What Is Humen Trafficking

Trafficking is illicit trafficking in human beings for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation or slavery reproductive, forced labor, or in the form of modern-day slavery
Adopted the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (also referred to as the Trafficking Protocol) by the United Nations in Palermo, Italy in 2000, and international legal agreement attached to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. Trafficking Protocol is one of the three protocols adopted to complete the agreement. The Protocol is the first legally binding global instrument on trafficking in more than half a century and the only one who determines an agreed definition of trafficking in persons. The purpose of this Protocol is to facilitate convergence in national cooperation in the investigation and prosecution of trafficking in persons. Additional objective of the Protocol is to protect and assist victims of trafficking with full respect for their human rights. Trafficking Protocol defines trafficking as follows:
(A) [...] recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by means of 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 weakness or 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 labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs;
(B) The consent of a victim of trafficking in persons to the intended exploitation set forth in subparagraph (a) of this article shall be irrelevant in cases of any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) have been used;
The (c) The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation shall be considered "trafficking in persons" even if this does not involve any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) of this article;
(D) "Child" shall mean any person under eighteen years of age.
Trafficking Protocol entered into force on 25 December 2003. By June 2010, they have ratified the protocol traffic from 117 countries and parties 137.