What is Child TraffickingAct Against Injustice - According to the U.S State Department's Annual Trafficking in Persons Report, "Severe forms of trafficking in person" are defined as:
a) 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 has not attained 18 years old; or
b) the recruitment, harbouring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labour or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purplose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.
The United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficing in Persons, especially Women and Children, defines trafficking in persons as:
"…the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of 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 or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery orpractices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.“
“Sexual Trafficking is the recruitment, transportation (within national or across international borders), transfer, harbouring, or receipt of persons for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation. Sexual trafficking is accomplished by means of fraud, deception, threat of or use of force, abuse of a position of vulnerability, and other forms of coercion.
Trafficking of persons exists in two distinct types: labour trafficking and sexual trafficking. "This new distinction avoids the problem of combining into a single category both labour violations and violations that are more akin to a forcible sexual assault.”
"In a few weeks, I'm going to release our annual Department of State Report on Human Trafficking and that report probes even the darkest places, calling to account any country, friend or foe, that is not doing enough to combat human trafficking. Though many complain, the power of shame has stirred many to action and sparked unprecedented reforms. Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling and we will never subjugate it to the narrow demands of the day."
(Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State)
