DEFINING HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Human trafficking is a global crime that trades in people and exploits them for profit. People of all genders, ages, and backgrounds can become victims of this crime, which occurs in every region of the world. Traffickers use violence, fraudulent employment agencies, and fake promises of education and job opportunities to trick, coerce, and deceive their victims. (Picture Source: https://www.insightsonindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/human-traffiking.jpg)
The organized networks or individuals behind this lucrative crime take advantage of people who are vulnerable, desperate, or simply seeking a better life. Human trafficking is defined in the UN Trafficking in Persons Protocol, which supplements the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, as “the recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring or receipt of a person by such means as threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud or deception for the purpose of exploitation”.
Do the acts, means, and purpose in our law, the same as what the UNODC interprets? In our next slide presentation, we will know all those things.
Let’s just emphasize this one; The act of trafficking, which means the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons. The means on the other hand of trafficking include the threat of or use of force, deception, coercion, abuse of power, or position of vulnerability, while the purpose of trafficking is always exploitation, and that is what the above framework means.
Let us then watch and read the slide presentation to give you more ideas about it and how human trafficking was defined under our law.
Acts means and purpose of human trafficking are clear now, same with its legal definition for as long the Philippine Law on human trafficking is concerned. That’s your major takeaway in this chapter!
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