percent of transnational victims are women and girls and up to 50 percent are minors. According to the UNICEF Executive Director, globally, an estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked each year, within countries as well as across borders.2) A report released by the ILO in 2005 places the global minimum estimate number of persons in forced labour as a result of trafficking at 2,450,000. Trafficking represents a significant proportion of forced labour cases, namely about 20 per cent of all forced labour and about one quarter of forced labour cases exacted by private agents.3) It is often assumed that people are mainly trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. However, ILO estimates indicate that 32 per cent of all victims were trafficked into labour exploitation, while 43 per cent were trafficked for sexual exploitation and 25 per cent for a mixture of both.4) A breakdown of regional statistics by ILO shows that Asia and the Pacific have the highest number of people in forced labour as a result of trafficking. This is put at 1,360,000 out of the global number of 2,450,000,5) which constitute more than half the world statistics. Of course this calls for action particularly from government and other stakeholders such as the National Human Rights Institutions in affected region for which South Korea is part of. On migration, the facts and figures indicate that: ① There are more than 200 million estimated international migrants in the world today.6) ② Migrants comprise 3.0 per cent of the global population.7) ③ The number of the migrants worldwide would constitute the fifth most populous in the world.8) ④ Women account for estimated at 51.6 per cent of all migrants in 2010, outnumbering their male counterparts.9) ⑤ In 2007, remittance flows are estimated at USD 337 billion worldwide, USD 251 billion of which went to developing countries.10) ⑥ There are roughly 20 to 30 million unauthorized migrants worldwide, comprising around 10 to 15 per cent of the world's immigrant stock.11) 2) 3) 4) 5) Similar figures are given by the ILO Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings, 2008 Ibid. See also ILO, A Global Alliance Against Forced Labour, 2005, p. 14. Ibid. Ibid. Other regional statistics are: Industrial Countries‐ 270,000; Latin America and the Caribbean‐ 250,000; Middle East and North Africa 230,000; Transition Countries‐ 200,000 and Sub‐ Saharan Africa‐ 130,000. 6) World Migration 2008: Managing Labour Mobility in the Evolving Global Economy 7) United Nations' Trends in Total Migrant Stock: The 2005 Revision, http://esa.un.org/ migration 8) See ILO, International labour migration. A rights‐based approach Geneva, International Labour Office, 2010 ; also World Bank's Migration and Development Brief 5 (July 10, 2008), Revisions to Remittance Trends 2007, http://go.worldbank.org/NN93K4Q420 9) United Nations' Trends in Total Migrant Stock: The 2005 Revision, http://esa.un.org/ migration 10) World Bank's Migration and Development Brief 5 (July 10, 2008), Revisions to Remittance Trends 2007, http://go.worldbank.org/NN93K4Q420 11) United Nations' Trends in Total Migrant Stock: The 2005 Revision, http://esa.un.org/ migration The Status of Human Trafficking of Migrant Women Around the World and the Role of the International Community ❙ 5