| Trafficking in Persons Report -Report Home Page Released by the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons June 4, 2008 Human Trafficking Defined The chart below, developed by the Solidarity Center, extrapolated and simplified from the 2000 UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially women and children definition, is a useful tool for analyzing individual cases to determine whether or not they constitute trafficking. In order for a situation to be trafficking, it must have at least one of the elements within each of the three criteria of Process, Means, and Goal.
Human Trafficking is: Process + Way/Means + Goal Recruitment or Transportation or Transferring or Harboring or Receiving A N D Threat or Coercion or Abduction or Fraud or Deceit or Deception or Abuse of Power A N D Prostitution or Pornography or Violence/Sexual Exploitation or Forced Labor or Involuntary Servitude or Debt Bondage or Slavery/Similar practices If one condition from each category is met, the result is trafficking. For adults, victim consent is irrelevant if one of the Means is employed. For children consent is irrelevant with or without the Means category. |
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