What Is Human Trafficking?
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Understanding human trafficking
Buying and selling of human beings for the
purpose of exploitation is human trafficking, also known as slavery. Human trafficking is not only sex work, but it refers to exploitation of any kind - for cheap labor, for organ
trade, and for sex.
Human Trafficking according to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (most comprehensive definition on human trafficking).
Human Trafficking according to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (most comprehensive definition on human trafficking).
Kinds of human trafficking:
1. sexual exploitation in the form of
prostitution, forced marriage, or child marriage;
2. labour exploitation in the form of
forced labour, bonded labour, domestic servitude, or begging;
3. exploitation for medical purposes like
organ transplantation or commercial surrogacy;
4. sports sex tourism;
5. and military use of children, popularly
known as child soldiers.
Myths related to human trafficking
1. Human trafficking is only prostitution.
WRONG. It also includes child labor, forced marriage, organ transplantation,
sex tourism, bonded labor, child soldiers, etc.
2. Human trafficking affects only poor people.
WRONG. It perpetuates all economics stratas and all countries.
3. Only the social workers and the Government can do
something about it. WRONG. We all can.
4. Victims and survivors do not deserve to be
respected. WRONG. They deserve to be respected.
We perpetuate demand.
5. Human trafficking should involve movement
of people from one place to another. WRONG. Trafficking is also employing a
child at your house or exploiting a domestic worker.
6. Victims of trafficking are women and girls only. WRONG. Anybody can be a victim of human trafficking - men, women, girls, boys, anyone.
Human trafficking is a transnational organised crime
Human trafficking is a transnational organised crime
Traffickers have a strongly knit network
that transpires national boundaries. Irrespective of the distance from
the source to the destination area, victims are exploited over and
over; by people who lure them, people who transport them, those who act as
intermediaries, and those who finally use them. Human Trafficking is a very meticulously
planned, organised, and a well-executed trade of human-beings.
According to the International Labour Organization, human trafficking generates around 150$ billion in illegal
profits per year. Victims of slavery are
as young as 5 years old. Many experts believe that this is, however, only the
tip of the iceberg.
Human Trafficking and Development
Human trafficking has visible linkages to
critical development issues like poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, gender
bias, and lack of awareness, among many others. Therefore, it cannot be
analysed and approached in isolation. It has to be seen in a spectrum with
other development issues.
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