By Lina Meneses Espinoza and Barbara Zanette
Human trafficking is an international crime that has seriously developed all over the world; this illegal global trade is continuously growing. Recent estimates of global profits from human trafficking are as high as 32 billion Dollars, if both the sale of individuals and the value of their exploited labor or services are taken into account. In order to properly understand what can be counted into this “modern day slavery”, it is important to define the concept of human trafficking. According to the UN Protocol Act 2000 , at art. 3 human trafficking is defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or 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 minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs”. Read Full PDF Version
Tags: human trafficking, international crime, International Mediation, Mediation, modern slavery
