SOCHUM

Tackling the issue of human trafficking; Prevention,

protection and prosecution.
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Human trafficking is the industry of human trading, usually for sexual
slavery and exploitation or forced labor purposes. It refers to the
obtainment of humans, using illegal means such as fraud, blackmailing or
force to get them aiming to exploit them in any possible way. In many
cases people who become victims of human trafficking are forced to
marry strangers under some kind of agreement between the two trading
sides, or they even have their organs removed.
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Human trafficking is nowadays arranged through internet-based
social media, something that has made it less detectable by national
authorities and international organisation aiming to promote the
protection of human rights. Human trafficking undoubtedly
constitutes an action of violence and bluntly diminishes the integrity
of humans.
 BASIC DEFINITIONS
1. Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) is a federal law concerning the
prevention, protection and prosecution of human trafficking. In there, there
are some basic definitions of profound importance. To be more specific,
2. Involuntary servitude: A condition of servitude induced by means of any
scheme, plan, or pattern intended to cause a person to believe that, if the
person did not enter into or continue in such condition, that person or
another person would suffer serious harm or physical restraint; or the abuse
or threatened abuse of the legal process (22 U.S.C. 7102 (6)).
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3. Debt Bondage: The status or condition of a debtor arising from a pledge by the debtor of
his or her personal services or of those of a person under his or her control as a security
for debt, if the value of those services as reasonably assessed is not applied toward the
liquidation of the debt or the length and nature of those services are not respectively
limited and defined (22 U.S.C. 7102 (5)).
4. Coercion: (A) threats of serious harm to or physical restraint against any person; (B) any
scheme, plan, or pattern intended to cause a person to believe that failure to perform an
act would result in serious harm to or physical restraint against any person; or (C) the
abuse or threatened abuse of the legal process (22 U.S.C. 7102 (3)).
 INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK
It is obvious that human trafficking is a thorny issue nowadays and
that the international community cannot stand ignorant. In order for
the problem to be solved, international and domestic legislative
initiatives are of vital importance, such as but not limited to:
1. International framework for Action
2. Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Persons
3. Resolution2331 by the Security Council