Of Policies and Law. Are we losing the war on human trafficking?

Writes Demeter and Althea, LUDCI.eu Editorial Team

Human trafficking also known as modern-day slavery is a horrific crime that strips basic human rights and freedom from approximately 40.3 million victims worldwide. This number includes child trafficking.

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Traditional approaches to preventing trafficking of humans, assisting victims and bringing criminals to justice have had but a small impact on the global phenomenon; a less than justifiable number to the millions of victims who are left with life-long mental and physical scars, diseases and addiction from the journey into ‘hell on earth’.

In order to combat human trafficking internationally, The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (the Protocol) established the first common international definition of "trafficking in persons".

This, it concludes, is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by improper means (such as force, abduction, fraud, or coercion) for an improper purpose including forced labor or sexual explo...