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Trafficking in Women and Children: USG Definition 


What is the nature and magnitude of trafficking? 

At its core, the international trade in women and children is about abduction, coercion, violence and exploitation in the most reprehensible ways. 

A trafficking scheme involves a continuum of actors and actions. It includes recruitment, abduction, transport, harboring, transfer, sale or receipt of persons through various types of coercion, force, fraud or deception for the purpose of placing persons in situations of slavery or slavery-like conditions, servitude, forced labor or services. Examples include, but are not limited to, sexual servitude, coerced prostitution, domestic servitude, bonded sweatshop labor or other debt bondage. 

Trafficking in Women and Children: Human Rights Issue 

Trafficking in Women and Children: Economics and Migration Issue 

Trafficking in Women and Children: Transnational Crime Issue 

Trafficking in Women and Children: Conclusion