NGO’s follow the UN Law which defines human trafficking similar the US state department (Florida NOW Trafficking, 2016).
Human Smuggling is also defined similar to that the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime which states, “ the procurement, in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or other material benefit, of the illegal entry of a person into a State of which the person is not a national or a permanent resident”(UNCTOC).
Differences between the 2:
Illegal smuggling requires illegal crossing of borders of another country. Where human trafficking is a crime against a person and involves commercial sex acts or labor services induced by force ad fraud. Certain differences between human trafficking and human smuggling is consent exploitation and transnationality. In regards to consent smugglers agree to move people from one country to another illegally for a fee. Majority of trafficked victims, have no say in what they do or where they are taken. They are misled or forced to have been deceived into agreeing by false promises, only to then face exploitation. And of course there is the notion of smuggling which happens to have and end destination whereas trafficking doesn’t. On the opposite side, traffickers exploit their victim throughout the entire journey and at each stop domestically and/or internationally. …show more content…
There is and continues to strike up response to improve political efforts to end the problem. Illegal entry and smuggling of individuals but there is the issue that those who are trafficked or smuggled defend their choice to work in this servitude or smuggled across borders. The issue is goes back to the asymmetric theory introduced by Niam, the issue where criminal organizations are steps ahead of the government (Niam). These smuggling rings have advantages over governments since there isn’t an international collective monitoring agency within certain areas to monitor and prohibit these illegal activities and prosecute these offenders. These illegal organization relying of the struggles of these weak individuals to make a profit, they use the gaps in the system and the fragmented legal systems of a society to their advantage. It’s also an advantage for these illegal organizations to supply a basic service of cheap labor for companies or organizations in other countries who seek these low paid individuals to employ. The dependence these migrants/trafficked victims along with ignorance is what fuels this operations. The issue of border controlling has risen and along with it the human rights f these illegal individuals entering to country. The treatment and the initial actions taken to stop these individual from coming in have been