Human Trafficking What is Human Trafficking It involves

Human Trafficking

What is Human Trafficking? § It involves controlling a person through force, fraud, or coercion to exploit the victim forced labor, sexual exploitation, or both. §Men are-hard labor jobs §children - into labor positions in textile, agriculture and fishing industries. §Women and girls -into the commercial sex industry

Forms of human trafficking § Forced labor §sex trafficking §Domestic Servitude §Organ Harvesting

What is forced labor? § Forced labor is any work or services which people are forced to do against their will under the threat of some form punishment.

§ Forced labor affects millions of men, women and children around the world and is most frequently found in labor intensive and/or under-regulated industries, such as: • Agriculture and fishing • Domestic work • Construction, mining, quarrying and brick kilns • Manufacturing, processing and packaging • Prostitution and sexual exploitation • Market trading and illegal activities

How big is the problem? §ILO estimates that there at least 20. 9 million people in forced labor worldwide. § 18. 7 million -in forced labor in the private economy, exploited by individuals or enterprises. Out of these, 4. 5 million - in forced sexual exploitation, and 14. 2 million in forced labor exploitation

How big is the problem? . . . §Women and girls of forced labour victims- 11. 4 million (55%), as compared to 9. 5 million (45%) men and boys. § 74% (15. 4 million) of victims fall in the age group of 18 years and above, whereas children are 26% of the total (or 5. 5 million child victims). § 2. 2 million -state-imposed forms of forced labour, for example in prisons under conditions which violate ILO standards, or in work imposed by the state military or by rebel armed forces.

Where is it found? §global problem • Asia and Pacific: 11. 7 million (56%) • Africa: 3. 7 million (18%) • Latin America and the Caribbean: 1. 8 million (9%) • The Developed Economies : 1. 5 million (7%) • Central, Southeast and Eastern Europe (non EU) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CSEE): 1. 6 million (7%) • Middle East: 600, 000 (3%)

Sex trafficking “Sex Trafficking is the recruitment, transportation (within national or across international borders), transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation. Sexual trafficking is accomplished by means of fraud, deception, threat of or use of force, abuse of a position of vulnerability, and other forms of coercion. ” (defined by UN)

Who are the victims? §women § girls §boys

Common Patterns for luring victims into situations of sex trafficking includes: §A promise of a good job §A false marriage proposal §Being sold into the sex trade §Being kidnapped by traffickers

Who are the traffickers? §members of highly sophisticated networks of organized crime. - individual pimps or brothel owners - family members and friends of the trafficking victim desperate for money - former victims of trafficking who are later used to traffic other women and children

Impact of sex trafficking §Trafficking has a harrowing effect on the mental, emotional and physical well being of the women and girls extreme emotional stress, including shame, grief, fear, distrust and suicidal thoughts. §post-traumatic stress disorder, and with that, acute anxiety, depression and insomnia §promotes societal breakdown by removing women and girls from their families and communities

Domestic servitude §involves the victim being forced to work in private households §Victims will lead very isolated lives and have little or no unsupervised freedom.

Organ Harvesting • internal organs for transplant • The illegal trade is dominated by kidneys

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