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HUMAN TRAFFICKING. ESSENTIAL OBJECTIVE:. To improve our English and our presentation skills, but…. GENERAL OBJECTIVES. To raise your awareness of the scope of the problem To analyse the consequences of the problem, for the victims and also for their friends and family.
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ESSENTIAL OBJECTIVE: • To improve our English and our presentation skills, but…
GENERAL OBJECTIVES • To raise your awareness of the scope of the problem • To analyse the consequences of the problem, for the victims and also for their friends and family.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING (HT)DEFINITION • '“Trafficking in persons” shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring 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. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs. (United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime)
THREE TIPES OF EXPLOITATION • SEXUAL (talina/ sisters) • FORCED LABOUR (fabia/ Yvo) • CHILDREN (Phillipines)
TALINA’S and SISTERS STORIES • What kind of people could be kidnapped by this kind of mafia?
TALINA’S and SISTERS STORIES • What kind of people will be the future “clients” of Talina or the sisters?
HUMAN TRAFFIKING • Is it possible that you fall in this situation?
FORCED LABOUR • Main sectors: agriculture – construction – domestic world and hospitality
Group at risk : migrant workers • Factors: • 1.- Isolation- lack of knowledge of rights & mulltiple dependency of migrant workers • 2.- the restrictive nature & complexity of the labour and immigration regulations in destination countries • 3.-threat of violence (victim and his family) • 4.- the increasing demand of cheap labour
CAUSES OF HT POVERTY AND EXCLUSION ORGANIZEDCRIME HT WAR DEMAND
CONSEQUENCES OF HT • POLITICAL - Corruption governments - Organized crime groups - Citizens don’t trust their governments
CONSEQUENCES OF HT • ECONOMIC - Objective of the mafias – to make money - Profits obtained from HT are reinvested into legal economy.- Unfair competition Failures in the labour market -Forced labour- (Yvo case)
CONSEQUENCES OF HT • SOCIAL: - Huge impact on the victims & families - Forming people into prostitution - Exploiting labour force Factors against the human rights.
CONSEQUENCES OF HT • HUMAN : - Physical, health problems, including death - Mental health problems including suicides, depression, anxiety, flasbacks - Sexuals infections, HIV - Drug or alcohol addiction
CONCLUSIONS • HT is a huge problem expanded around the whole world • It’s the modern equivalent of slavery • Takes place within and across borders
“Trafficking in human beings constitutes a violation of human rights and an offence to the dignity and the integrity of the human being” • “Trafficking in humans beings may result in slavery for victims” (Council of Europe Convention on Action againstTrafficking in Human Being of 2005)