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Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is a crime against humanity that involves recruiting, transporting, transferring, harboring or receiving a person through force, coercion, or other means for the purpose of exploiting them, such as sex work, forced labor, slavery, servitude, or organ removal. It continues to exist due to unemployment, lack of opportunities, discrimination, conflicts and corruption in many countries, as well as the unlimited demand for victims and profits from trafficking. Traffickers use deception through false employment opportunities, modeling agencies, and personal relationships to recruit victims and transport them within and between countries to exploit them.

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Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is a crime against humanity that involves recruiting, transporting, transferring, harboring or receiving a person through force, coercion, or other means for the purpose of exploiting them, such as sex work, forced labor, slavery, servitude, or organ removal. It continues to exist due to unemployment, lack of opportunities, discrimination, conflicts and corruption in many countries, as well as the unlimited demand for victims and profits from trafficking. Traffickers use deception through false employment opportunities, modeling agencies, and personal relationships to recruit victims and transport them within and between countries to exploit them.

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HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Egita Petrova
 Human Trafficking is a crime against
humanity. It involves an act of
 recruiting
 transporting

 transfering

 harbouring or receiving

a person through a use of


force, coercion or other means,
for the purpose of exploiting them.
The main aim of human
trafficking
 Exploitation of people:
 sex business, prostitution
 forced labour

 slavery

 servitude

 other blue-collar work

 removal of human’s organs

and selling them


Why it still exists?
 Unlimited number of people in
economical poor countries
 Unlimited number of clients both in
origin countries and also in
developed countries
 Unlimited number of cruel recruiters
(by Pol Holm)
 Unemployment
 Weak social and economical structure of
society
 Lack of opportunities to get education
 Temptation of better life in foreign countries
 Discrimination and violence against women
and children
 Armed conflicts
 Corruptibility of government and other officials
How it works?

ORIGINATING COUNTRY
(“donor country”)

COUNTRY OF TRANSIT

COUNTRY OF DESTINATION
(from Global Fast Movement home
page)
Who does it?
 Illegal companies, who help people to
get a job
 Want ads in newspapers
 Advertisements on internet and
different “chat portals”
 Different exchange
programs
 Model’s agencies
 Personal relations
Most popular stereotypes
 Human trafficking is not topical
problem in Latvia
 Victims of human trafficking are moral
degenerate persons, prostitutes, who
don’t need help
 Victims of human trafficking are in their
own fault, so they haven’t earned any
help
(by Baltic Institute of Social Sciences)
Shocking facts
 In 2007, 27 million
people are considered
slaves in today’s
modern society.
 161 countries out of
192 (according to the
United Nations) are
involved with human
trafficking.
 There is smuggling of
people happening each
year, worldwide, and it
has now reached
800,000 victims.

 Women and children are


still the favored target of
human trafficking each
year. They comprise 80%
of the total number of
people being trafficked.
 Human trafficking, as
an organized crime,
is approximated to
generate 32 billion
revenue each year.

 Individuals under the


age 18, make up half
of the total number
of humans being
trafficked.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Egita Petrova

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