UNA-ORLANDO - HUMAN TRAFFICKING INTRO

HUMAN TRAFFICKING

INTRO

Trafficking in persons is the acquisition of people by means such as force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them. Smuggling of migrants involves the financial or other material benefit procurement of illegal entry of a person into a State of which that person is not a national or resident. Virtually every country in the world is affected by these crimes. The challenge for all countries, is to target the criminals who exploit desperate people. To protect and assist these victims of trafficking and smuggled migrants, many of whom endure unimaginable hardships in their bid for a better life.

LEARNING RESOURCES

VIDEO

ARTICLES

Recognizing Human TraffickingLabor trafficking is the crime of using force, fraud or coercion to induce another individual to work or provide service. Common types include agriculture, domestic work, restaurants, cleaning services, and carnivals.

UN rights expert urges States to step-up anti-slavery efforts to protect most vulnerable during COVID-19 A UN human rights expert urged governments on Tuesday to increase protection for those millions of workers, who due to the COVID-19 pandemic, risk being pushed into exploitative jobs that are tantamount to slavery.

Governments urged to protect poor against modern slavery, step up development financingUnless governments act now, millions of the world’s most vulnerable people could be pushed into contemporary forms of slavery and other exploitation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a UN independent human rights expert has said.

In U.S. Restaurants, Bars And Food Trucks, 'Modern Slavery' PersistsA new report highlights victims of human trafficking in the food industry, from farm workers to restaurant cooks and wait staff. Some victims are exploited for both sex and labor.

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad visits the impoverished camps for the men building the skyscrapers of Dubai and Abu DhabiGhaith Abdul-Ahad: Behind the dizzying construction boom is an army of migrant labourers lured into a life of squalor and exploitation

How sex traffickers use modeling contracts to lure young womenProsecutors say financier Jeffrey Epstein allegedly found underage girls through a man who promised the women modeling contracts in the US. How common is this scheme to snare women into trafficking rings?

Trafficked into slavery on Thai trawlers to catch food for prawnsThe Thai fishing industry is built on slavery, with men often beaten, tortured and sometimes killed - all to catch 'trash fish' to feed the cheap farmed prawns sold in the west

Bitter Chocolate - End Slavery NowShowing you how to join the anti-slavery movement

Page updated

Report abuse