Immoral Trafficking
MENACE OF IMMORAL TRAFFICKING
The crime of human trafficking affects every country in the world. The largest numbers of victims come from Asia. It is associated with transnational criminal organizations, small criminal networks and local gangs, violations of labour and immigration codes, and government corruption. Among all the professions in the world of human beings, prostitution and trafficking for the purpose of prostitution is the oldest and universally rampant. For trafficking to take place, the victim need not be transported across international or other boundaries.
What is immoral trafficking?
The term trafficking is used to describe activities in which women and children are forced into exploitative situations. The UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, defines trafficking in persons as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of threat or the use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs”.
While current stereotypes often depict the victims of human trafficking as innocent young girls who are seduced or kidnapped from their home countries and forced into the sex industry, it is not just young girls who are trafficked. Men, women, and children of all ages can fall prey to traffickers for purposes of sex and/or labour.
Trafficking has also been defined as moving, selling or buying of women and children for prostitution within and outside a country for monetary or other considerations with or without the
The crime of human trafficking affects every country in the world. The largest numbers of victims come from Asia. It is associated with transnational criminal organizations, small criminal networks and local gangs, violations of labour and immigration codes, and government corruption. Among all the professions in the world of human beings, prostitution and trafficking for the purpose of prostitution is the oldest and universally rampant. For trafficking to take place, the victim need not be transported across international or other boundaries.
What is immoral trafficking?
The term trafficking is used to describe activities in which women and children are forced into exploitative situations. The UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, defines trafficking in persons as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of threat or the use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs”.
While current stereotypes often depict the victims of human trafficking as innocent young girls who are seduced or kidnapped from their home countries and forced into the sex industry, it is not just young girls who are trafficked. Men, women, and children of all ages can fall prey to traffickers for purposes of sex and/or labour.
Trafficking has also been defined as moving, selling or buying of women and children for prostitution within and outside a country for monetary or other considerations with or without the