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On THB phenomenon
In the opinion of experts, trafficking in human beings is following
trafficking in drugs, arms, and money laundry, the most profitable
activity of the organised crime. Most people equate trafficking in human
beings with prostitution and people smuggling.
Some people, who think
they know more about that phenomenon, are convinced that trafficking in
human beings comprises also selling out children either kidnapped or
those who have lost their parents.
However, there is one thing these people have in common: they are all
convinced that THB phenomenon does not exist in their environments.
Wrong
The consequence of trafficking in human beings is disposing of a person,
i.e. treating a person as an object with the intention of exploiting it.
In practice, this means the person is somebody's property and is deprived
of freedom.
LET US TAKE THE ROLE OF A SLAVE AND WE SHALL UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF
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The most frequent phenomena are exploiting for the purpose of
prostitution or other forms of sexual abuse, forced labour, slavery,
servitude, trafficking in human organs, tissues and blood. All cases
involve severe violations of human rights.
It's been happening also in your living environment!
Following a definition (Convention on Action against Trafficking in
Human Beings, Council of Europe, 2005), three key groups of elements are
present in trafficking in human beings:
- recruitment, transportation,
transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons;
- by means of the threat,
the use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of
deception, of the abuse of power, of a position of vulnerability, or of
the giving and receiving payments or other benefits in order to achieve
the consent from a person to accept exploitation;
- the purpose of
exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the prostitution and other
forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or
practices similar to slavery or servitude…
If we want to address competently this issue with reference to
juveniles, the presence of recruitment, transportation, harbouring or
receiving of persons with the intention of exploiting them is sufficient
(without other elements mentioned above).
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The consent given by an individual to prostitute, to work in conditions
inappropriate for human beings, or to become involved in other forms of
abuse and contemporary slavery does not change the culpability of acts
committed by traffickers in human beings and violations of human rights.
No one has the right to violate higher
values and rights of humanity - right to freedom, sexual integrity,
moral unacceptability of selling out human organs, etc.
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