What is Human Trafficking?

Human Trafficking refers to the recruitment, obtaining, hiring, providing, transportation, maintaining, harboring or receipt of persons for the purpose of exploitation within or outside the country, with or without the victim's consent or knowledge.

The purpose of exploitation includes, at a minimum, the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery, servitude or the removal or sale of organs.

Human trafficking is committed by means of threat, Use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or position, or by taking advantage of the vulnerability of the person, or by giving or receiving payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person.

If the victim is a child, the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, adaption, or receipt of the victim for the purpose of exploitation hall be considered human trafficking even if it does not involve any of these means. Human trafficking is also committed even without these means if the adoption of the child is induced by any form of consideration for exploitative purposes.

Blogged by: Danica Vullag