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Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is a heinous crime that gravely violates human rights. It


afflicts persons from every part and corner of the globe where thousands of
people including men, women and children regardless origin are being
victimized and falls to the hands of traffickers. Human trafficking is done
with the collusion of small to large scale criminal groups or syndicates
forming organized groups bent on the exploitation of persons for profit.
Human Trafficking as is defined in Article 3 Paragraph (a) of the Protocol to
Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons as through recruitment,
transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by the use of
coercive means through force and intimidation, abduction, fraud and
deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability for the
purpose of exploitation.
Exploitation of persons includes trafficking persons for the purposes of
sexual exploitation/prostitution, for the use of persons with relations to
indiscriminate/inhumane working conditions such as forced labor and slavery
or practices similar to it and, trafficking of persons for the removal of their
organs to supply the underground organ trade.
There are Three Elements present in Human Trafficking, and these
constitutes The Act (What is done), The Means (How it is done), and The
Purpose (Why was it done). Human trafficking is done by recruitment,
transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by means of threat
or use of grave force, coercion, and abduction, fraudulence, abuse of power
in the part of the offender or exploitation of vulnerabilities of the victim. The
purpose of such is for the exploitation of the victims for the uses of
prostitution/sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery and similar practices,
and the removal of organs. (unodc.org, 2016).
The victims of Human Trafficking can be divided into three populations in
reference
to
Federal
Anti

Trafficking
laws
of
the
U.S
(traffickingresourcecenter.org, 2016) where the usual victims are:
1. Children under the age of 18 induced into commercial sex
2. Adults (age 18 or over) induced into commercial sex through force, fraud,
or coercion
3. Children and adults induced to perform labor or services through force,
fraud, or coercion

But in a global scale, victims of Human Trafficking ranges from adults and
minors may it be in urban, suburban or rural portions of a country, making it
hard to classify or discern a specific profile for trafficking victims. Also
victims of human trafficking have diverse socio economic and educational
backgrounds and may be either documented or undocumented. Most human
trafficking methods are curtailed in different ways, using effective means of
trafficking such as fraudulent recruitment where the victim is promised of a
good working opportunity overseas or through manipulation and abduction.
Certain vulnerabilities are also targeted by these organized crime groups
where most of the victims come from the third world countries, specifically
persons from the marginalized sector or the poorest of the poor of the
society, comprising majorly of young women and children who are either
forced into labor or prostitution and other inhumane activities at the mercy
of these traffickers and organized crime groups.

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