Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Human Trafficking

Recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or 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. (UN. Protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children, supplementing the United Nations convention against transnational organized crime. General Assembly resolution 55/25. United Nations General Assembly, 2000)

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Abstract

Recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or 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. (UN. Protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children, supplementing the United Nations convention against transnational organized crime. General Assembly resolution 55/25. United Nations General Assembly, 2000)

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6 entry terms
  • Human Traffickings
  • Trafficking, Human
  • Traffickings, Human
  • Sex Trafficking
  • Sex Traffickings
  • Trafficking, Sex

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10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, prevention & control, psychology, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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History Note

2014

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  1. I01w.198w.240w.748w.470w
  2. I01w.880w.735w.384.399w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Human Trafficking. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D064410. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D064410
  2. Human Trafficking. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking
  3. Human Trafficking. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181784