What is human trafficking ?

The United Nations introduced the Protocol against human trafficking supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime endeavours to define the phenomenon and provides a common ground for criminalising the heinous act. According to the Protocol, ‘trafficking, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of 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 labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.’