HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Human Trafficking



Human Trafficking

Introduction

Human trafficking, also known as modern-day slavery or trafficking in persons, is a criminal act  and a violation of basic human rights (e.g., right to freedom, right to dignity, right to equal protection of the law) that affects every country in the world. Human trafficking is one of the few crimes that has been pursued from a victim's perspective, with a focus on prevention of trafficking, protection of victims, and prosecution of traffickers. This entry explores the definition of trafficking and related common misunderstandings, and includes an examination of the size, scope, and patterns of trafficking; sample profiles of traffickers and victims; and responses to human trafficking (Schauer & Wheaton, 2006, 146-169).

Human trafficking is defined as: recruitment, transportation, purchasing, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons by threat or use of violence kidnapping, fraud, deception, coercion (including, do the abuse of authority) or bonded debts, in order to place such per- person or retain, whether on a paid or not, or doing forced labour practices similar to slavery, in a community different from the person who lived in time of the act that led to his arrest (Scully, 2001, 74-107).

The end of the War Cold and fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 (its symbol) opened a new wave of immigrants and the resurgence of the practice of moving traffic or criminal and smuggling of people across international borders is after the drugs and weapons , the most lucrative and growing stronger. The Western world and its apparent horizon of prosperity on the one hand, and the powerful attraction they feel towards this impoverished masses of the rest of the land, provide fertile ground for the action of human traffickers who prey on the lack the standards of prevention and lack of enforcement and the fact that migrants are unaware of the dangers (Raymond & Richard, 2005, 447-477).

In the black continent, human trafficking serves to name a crime rather be defined as slavery. It is a crime being committed every day of the year with the almost total global indifference. Despite the huge number of laws to prevent trafficking in persons, the crime of trafficking is a major industry in Africa. With victims from the same of the poorest regions of Asia or the Middle East, the caravans of death “slaves” usually cover daily routes from Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia, to Mauritania, Senegal, Nigeria and Sierra Leone (Hughes et al., 2007, 901-922).

This modern form of slavery means that from this point of embarkation on the African coast come out the same merchant ships loaded with cargo containers that people who are shackled instead of hands and feet tied with plastic strips, and on many occasions, to wear uniforms like those used in any prison in the world and that in many cases are labelled (Farr, 2005, 124-131).

And at sea, the slaves of today are marketed if their destination was not given in advance, when they were captured either in central Asia, southern Africa or ...