Challenges in Defining and Responding to People Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery

WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES IN
DEFINING AND RESPONDING TO
PEOPLE TRAFFICKING AND
MODERN DAY SLAVERY
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
As per Homeland security, Human trafficking involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to
obtain some type of labour or commercial sex act (Definition of Human trafficking, 2017). As
per Public Health England, Modern slavery is defined as the recruitment, movement, harbouring
or receiving of children, women or men through the use of force, coercion, abuse of
vulnerability, deception or other means for the purpose of exploitation (Definition of Modern
Slavery, 2017). This report highlights the different challenges which are faced at the time of
defining people trafficking and modern day slavery. This explanation highlights different type of
human trafficking and also showcases relationship shared by human trafficking and Modern day
slavery. After that report highlights the different challenges which are faced in the process of
responding to the issue of modern day slavery and Human Trafficking.
MAIN BODY
Challenges faced in regards of defining People Trafficking and Modern day Slavery
In the current scenario all the nation are finding it hard to overcome the different
challenges which are offered by different criminal crises. There are many different type of
Criminal issue which is faced by all the nation in the current scenario. There are some issue
which used to stand way strong as compare to the other and used to offer variety of the
challenges to manage. Two of most growing issue are people trafficking and modern day slavery
in current scenario.
People trafficking is the published article People Trafficking Article , 2017 define as a
trade of different human for the purpose of forced labour in the, sexual slavery or for the purpose
of commercial sexual exploitation for different trafficker or others. Author explain that this issue
is one of the global issue which is faced by all the countries in the current scenario. Author has
given this global issue a name of people smuggling, as it is the practiced which looks to
smuggled the people at the domestic level as well as at the global level. At the same time author
also highlights that there is increasing amount of the modern day slavery as well (Markovic,
Dostic and Radojkovic, 2019). The question arises at this point is what does modern day slavery
generally means? In the published paper author (Prasad, 2019) highlights that modern day
slavery generally means a exploitation of different people in the nation for the purpose of
personal as well as commercial gain. Most of the people generally uses both the term Modern
Slavery and People trafficking together as a synonymous but in real both the terms are very
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