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Human Trafficking

Human trafficking could be described as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, Harboring or receipt of people for the purpose of exploitation. It involves a process of using illicit means such as threat, use of force, or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse power to vulnerability.

            Exploitation also includes forcing people into prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation, force labor or services, slavery, servitude or the removal of organs. For children exploitation may include illicit international adoption, trafficking for early marriage.

            Human trafficking differ from people smuggling. In the latter, people voluntarily request smugglers service for fees and there may be no deception involve in the

Illegal agreement on the arrival at there destination, the smuggled person is usually free. On the other hand, the trafficking victim is enslaved, or the terms of their dept bondage 

are fraudulent or highly exploitative. These traffickers take away the basic human right of the victim. Victims are sometimes tricked a d lured by false promises or physically forced. Some traffickers use coercive and manipulative tactics including deception, intimidation, feigned love, isolation, threat and use of physical force, dept bondage, or even force- feeding with drugs to control their victims.

            Trafficking of children, often involves exploitation of the parents extreme poverty. The latter may sell children to traffickers in other to pay off debts or gain income or they may be deceived concerning the prospects training and a better life for their children.

            The adoption process, legal and illegal result in cases of trafficking of basics and pregnant women between the west and the developing world.

            Women who form 80% of trafficking victims, are particularly at risk to become involved in sex trafficking. Potential kidnappers exploit lack of opportunities for study and then force the victims to become prostitute, participate  pornography or escort services through agents and brokers who arrange travel and job placement, women are escorted to their destinations and delivered to the employers. Upon reaching their destinations, some women learn that they have been deceived about the nature of the work they do. The main motive of a women (In some cases an underage girls) to accept offer from a trafficker is better financial opportunities for herself or her family. In many cases traffickers initially offer “legitimate” work or the promise of an opportunity to study. The main types of work offered are catering and hotel industry, in bars and clubs, modeling contracts, traffickers sometimes use offer of marriage , threats, intimidation and kidnapping as means of obtaining victims. In the majority cases, women end up in prostitution, but they have an inaccurate view of the circumstances and the condition of the work in their country of destination.

            Men are also at risk of being trafficked for unskilled work predominantly involving hard labor. Other forms of trafficking include bonded of sweatshop labor. Forced marriage and domestic servitude. Children are also trafficked both labor exploitation. Many women are forced into the sex trade after answering false advertisements, and others are simply kidnapped. Thousands of children from Asia, Africa, and South America are sold into the global sex trade every year. Often they are kidnapped or orphaned, and sometimes they are actually sold by their own family.