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Types, Causes, and Effects of Human Trafficking When it comes to human trafficking is impossible not to think about slavery because Trafficking in humans was once called slavery. Human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring 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. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude, and the removal of organs. In order to shed light to this growing social issue, we need to focus on both the causes and effects that have led to human trafficking.
According The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) the causes of human trafficking are numerous and complex. Concerning traffickers, human trafficking brings high and quick profits with few start-up costs. The risk of prosecution is often small in most countries. Punishment for the crime of human trafficking is lower than for trafficking drugs. Concerning victims, interlinked causes of trafficking include poverty, gender bias, family breakdown, violence and armed conflict, displacement, various discriminatory policies in receiving countries, increased use of technology and demographic factors.
The gender bias is a factor that make Women and girls at particular risk of becoming victims of trafficking due to diverse factors, such as the high global prevalence of violence and discrimination against women; unequal access to education and the consequent lack of good employment opportunities which may render women more susceptible to false promises of work abroad; the lack of legal channels of entry for unskilled
According The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) the causes of human trafficking are numerous and complex. Concerning traffickers, human trafficking brings high and quick profits with few start-up costs. The risk of prosecution is often small in most countries. Punishment for the crime of human trafficking is lower than for trafficking drugs. Concerning victims, interlinked causes of trafficking include poverty, gender bias, family breakdown, violence and armed conflict, displacement, various discriminatory policies in receiving countries, increased use of technology and demographic factors.
The gender bias is a factor that make Women and girls at particular risk of becoming victims of trafficking due to diverse factors, such as the high global prevalence of violence and discrimination against women; unequal access to education and the consequent lack of good employment opportunities which may render women more susceptible to false promises of work abroad; the lack of legal channels of entry for unskilled
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