2nd Term
HUMAN
TRAFFICKING
Meaning:
Human trafficking is the trade of humans
for the purpose of forced labour, sexual
slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation
for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse
in the context of forced marriage, or the extraction of organs or
tissues, including for surrogacy and ova removal. Human trafficking can occur within a country or
trans-nationally. Human trafficking is a crime against the person because of
the violation of the victim's rights of movement through coercion and because
of their commercial exploitation. Human trafficking is the
trade in people, especially women and children, and does not necessarily
involve the movement of the person from one place to another.
Causes of
human trafficking: (1)poverty, (2)greed, (3)low self-esteem, (4)unemployment, (5)ineffective
sanctions, (6)corruption,
Consequences
of human trafficking (1) it casts aspersion on the people (2) it results in
depopulation (3) it deprives the nation of her talented population (4) it
dehumanizes (5) it limits the victim below her potential (6)Stigmatization (7)
it reduces the human dignity to commercial entity.
Government
and individual effort to stop human trafficking (1)NATIP (2) Enactment of
laws (3)NGO’s like WATCLEF
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