In southern Africa, human trafficking is commonly associated with irregular migration, prostitution or child labor. Internal trafficking of children in South Africa and external trafficking from Mozambique, Angola and the Great Lakes region to South Africa have been documented by the International ...
This chapter addresses human trafficking in South Africa, which is primarily regarded as a trafficking destination or receiving country even though to some extent it also serves as a source and transit route. Trafficking victims, from Mozambique especially, are transported across borders to South ...
The upsurge in human trafficking within South Africa's borders has garnered extensive public attention in recent years. Much of the attention has been centred on the absence of comprehensive legislation to adequately address and counter the increased trading of persons occurring within the country's ...
Human trafficking is a form of modern day slavery and is often collectively referred to as a human rights violation.However, human trafficking is more complex than this suggests as this article attempts to demonstrate. It begins bydescribing the landscape of international trends in human trafficking...
In 2013, the South African Government passed the Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Persons Act. A focus on human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation often results in human trafficking being conflated with sex work and as a consequence there is a failure to distinguish migran...
aving ratified the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, South Africa is obliged to adopt legislative measures that criminalise human trafficking and comply with other standards laid down in this international instrument. However, by mid-2011,...
Parents have always managed to set geographical boundaries - where their children could go and where they could not - that was back in the day. However, the amount of women and children who go missing in South Africa is cause for national concern. ...
Human Trafficking&Modern-day Slavery Around the world, millions of people are living in bondage. They labor in fields and factories under brutal employers who threaten them with violence if they try to escape. They work in homes for families that keep them virtually imprisoned. They are forced ...
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The Effects of Human Trafficking Introduction to Human Trafficking Human trafficking is a well-known crime and illegal trade which seriously violates human rights, it is the third-largest crime in the whole world. Every year there are thousands of people who fall victim to this crime either in ...