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e. Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation. [1] Human trafficking can occur within a country or trans-nationally. It is distinct from people smuggling, which is characterized by the consent of the person being smuggled.
Sex trafficking is human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation. It has been called a form of modern slavery because of the way victims are forced into sexual acts non-consensually, in a form of sexual slavery. [ 1 ] Perpetrators of the crime are called sex traffickers or pimps —people who manipulate victims to engage in various ...
v. t. e. Sex trafficking in the United States is a form of human trafficking which involves reproductive slavery or commercial sexual exploitation as it occurs in the United States. Sex trafficking includes the transportation of persons by means of coercion, deception and/or force into exploitative and slavery-like conditions. [ 1 ]
More than 130 people, including a man from Rootstown, were arrested in a statewide human-trafficking operation last week, according to the Ohio Attorney General's office. More than 100 law ...
Sep. 3—SANTA FE — A 12-day law enforcement operation targeting human trafficking in southern New Mexico resulted in more than 90 migrants being rescued and at least 16 individuals arrested on ...
The Trafficking in Persons Report, or the TIP Report, is an annual report issued since 2001 by the U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. It ranks governments based on their perceived efforts to acknowledge and combat human trafficking. [ 1 ][ 2 ]
Laura J. Lederer (born 1951) is a pioneer in the work to stop human trafficking. [citation needed] She is a legal scholar and former Senior Advisor on Trafficking in Persons in the Office for Democracy and Global Affairs of the United States Department of State. [6]
Human trafficking in California is the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of reproductive slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, and forced labor as it occurs in the state of California. Human trafficking, widely recognized as a modern-day form of slavery, includes. "the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt ...