The victims of trafficking in persons are dominated by women, although it does not rule out the possibility that men can also be the victims. Women are considered as commodities that can provide benefits because
The crime – which the United Nationsrecognizes every yearon July 30 as World Day Against Trafficking in Persons to raise awareness for victims – has two forms, according to the U.S. government: forced labor and sex trafficking. More broadly, it is defined as a crime where “traffickers ex...
The crime of trafficking in persons involves women disproportionately, both as victims and as offenders. Women comprise a majority of the detected victims of this crime, and women are also prosecuted and convicted of trafficking in persons in a far larger proportion than for nearly any other crime...
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slavery. The United Nations defines human trafficking as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by improper means (such as force, abduction, fraud, or coercion) for an improper purpose including forced labor or sexual exploitation". In order to correctly ...
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Indeed, at a recent event to mark the end of Maria Grazia Giammarinaro’s term as UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, Lou de Baca, head of the US State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons during the Obama Administration admitted that the US’s att...
as “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act.” For people under the age of 18, any commercial sexual activity is considered trafficking, even if there is no force, fraud, or coercion. ...
Human trafficking, which is no respecter of national frontiers, is considered as a serious crime that has disturbed many countries for several centuries. In terms of definition of human trafficking, it should accord with following three constitutive elements. The first is that it is intended for ...
the internationally-agreed definition of trafficking, contained in the 2000 UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (also known as the Palermo Protocol), provided—for the first time at inter- national level—a broad notion of ...