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Humanitarian emergency for trafficking and sexual exploitation of migrant women and girls at the border of Venezuela

A report by Corporación Mujer Denuncia y Muévete documents 630 cases of human trafficking and sexual exploitation of migrant women and girls along the Colombia-Venezuela border between 2018 and 2026, with 280 women receiving accompaniment.

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linked by topic terms: migrant, migrantes

What would settle it: Consistent border/consular figures across two independent monitors over a month.

Evidence state: emergingas of Sep 12, 2026changed from insufficient → emergingnot yet linked to a tracked event object in our corpus — no source count yet

630 cases of trafficking and sexual exploitation documented between 2018 and 2026 by Corporación Mujer Denuncia y Muévete.

280 women received accompaniment; 6% suffered forced maternity due to unprotected sex imposed by exploiters.

Armed groups control exploitation: 35% ELN, 30% FARC dissidents, 20% criminal bands, 15% prostitution networks.

Exploitation circuits concentrated in Cúcuta, Villa del Rosario, Tibú, and Ocaña in Norte de Santander.

AI-assisted synthesis anchored to a real VeraVadis-analyzed source. Cleared by VeraVadis's automated editorial gates on 2026-08-23 — not reviewed by a human editor. Archive piece: published under our earlier method. It does not carry the per-claim evidence chain — who reported it first and who is echoing whom — that our current pieces carry. The source link and the date are the original ones.