Human Trafficking Within the European Union
HUMAN TRAFFICKING WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION
By: John Gomez Londono
ID: 102229
Professors: Phil Eyre and Nick Taylor
GRENOBLE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
JANUARY 7TH OF 2011
INTRODUCTION
Europe had always been proud that slavery was eradicated here before than any other continent, unfortunately slavery has come back in even more repulsive forms that generate exorbitant profits, the human trafficking. We are facing a type of exceptionally dangerous criminal activity, which represents the third source of income of organized crime after arms and drugs trafficking. At the time that slavery was not classified by law as a crime, slaves were often sold on the market like fresh fruit. Today, human trafficking is prohibited internationally, but the business continues to flourish in secret. Millions of people are used as slaves and forced to work in inhumane conditions for someone else benefit.
The United Nations definition of human trafficking is “The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring 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 or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation”. This meant to provide consistency and consensus around the world on the phenomenon of trafficking in persons.
Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal activity in the European Union, and the measures taken to reduce this phenomenon have not produced tangible results yet.
These people are used in all types of industries, agriculture and services. Most are held captive by debt, forced to work through violence to pay a claim, which in some cases has been inherited, from an ancestor. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are traded across borders to work in domestic service,
By: John Gomez Londono
ID: 102229
Professors: Phil Eyre and Nick Taylor
GRENOBLE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
JANUARY 7TH OF 2011
INTRODUCTION
Europe had always been proud that slavery was eradicated here before than any other continent, unfortunately slavery has come back in even more repulsive forms that generate exorbitant profits, the human trafficking. We are facing a type of exceptionally dangerous criminal activity, which represents the third source of income of organized crime after arms and drugs trafficking. At the time that slavery was not classified by law as a crime, slaves were often sold on the market like fresh fruit. Today, human trafficking is prohibited internationally, but the business continues to flourish in secret. Millions of people are used as slaves and forced to work in inhumane conditions for someone else benefit.
The United Nations definition of human trafficking is “The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring 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 or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation”. This meant to provide consistency and consensus around the world on the phenomenon of trafficking in persons.
Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal activity in the European Union, and the measures taken to reduce this phenomenon have not produced tangible results yet.
These people are used in all types of industries, agriculture and services. Most are held captive by debt, forced to work through violence to pay a claim, which in some cases has been inherited, from an ancestor. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are traded across borders to work in domestic service,