Human trafficking
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Human trafficking is the trade of humans, most commonly for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. or the extraction of organs or tissues, including for surrogacy and ova removal. Human trafficking can occur within a country or trans-nationally. Human trafficking is a crime against the person because of the violation of the victim's rights of movement through coercion and because of their commercial exploitation. Human trafficking is the trade in people, especially women and children, and does not necessarily involve the movement of the person from one place to another.
According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), forced labor alone (one component of human trafficking) generates an estimated $150 billion in profits per annum as of 2014. In 2012, the I.L.O. estimated that 21 million victims are trapped in modern-day slavery. Of these, 14.2 million (68%) were exploited for labor, 4.5 million (22%) were sexually exploited, and 2.2 million (10%) were exploited in state-imposed forced labor.
Human trafficking is thought to be one of the fastest-growing activities of trans-national criminal organizations.
Human trafficking is condemned as a violation of human rights by international conventions. In addition, human trafficking is subject to a directive in the European Union.
See also
- Bride-buying
- Comfort woman
- Financial abuse
- Gaslighting
- List of organizations opposing human trafficking
- Kidnapping
- Migrant sex work
- Power and control in abusive relationships
- Serious and Organised Crime Group
- Sexual jihad
- Sexual trafficking in Kosovo
- Sharecropping
- She Has a Name
- South East Asia Court of Women on HIV and Human Trafficking
- Transnational efforts to prevent human trafficking
- Western princess
- Wife selling
