Human Trafficking

I.       Definition

The United Nations (UN) defines “trafficking in persons” as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, 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 of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation’.

Based on the above definition, we can say that human trafficking is an activity of recruitment process, of evacuation, of relocation and delivery of human for the work or service by using threat or by using way of hardness, slavery, and deception for the purpose of exploitation.

II.    Causes of Human Trafficking

There are some key factors, including:

1.      Lack of awareness when seeking jobs of the dangers of trafficking.

2.      Poverty which forces people to seek any job while ignoring the risks.

3.      Cultural factors have made women and children vulnerable to trafficking through Forced marriage by parents, and through early marriage.

4.      Weak enforcement of laws in dealing about Trafficking cases.

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