Amping up efforts across Member States to combat trafficking in human beings included a high-level international conference in May in Dubrovnik, Croatia, with the focus on combating demand in South-eastern Europe, as well as the Medusa 2022 exercise on combating trafficking in Human Beings organized by the Deputy Minister of Migration and Asylum in Greece, and the ‘Do not trust implicitly. Do not become a victim of human trafficking’ information campaign in Poland.

In Hungary, the Trafficking in Human Beings Unit of the National Bureau of Investigation participated in an online joint action day ‘Hackathon’ to detect criminal networks attempting to recruit Ukrainian refugees for sexual and labour exploitation via websites, social media platforms and the DarkWeb.