Human Trafficking: Prostitution And Transnational Organized Crime

Human trafficking is not a new phenomenon as it was a violation against humanity about 200 years ago. It has received a lot of attention in the media for last three decades. It has become a major international concern. International organizations, governments and civil societies have increasingly focused their attention on trafficking and also on effective measures to prevent trafficking. Trafficking in human beings and the issues like prostitution, child labour, slavery, irregular migration and transnational organized crime has been put on political agenda at international, national and regional levels. It has been noted that most analysis of trafficking in human beings have focused on the role of organized crime groups in the supply and
delivery of women across borders and into local sex markets. Human trafficking effects each and every sections of the society and it refers to the recruitment, transportation, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, 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.
There are various conceptions of Human Trafficking. It has been conceptualised as a form of Slavery. It has been held up as the worst form of exploitation in the human history. Kidnapping, auction blocks and chattel slaves forced to work in chains may be rare incidents today. Contemporary form of slavery is marked not only by legal ownership of one human being by another or long term enslavement but by temporary possession, balance burden and forced labour and is totally different from traditional forms of slavery.
First Human Trafficking has coalesced around contested positions on issues of prostitution, individual agency and consent.
Second Human Trafficking has been conceptualised within a framework of organised crime.