You already know that numbers are manipulated and often made up or badly sourced to suit particular purposes. This series of case studies won’t necessarily add much to that understanding, though there’s some stuff I found interesting, like how Colombia and Japan reacted to being put on US watch lists for being source and recipient countries for human trafficking, respectively, and in particular how Colombia resisted/reframed the sex trafficking issue as part of general issues surrounding labor migration. There’s also some detail on best practices for collecting mortality information in conflicts/genocides. Overall, a book for specialists. ( )