Recife, 12/4/2002 (Agência Brasil - ABr) - Next week an international conference on human being traffic will take place in Recife, with representatives from Brazil, Spain, the United States, France and England. The secretary of Human Rights, Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, will open the conference.

According to Anália Ribeiro, who coordinates Brazil's human being traffic prevention and combat program, one of the country's main difficulties in this area is a lack of specific legislation.

According to the UN, human being traffic revenue worldwide is US$9 billion annually. Some 700,000 people are annually traded as goods in one way or another, most of them women. (AB)