Trafficking in Women

What is trafficking
Recruitment, transport from one place to another
Aim: exploit for bodies
Missing persons
Trafficking vs. smuggling

Modus Operandi
• Traffickers place ads for job opportunities
• Girls/women bought
• Picked from bars, discos, nightclubs
• Forced into counterfeit marriages
• Abducted; sold into slavery/prostitution
• Recruitment means: deception, coercion, threats,
buying/selling & exploitation

Forms of exploitation/control
• Forced to work long hours, 7x a week
• Emotional, physical and sexual abuse
• Organ removal; debt bondage; Isolation; sequestration
• 3 – D jobs: dirty, dangerous & difficult

Factors in human trafficking
• Poor people; war-torn countries; catastrophes
• Orphans easy targets
• Targets promised job opportunities
• Made to sign bona fide documents
• Globalization
• Feeble state systems

CASE
STUDIES

Japan
• Juvenile delinquency: street robberies;
voluntary sex
• Lolita complex
• Soapland shops
• Hotetoru business
• Yakuza

Nepal
• Economic problems
• Cross-border trafficking
• Deception
• Naïve families
• Counterfeit marriages
• Fragile state system

“My ‘prince charming’ promised me a better
life in Holland. I could leave behind a life of poverty and
family problems. But I couldn’t fathom that I would be
exploited by a criminal network. My ‘prince’ was a
monster. And I lived a nightmare. I had to work in a
cheap brothel in Germany near the Dutch border. I
had terrible problems with STDs [sexually transmitted
diseases]. I also worked in a fancy mansion close to
Amsterdam, with drugs, alcohol and wealthy clients. My
body, my soul … my life belonged to a group of criminals
who blackmailed me, threatened to kill me and were
always saying they could harm my family back home.”
Trafficking victim - UNODC

Why HR violation?
• Victims already deprived of basic needs
• Held against wills
• Rights – security, autonomy, dignity, freedom –
breached
• Precarious conditions

Action Plan
• Identify trafficking routes
• Arrest and prosecute culprits
• Help victims
• Encourage collaboration
• Respects rights of victims

Conclusion
• Take measures to curb trafficking
• People have died
• Collaborate and take precautionary measures
• Realize rights of civilians
• Compensate victims and families
• Allow victims to voice frustration

Thank you