Authors
Toshali Pattnaik
Abstract
Human Trafficking is a threat looming over humanity. It single-handedly defeats the impetus exerted on promotion of human rights and incites its perpetrators to challenge the criminal justice mechanism of the nation. In times of conflict, the traffickers exploit the trouble-torn circumstances to latently promote their venomous activities. Out of the various kinds of trafficking, sex trafficking is one of the most evidently egregious part of the problem. The vulnerability of women and girl child makes them easy targets and the anomic situation does not allow the law enforcement mechanisms to come to their rescue. In this paper, an attempt has been made to understand the plight of women and girl child in armed conflict situations by building a simplified definition of trafficking and pin pointing the factors that contribute to this evil. Key Words: Organized Crime, Armed Conflict, Enslavement, Forced Pregnancy, Areas of Transit, Traffickers, Male-dominated Society.
Introduction
Human Trafficking is the coerced movement of people perpetrated by the host to the destination states or countries mainly for the purposes of sexual slavery, labour exploitation, marriage, begging, services as child soldiers, organ trafficking, etc. Article 3a of the anti-trafficking protocol attached to the Convention of Transnational Organized Crime describes trafficking as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring, or receipt of persons by use of threat or force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power, or of a vulnerable position 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. This description is meant to deliver a consensus and consistency around the globe on the phenomena of human trafficking.
With the advent of globalization, transnational crimes have gained impetus as the current world conditions have credited increased demand & supply. However, it would be wrong to conclude that it is only with globalization that trafficking or trading in persons became a rapidly increasing organized and multinational crime. Historically, population movements have been an enduring component of the human civilization.
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