What is trafficking in persons?
Trafficking in persons – also known as “human trafficking” – is a form of modern-day slavery. Traffickers often prey on individuals who are poor, frequently unemployed or underemployed, and who may lack access to social safety nets, predominantly women and children in certain countries. Victims are often lured with false promises of good jobs and better lives, and then forced to work under brutal and inhuman conditions. Under federal law, the technical term for modern-day slavery or coerced labor is “severe forms of trafficking in persons.” “Severe forms of trafficking in persons” is defined as 1) sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion or in which the person induced to perform such an act is under 18; or 2) the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion, for the purpose of subjecting that person to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bonda
Related Questions
- Two countries of Central Asia have been singled out in the Trafficking in Persons Report. What is the trafficking situation like in Central Asia?
- What is the difference between this report and the State Departments Human Rights Report and Trafficking in Persons Report?
- What is the Difference Between Trafficking in Persons and Human Smuggling?
