Human trafficking is such a broad topic with many different definitions and opinions but here’s what I think best describes human trafficking.
The UN convention against transnational organized crime (otherwise know as the Palermo protocol) defines “trafficking in persons” as the; “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 or power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or received my of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.” While the protocol defines trafficking as, “the exploitation of the prostitution, forced labour or services, slavery, or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.” Some people consider sex work, such as prostitution as human trafficking. For example, activist, author and expert on human trafficking and modern day slavery, Siddharth Kara equates prostitution with sex trafficking. While, author and co-author of the Global Slavery Index, professor of Contemporary Slavery at the University of Nottingham, and co-founder and recently president of Free the Slaves. Kevin Bales considers human trafficking as modern day slavery. To conclude, and give a simpler definition, human trafficking is the illegal, recruiting, harboring(transporting), of a person for the typically for the purpose of forced labour and or sexual exploitation. However, there's many other things people get trafficked for. Human trafficking is the worlds second largest criminal enterprise in the world and the fastest growing buissness of organized crime.
Now that we know what human trafficking is we can start to form our own opinion on it and realize the importance of it. Which well then help us to answer the main question of, why is human trafficking such an important issue in our current world today?
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