Human trafficking is at a record high in the UK. Insiders say as many as 100,000 people are affected. Many of them come from Romania, where poverty, unemployment, and woeful social support makes vulnerable individuals - especially women and children - easy targets for traffickers.

The US government says Romania doesn’t even meet the “minimum standards” for the elimination of trafficking.

So why is Romania still such fertile ground for modern slavery?

BeyondBorders talks to survivors, their saviours, and confronts the shame of their abusers - who are somehow still able to orchestrate trafficking from INSIDE prison.

Hosts: David Foster & Adam Charlton

Producer: Vivienne Dacre

Executive Producer: Alice Tegg

Podcast Editor: Emine Gezici Ustundag

Programmes Manager: Mark Klusener

TRT World Director: Mevlut Selman Tecim

TRT International Broadcast Head: Omer Faruk Tanriverdi

Watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIJSWfHVXaE&t=781s

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