A Report On Human Trafficking - 3218 Words

PRELIMINARY STATEMENT Human trafficking, (H.T.), has far reaching global effects. No state is immune to, and no state is free of, H.T. violations and the personal and state damages of the crime. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, (UNDOC), the four prongs required to find H.T. are: (a) the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the 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†¦show more content†¦Human trafficking is, and has always been, present in every nation on earth either as openly accepted slavery in the past, covert slavery in the present, or as a state being an intermediate travel point or destination for victims, an operating center for perpetrators, or a combination of all forms. However, nations that experience instability, civil war, weak legal structure, and extreme poverty are most vulnerable to exploitation by human traffickers. (Makisaka, p. 11) Every known ancient civilization used slaves. The Babyloni an Code of Hammurabi provides rules and penalties regarding the treatment of slaves. (HISTORY OF SLAVERY). The ancient Egyptians enslaved captives of war, and lower class members of their own society such as debtors, or prisoners. (Ancient Egypt: Slavery, Its Causes and Practice). The well known history of Greece and Rome make it clear that those societies were dependent upon the labor of slaves. The sultanates of the Middle Eastern Arab States purchased East Africans for agriculture, soldiers, and salt miners. (Story of Africa| BBC World Service). Women were captured as sex slaves. Ibid. Even the modern word, slave, is rooted in the 10th Century German expansion s conquest and capture of vast numbers of Slavs, and the Russian s extensive sale of Slavs to the