Human trafficking

Introduction

Human trafficking is defined as: recruitment, transportation, purchasing, transfer, harboring 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 labor practices similar to slavery, in a community different from the person who lived in time of the act that led to his arrest.

Discussion

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.

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 (Aronowitz, 163).

Although the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) since 2006 tried to draw the global picture on this scourge, and over one hundred countries have adopted the Protocol against trafficking in persons, bodies NGOs warn that there are still many countries, particularly in Africa, which still lack the necessary legal instruments ...