Challenges in Defining & Responding to People Trafficking & Slavery

This report delves into the multifaceted challenges encountered in defining and combating people trafficking and modern-day slavery. It begins by clarifying the distinct yet interconnected nature of these issues, highlighting the use of force, fraud, and coercion. The report explores the difficulties in establishing clear definitions, the role of globalization, and the impact of poverty and corruption. It examines the various forms of trafficking, including child trafficking, sex trafficking, forced marriage, and labor exploitation. Furthermore, the report analyzes responses from various countries, such as India, Russia, and China, while also addressing the obstacles faced in implementing effective anti-trafficking measures, including corruption and inadequate legal frameworks. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of comprehensive strategies to protect human rights and combat these pervasive global issues.

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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different from each other. As People trafficking is generally define as a movement or smuggling
of people of one nation to another nation, it can be crossing of the international border or
domestic border in the nation. At the same time Modern day slavery is generally define as a
exploitation of the different human being once they are bring to the other part by the way of
smuggling. So classifying both as synonym is not right but at the same time it can be said that
people trafficking and modern day slavery used to work hand by hand. Main reason behind
increasing amount of People trafficking is positively related with increasing impact of modern
day slavery in different nation.
In the article published People Trafficking Article 2, 2017 author has highlighted that
International Labour (ILO) has identified that the biggest reason which used to drive the different
trafficor toward people trafficking is it is very profitable in the long run, data which was
published help in explaining that in the year 2014 forced labour a part of People trafficking alone
has able to generate the profit of $150 million. Report also highlight that almost 21 million
victim throughout the world was trapped as a victim of modern day slavery. Out of which 68
percent were exploited labour, 22 percent were sexually exploited and 10 percent were imposed
factor labour. Challenges which was faced by the nation due to the same is that they are not able
to safeguard the right of the people in the nation. As all the citizen is having a right to safety,
they having right to be secure with different criminal activity which used to take place in the
nation and it is the core responsibility of different nation to safeguard the different right of their
nations citizen
Another challenge which is faced by the different nation in the current scenario is corrupt
and inadequate authority in the nation to stop the different activity against the people trafficking .
As it has been highlighted that all the nation used to govern the variety of the activity in the
nation in to stop transaction of different human in or out of the nation but the biggest challenge
which is faced by them is that Traffacor generally used to make a good sort of relationship with
the different senior authority. In return of same Corrupt authority used to provide a good sort of
the help to them in context of carrying out different activity related to these global issue which is
generally prevailing in the market.
Another challenge which has been identified by article People Trafficking Article 3. 2017 is that
not able to provide a structural life to all the human being in the nation, this eventually used to
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drive the different individual to move in another nation in the search of good life, this is where
different traffacor used to take advantage of human need. One of the biggest challenge for the
nation is increase amount of the poverty which is seen by variety of the lower caste citizen in the
nation. Not only poverty, lack of education and economic problem are another some of the issue
which used to stand as a big challenge, as the report highlights that almost all the individual who
are smuggled are finding it hard to carry out their life. So the biggest challenge in front of the
nation is to provide the structured life to all the individual of the nation. Another challenge which
was identified by the article was globalization, as the article used to define that increase amount
of the globalization has also increased the amount of the people trafficking and modern day
slavery. As author passed on the opinion that opening the boarder for the purpose of the
transaction of different goods in the nation has eventually open the variety of the route for the
individual who are up for performing the different activity related to the people trafficking and
modern day slavery. The article highlights that increase amount of the Globalization has helped
the company in seeing enhanced quality of the technology which are used by the different
traffacor in the market to improve the efficiency of different activity in context of people
trafficking. So it can be said that the globalization is one of the challenges which is impacting
people trafficking and modern day slavery.
There are many different type of people trafficking which generally used to take place at
the global in the article Ventrella, (2016) author explain the same. Author starts the trafficking
by highlighting the first form is Trafficking of children; these certainly involved trafficking of
children for the purpose of the child labour or exploitation of children toward the sex. Another
trafficking which was highlighted was Sex trafficking, it is one of the most trending trafficking
as in this trafficking people are generally exploited for the purpose of the sex purpose. Forced
Marriage, is another type of the trafficking in which the different people are generally exploited
in the nation for the purpose of forced marriage in the nation. Labour trafficking, it is another
important trafficking , In this trafficking generally traffacor used to recruit the different labour
from the country who are not having that sound lifestyle and looks to move them to the nation
where there is good sort of the demand of the different labour. This is one of the prominent
trafficking which used to create the variety of the issue for the different nation. Another type of
trafficking which was define was the trafficking for organ trade, generally this type of trafficking
was performed in the nation to exploit the different organ of the individual in the market.
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Responses for different countries toward human trafficking and modern day slavery and
different challenges which is faced by them in that process
Before understanding the different responses of the different nation toward the global
issue which is being faced by all the nation in the current scenario it is very much important to
understanding the nation which are facing this issue more adversely. Some countries of Asia are
the one who is facing this type of the issue and also used to respond the same with different way
but used to see variety of the challenges in it. Pakistan, Thailand, China, India, and Bangladesh
are some of the country where there is high amount of human trafficking which used to take
place (Meshelemiah and Lynch, 2019). Starting from the India, it has been find out that Indian
cabinet in the year 2018 has cleared a long awaited trafficking bill in the organization, this used
to proposed that the individual who will be found involve in any such type of the activity will be
sent to the prison for the 10 coming year. A biggest challenge in this response is that it will not
help the nation in finding out the different activity which are being performed in context of
Human trafficking in the nation. It will only help the nation in terrifying the different consumer
about the different circumstances of the same in the organization. Another challenge which is
being faced by India is the presence of good amount of corruption in the nation, as it has been
identified that it get difficult for the country in stopping this sort of the issue in market.
At the same time Russia has pass on the Article 127 in the nation to prohibit trafficking
as well as commercial sex exploitation in context of the forced labour. Under this article Russian
legislation has divided the different punishment related to this crime into different category and
into different year imprisonment for the nation. This has helped the company in reducing the
amount of the Human trafficking cases in the nation. There was many different type of the issue
which were also faced by nation in reducing the amount of human trafficking, one of the
challenge was to recruit the best authority who can reduce the impact of this type of the issue in
the nation. As some of the media report in the past has highlighted that High level ministry of
Internal Affair was also involved in the forced labour trafficking in the nation, also one of the
police commissioner was also found guilty for the same and was sent to eight year imprisonment
by the government of the nation. This was one of the biggest challenges which was faced by the
nation in long run.
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There are many different type of Laws which has been also introduce by the nation like
China, they have not only introduce the laws by their own in the nation but they have also forced
some of the parties like corporation and central government to also take variety of different type
of the action in the market to reduce the amount of the Human trafficking in the nation as China
was seeing good number of cases as number of population is very high in the China as compare
to the other nation as a whole. A law was introduced in the china and on the basis of the same
China has arrested 19 out of the 20 wanted traffickers. At the same time China has also promoted
different organization to make the variety of the step to response to this global issue very easily
at the global level. As result it has find out that almost all the organization started supporting the
different campaign in the market such as save the children or mandatory education to all the
children in the nation. This has eventually helped the different cities in the nation in improving
the level of life of different individual in the nation; this has eventually helped the nation in
reducing the amount of Human trafficking in the nation. Looking at the challenges it was find
out that the biggest challenge which was seen by the nation was to manage that big number of
the consumer in the market, as number of china population is way higher than many others
different nation (Wintour, 2018).
UK at the same time used to has less number of Human trafficking cases as compare to
the other nation at the global level, UK has also launched variety of the laws in nation to reduce
the amount of the cases in regards. This has helped the nation in reducing good impact of Human
trafficking in the nation. At the same time the nation used to faced the variety of the issue related
to the same in the market, as it has been identified that there is law which used to reduce the
amount of human trafficking in the nation but this sort of the Law in the nation used to not define
the specific amount of the punishment and also the punishment are not that strict to reduce the
impact of Human trafficking in the nation. There are four different action which was also
introduced in the market to reduce the impact of the same in the nation, international action to
stop the trafficking, stronger border at home to stop the victim, also together law enforcement
action to tackle the criminal gangs that orchestrate the crime in the nation (Zimmerman and Kiss,
2017). It has been also find out that there is good amount of demand among different human to
move to UK in the search of good lifestyle, as a result UK also used to see good amount of
Human trafficking in the nation.
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CONCLUSION
After going through the above report it has been concluded that Human trafficking is the act
of transportation of human being in the illegal form at the same time modern day slavery is the
exploitation of different consumer in the nation. At the same time there are many different
challenges which are being faced by nation in reducing the same. After that the report concludes
the variety of the responses which are given by different nation to reduce the impact of human
trafficking and modern day slavery. Also concludes the variety of the challenges which is being
faced by different nation.
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REFERENCES
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