What is human trafficking?
Human trafficking is a global phenomenon that occurs in every country in the world. As an extremely lucrative business, it generated an estimated global annual profit of USD 236.4 billion in 2021. Human trafficking is a serious human rights violation and a global crime.
Definition according to the Palermo Protocol
Human trafficking means that a person is recruited, transported, moved across borders, received, or housed through the use of violence, threats, kidnapping, fraud, deception, abuse of power, exploitation of a vulnerable situation, or through payments of money or other benefits to a person who has control over the individual. The aim is always exploitation.
Legal basis
If a person consents to exploitation, this is legally irrelevant even if one of the aforementioned coercive measures was used. In the case of children, any recruitment, transportation, reception, or placement for the purpose of exploitation is considered human trafficking, even if no coercive measures were used. A child is defined as any person under the age of 18.
150
Billions
Yearly Revenue
49,600,000
Victims worldwide
2,500,000
New victims every year
61%
of the victimes are
women and children
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