skyteam.com/en/about/pre...

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9 months ago
A visual with a blue top half and a yellow bottom half mimicking Ukraine's flag colour. In the blue section, the word "protect" is written in large white letters, with its phonetic transcription "/prəˈtɛkt/." Below, in smaller white letters. In the yellow section, the word "verb" is written in blue, followed by its definition: "keep safe from harm or injury." in blue text. In the bottom right corner, there is a logo of the European Commission.

Safety and stability remain out of reach for many Ukrainians.

We're proposing to extend temporary protection for Ukrainians fleeing war in the EU until March 2027.

This is about more than protection.

It's about paving a fair, stable and predictable path forward ↓
europa.eu/!fQPMHm

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10 months ago
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🙏 to Frontex for organising an international conference on human trafficking

👉Border and Coast Guards play a crucial role in detecting potential victims & perpetrators

👉 Together with other partners, we discussed how to improve the detection and protection of children

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11 months ago
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10 793 registered victims of human trafficking in 2023 In 2023, the number of registered victims of trafficking in human beings in the EU was 10 793. There were 8 471 suspected traffickers and 2 309 convicted traffickers. Nearly two-thirds (63%) of the r...

2023 data on trafficking in human beings in the EU 🇪🇺 is out⬇️

▶️10 793 victims ↗️6.9% ▶️64% non EU citizens
▶️63% women & girls
▶️43% sexual, 36% labour, 20% other exploitation
▶️more suspects and convictions

⬇️read more⬇️

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11 months ago
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It was an honour to participate in the Brdo process ministerial meeting and discuss with the Western Balkan countries trends, challenges and reinforced cooperation in combatting trafficking in human beings and protecting victims.

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11 months ago
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Security is a shared responsibility for all European nations.

At the #BrdoProcess with @magnusbrunner.bsky.social & partners from Western Balkans to strengthen cooperation against threats like terrorism & human trafficking.

Candidate countries have to be part of strong European security structures

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11 months ago
Diane Schmitt, EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator, Elisabeth Margue, Ministre de la Justice

Elisabeth Margue a reçu @dianeeu.bsky.social, accompagnée d’ @annecalteux.bsky.social, pour échanger sur le 5e rapport sur les progrès réalisés au sein de l’Union européenne dans la lutte contre la traite des êtres humains. Nos efforts se poursuivent pour mieux identifier et aider les victimes.

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1 year ago

Another successful 🇪🇺 operational action targeting human trafficking online👇
👉21 suspects
👉41 victims detected
👇👇👇

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1 year ago
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Trafficking in human Beings: a Common Plan to address the risks for people fleeing the war in Ukraine Today, the Solidarity Platform has committed to follow-up and implement a Common Anti-Trafficking Plan to address the risks of trafficking in human beings and support potential victims among those fle...

Three years ago, 🇪🇺 and 🇺🇦 joined forces to prevent #HumanTrafficking of those fleeing the aggression against Ukraine

Today, we continue implementing the 🇪🇺EU Common Anti-Trafficking Plan⬇️ to protect the victims and stop the criminals

#StandWithUkraine
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1 year ago
https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/news/new-call-expression-interest-eu-civil-society-platform-against-trafficking-human-beings-2025-02-05_en

As chair of the EU Civil Society Platform against #HumanTrafficking
I am pleased to announce a new Call for expression of interest for membership

Interested?👇More here👇

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1 year ago
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30 arrested in crackdown on Chinese human trafficking ring in Spain and Croatia | Europol 30 arrested in crackdown on Chinese human trafficking ring in Spain and Croatia

EU 🇪🇺 operational law enforcement cooperation allowed to dismantled a 🇨🇳 criminal HumanTrafficking network with the support of Europol 👇

www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/...

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1 year ago
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🚨Violent human traffickers stopped in Germany and Hungary: 7 arrested and 6 victims identified.

The suspects recruited the victims, young women from Hungary, via the so-called lover boy method.

Read the full story in our press release ⤵️

www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/...

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1 year ago
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New Progress report on combatting Trafficking in Human Beings The European Commission published its fifth report on the progress made in the EU in combatting Trafficking in Human Beings. The report outlines the main anti-trafficking actions from 2021 to 2024 and...

The new Report on combatting #HumanTrafficking in the European Union 🇪🇺 is out

with
☑️Trends
☑️Challenges
☑️Actions at EU and national level

#EUvsHumanTrafficking

⬇️⬇️⬇️

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