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Human trafficking

Human trafficking is the transportation , recruitment of persons for forced labor , servitude and slavery purposes . This includes debt bondages and labor bondage . It is estimated that revenue from trafficked persons averages between 5-9 billion dollars annually . It is thus a growing global epidemic that requires concerted efforts to curb Deceitfulness and greed of the human traffickers is making this problem a very tricky issue to deal with (Jones , et al , 2007 , 16

The traffickers usually recruit their victims by employing

tactics such as deception , coercion and fraudulent approaches . Sometimes there is the outright abuse and use of power through abduction and furthermore victims sometimes consent to different forms of exploitation from violent threats or leverages of an economic nature such as debt bondages

There are various forms of exploitation of the victims . The most common being forced sexual exploitation or prostitution of mainly women and children . Slavery and forced labour are practices that characterize human trafficking not forgetting illegal national and international child adoption and removal of people 's organs for trade . Other forms of child exploitation include recruitment into child soldiers , early marriages , beggars , cults or religious purposes and some forms of sports like children camel jockeys and football (Emmers , Thomas , 2006 , 14

Human trafficking is different from smuggling of people in the sense that in people smuggling individuals will voluntarily ask for the services of a smuggler for a fee without necessarily involving illegal agreements as those made by deception . The...

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