Understanding Trafficking in Persons Chapter 1 Class Name

Understanding Trafficking in Persons Chapter 1 Class Name, Instructor Name

Understanding Trafficking in Persons What is Trafficking in Persons? Many names of human trafficking? § § § Is it “slavery”? Is it “modern slavery”? Is it “illegal migration”? Is it “smuggling”? Is it “under-age prostitution of foreigners”? Is it “sex-slavery”? Copyright © 2017 Suman Kakar. All rights reserved.

Understanding Trafficking in Persons is ubiquitous in nature § It is prevalent in virtually all countries in every region of the world. § It is a crime that indiscriminately victimizes anyone and everyone. § It ruthlessly exploits women, children and men for numerous purposes including forced labor and sex. Copyright © 2017 Suman Kakar. All rights reserved.

Understanding Trafficking in Persons– Motive is Greed § It affects virtually every person and every country in every region of the world. § It is a global crime that transcends all geographical and demographic boundaries. § It engenders conditions where economic gain becomes the guiding principle and human beings are treated as commodities and units of production. Copyright © 2017 Suman Kakar. All rights reserved.

Understanding Trafficking in Persons – Motive is Greed § Both the perpetrators and victims of this crime can be located in almost all countries of the world. § It in-discriminatively victimizes anyone regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, color, SES, or citizenship. § The only motive is greed. Copyright © 2017 Suman Kakar. All rights reserved.

Understanding Trafficking in Persons – Motive is Greed § Trafficking engenders conditions of § exploitation and § severe human rights violations. § Greed - not human welfare, rights, or companion - drive this enterprise - and victims are exploited for economic gain. Copyright © 2017 Suman Kakar. All rights reserved.

Understanding Trafficking in Persons § By some estimates, this global crime generates billions of dollars in profits for traffickers. § International Labor Organization estimates that 20. 9 million people are victims of forced labor – in terms of sex and labor trafficking globally. Copyright © 2017 Suman Kakar. All rights reserved.

Understanding Trafficking in Persons – Definition § Trafficking is understood and defined differently by different entities, organizations, and others. It is conceptualized, described and understood differently in different contexts. § In general, it is a process by which people are recruited in their community and exploited by traffickers using deception and/or some form of coercion to lure and control them Copyright © 2017 Suman Kakar. All rights reserved.

Understanding Trafficking in Persons – Definition • “Trafficking in Persons” has been recognized as a term on its own. • The first-ever agreed upon definition of trafficking, now known as Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons was incorporated in 2000, which supplemented the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. • The United Nations criminalized human trafficking under the protocols of Transnational Organized Crime in 2000 and adopted the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children. Copyright © 2017 Suman Kakar. All rights reserved.

Understanding Trafficking in Persons – Definition • The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children - a protocol against Transnational Organized Crime - was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000 and entered into force on December 25, 2003. As of June 2015 it has been ratified by 167 parties. • Trafficking in Persons Protocol (Article 3) provided a uniformity in describing the phenomenon of trafficking in persons. It also provided elements that clearly distinguished it from other crimes that may look and sound similar such as smuggling and illegal immigration, but are legally different. Copyright © 2017 Suman Kakar. All rights reserved.

The full set of Power. Point slides is available upon adoption. Email bhall@cap-press. com for more information. Copyright © 2017 Suman Kakar. All rights reserved.