Sex trafficking
Sex Trafficking
Sex trafficking (/sɛks ˈtræfɪkɪŋ/) is a form of human trafficking, a serious crime that involves the exploitation of individuals through force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
Etymology
The term "sex trafficking" is derived from the words "sex", referring to the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women, and "trafficking", which originates from "traffic" (/ˈtræfɪk/), a term used to describe the movement of goods or people, particularly when it is heavy or problematic.
Definition
Sex trafficking is defined by the United Nations in the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of threat, 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.
Related Terms
- Human Trafficking: The act of recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for compelled labor or commercial sex acts through the use of force, fraud, or coercion.
- Exploitation: The action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work.
- Coercion: The practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats.
- Abduction: The act of forcibly taking someone away against their will.
See Also
- Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children
- United Nations
- Crime
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Sex trafficking
- Wikipedia's article - Sex trafficking
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