What is Human Trafficking?

Everyone who has seen the movie Taken knows a little bit about the horrors of human trafficking, but that isn't the entire story...

Check out this video about Taken and human trafficking

Its more than just some American teenagers who get invited to a party by an attractive foreign boy and then get trapped in the underground world of sex trafficking.

The United Nations has defined by international law that human trafficking is “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 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”

That's a pretty dense definition isn't it? What it comes down to is that human trafficking is making someone do something against their will.

It is a problem that thrives in the shadows of our modern society and is found in all countries in the world.