What is Human Trafficking?

 What is Human Trafficking?

 

 

The United Nations office on Drugs and Crime defines Human Trafficking in their Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, as the trafficking in persons as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation, Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.

 

 

Three Elements of Human Trafficking



 

1. The Act: Recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons.
2. The Means: Threat or use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or vulnerability, or giving payments or benefits to a person in control of the victim.
3. The Purpose: Exploitation, which includes exploiting the prostitution of others, sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery or similar practices and the removal of organs.

 

 

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