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  2. Human trafficking - Wikipedia

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    Human trafficking can occur both within a single country or across national borders. It is distinct from people smuggling, which involves the consent of the individual being smuggled and typically ends upon arrival at the destination. In contrast, human trafficking involves exploitation and a lack of consent, often through force, fraud, or ...

  3. Commercial sexual exploitation of children - Wikipedia

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    "Over 35% of the world's population lives on less than $2.00 a day" with around 2.5 billion humans being at risk for human trafficking. [16] The parents are promised by traffickers that their children will become educated or maybe properly nourished, or even a possible money trade between groomer and parents.

  4. International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic ...

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    The 1921 Convention ensure that protection from trafficking and sexual exploitation on the international level. The Article 6 states that "The High Contracting Parties agree, in case they have not already taken licensing and supervision of employment agencies and offices, to prescribe such regulations as are required to ensure the protection of women and children seeking employment in another ...

  5. Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in ...

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    The protocol covers the following: Defining the crime of trafficking in human beings; To be considered trafficking in persons, a situation must meet three conditions: act (i.e., recruitment), means (i.e., through the use of force or deception) and purpose (i.e., for the purpose of forced labour)

  6. Human trafficking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Association Against Sexual Assault: educates rape centers and domestic violence shelters throughout Texas about human trafficking. [215] Free the Captives is a Christian-based NGO that has objectives including educating the community, preventing, and intervening in the trafficking of at-risk teens, reducing the demand, and pursuing ...

  7. Trafficking of children - Wikipedia

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    Anti-trafficking legislation has been lauded as critical by the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking, because it ensures that traffickers and trafficking victims are treated accordingly: for example, "if migration laws are used to pursue traffickers, it is often the case that the victims too are prosecuted as illegal ...

  8. List of organizations that combat human trafficking - Wikipedia

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    Awareness Against Human Trafficking (HAART), a non-governmental organization fighting against human trafficking in Kenya; A Better World, based in Lacombe, Alberta, Canada [3] British Red Cross, the United Kingdom body of the worldwide neutral and impartial humanitarian network [4]

  9. Human trafficking in South America - Wikipedia

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    The commercial use of humans is mostly consisted of women and children. In 2000, human trafficking gain a lot of attention due to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act passed by the United States. While the act is a US policy, the act also consist of an anti-trafficking efforts that by the US to stop human trafficking in its southern neighbors ...