Conflict-driven human trafficking, internally displaced persons, and legal responses in Ethiopia: the northern conflict in focus

Getye Abneh Tadesse and Tesfaye Tafesse

Small Wars and Insurgencies, 2025, vol. 36, issue 6, 1135-1163

Abstract: This study aims to investigate conflict-driven human trafficking, focusing on the conflict between the federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front in Ethiopia. Using human security theory, the study used a case study design to examine how the conflict increased internally displaced persons (IDPs) vulnerabilities to trafficking and exploitation. Interviewing 42 participants, including IDPs, government officials, NGO representatives, and illicit brokers, the study reveals that IDPs experienced sexual and labor exploitations, rape, and the recruitment of child soldiers. The government should effectively combat conflict-driven human trafficking by safeguarding IDPs, and future research is needed to explore this issue further.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2025.2510308

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