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Human trafficking is the illegal trade in human
beings for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation or forced labor: a
modern-day...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking
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Human Trafficking
Article 3, paragraph (a) of the Protocol to Prevent,
Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons defines Trafficking in Persons as
the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring 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 labour or services,
slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs
Human Trafficking is a crime against humanity. It involves
an act of recruiting, transporting, transfering, harbouring or receiving a
person through a use of force, coercion or other means, for the purpose of
exploiting them. Every year, thousands of men, women and children fall into the
hands of traffickers, in their own countries and abroad. Every country in the
world is affected by trafficking, whether as a country of origin, transit or
destination for victims. UNODC, as guardian of the United Nations Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) and the Protocols thereto,
assists States in their efforts to implement the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish
Trafficking in Persons (Trafficking in Persons Protocol)./ http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-human-trafficking.html/
UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME
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Human trafficking -- the sale, transport and
profit from human beings who are forced to work for others -- is the modern
equivalent of slavery. Against their will, millions of people around the world
are forced to work for the profit of others, for example by begging,
prostitution, involuntary servitude, working in sweatshops - even becoming
child soldiers./ http://www.urbanministry.org/wiki/human-trafficking-definition-prevalence-and-causes
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the business of helping people to enter a
country illegally and forcing them to work there for very little money because
they have no rights / http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/human-trafficking
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Human trafficking is the fuel that keeps
prostitution on the road as evidenced by the fact that 97% of the 1,000 women
involved in indoor prostitution are migrants and that 90% of potential human
trafficking victims are being investigated on the basis of sexual exploitation,
some involving minors./ http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Human+Trafficking
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Vancouver lawyer Christine Duhaime writes, in
Anti-Money Laundering Law in Canada: http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary/H/HumanTrafficking.aspx
"Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery,
defined as any act that involves the transport, harbouring, or sale of persons
through coercion, force, kidnapping, deception or fraud, for the purposes of
placing them in a situation of forced prostitution, domestic servitude, debt
bondage or other slavery-like practice. Human trafficking can be local,
national or international – a person may be trafficked from a small town to a
large city within the same country, or trafficked to another country.
"All human trafficking activities
involve money laundering. The proceeds collected from the criminal activity are
transformed by criminals into apparently legitimate money or other assets.
Traffickers tend to use the proceeds of their criminal activities to invest in
cash intensive businesses, such as nightclubs or strip bars, and later, in real
estate. To avoid detection, they tend to wire funds through money services
businesses and send money across the border using international courier
services....
"[H]uman trafficking is the second
largest illicit business in the world, after drug trafficking, generating as
much as US$40 million annually in proceeds of crime that are laundered through
the legitimate financial system. Until recently, money laundering activities
have not been used frequently enough to flush out human trafficking by law
enforcement agencies but that is slowly changing as reliable money laundering
and human trafficking typologies are developed."
