Human trafficking

Human trafficking: Poor women and girls targeted in Albania

The trafficking of people into the UK is on the rise. The latest figures for 2015 suggest that 3,266 people were potential victims of trafficking, a 40% increase on the previous year. The largest number - 600 - came from Albania. The BBC's Reeta Chakrabarti has been speaking to victims of trafficking in both the UK and Albania.

'I was forced to sleep with several men'

In a women's refuge in southern Albania, the victims of trafficking and violence are mere schoolgirls, 10 or 12 of them eyeing us shyly and looking impossibly young.

They all have tales of brutality and exploitation. Some of these children already have little children of their own, the products of the rapes they were subjected to.