Human Trafficking is defined as therecruitment, harbouring, transportation, provisionor obtaining of a person for commercialsex, labour or services through the use offorce, fraud, or coercion, for the purpose ofsubjecting that person to involuntaryservitudes, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.
As defined by United Nations
Two Broad Categories of Human Trafficking
Labor Trafficking:
Domestic ServiceSweat Shops/FactoriesBeggingAgricultural WorkMiningBrick KilnsChild Soldiers
Sexual Trafficking:
ProstitutionStrippingLap DancingMail-order BridesChild Brides
225,000 trafficked in Southeast Asia 100,000+ trafficked in USA 161 countries involved in trafficking US $32 billion annually, worldwide.
After drugs and guns, trafficking is most profitable
Third profitable trade in the world
South Asia accounts for 2nd largest number of trafficked persons in the world after SE Asia (UNFPA,2006)
Using force, fraud or coercion to recruit, harbor, transport, obtain or employ a person for labor or services in involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage or slavery
forced to work 18-20 hours a day, seven days a week in sweat shops, fields, construction, restaurants or domestic situations
chained to their work stations or locked into rooms
given no breaks and little food or water
tricked into taking out a loan at extremely high interest rates
physically abused if they refuse to pay the high interest rates
Commercial Sex act induced by force, fraud, coercion, or in which the individual is under the age of 18
DRUGS AND WEAPONS CAN ONLY BE SOLD ONE TIME,
WOMEN, and CHILDREN CAN BE SOLD EVERY DAY, OVER AND OVER………………..
“Stopping this abuse requires going after the criminal gangs who SUPPLY the sexual predators.
But we cannot put them out of business until and unless we deal with the problem of DEMAND. And so that's why we are going after the unscrupulous adults who prey on the young and the innocent.“
President George W. Bush, speaking at theNational Training Conference on HUMAN TRAFFICKING,
July 16, 2004
Recruiter gains victim’s trust. Traffickers coerce young women and their
families. Broker poses as boyfriend. Or tricks into false marriage. Lured with promises of a "good "job. Try to interact through social network .
BUDDHISMHurt not other in ways that you yourself would Find hurtful.” Udana-Varga 5:18
CHRISTIANITYDo to others as you would have them do to
you. Luke 6:31 (NRSV)
HINDUISM
This is the sum of duty: do not do to others what would cause pain if done to you. Mahabharata 5:1517
JUDAISM
What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. This is the law: all the rest is commentary. Talmud, Shabbat 31a.
ISLAM
None of you [truly] believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself. Number 13 of Imam "Al-Nawawi's Forty Hadiths.