ATS3462 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Contemporary Slavery, Tute, Sex Tourism
28 May 2018
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Week 3 -Human trafficking
Lecture
• Human trafficking = modern day slavery
• A result of globalisation
• Reduce humans to commodities to be traded or exploited for personal gain
• Definition: the recruitment, transportation or transfer of a person by means of threat, use of
force, coercion, fraud, deception, trade, or abuse of vulnerability to achieve control over
another person for the purpose of exploitation.
• Definition by the UN: … the reruitet, trasportatio, trasfer, harourig or reeipt of persos,
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 of the removal of organs.
o Three parts to the definition:
▪ Criminal acts
▪ Means used to commit these acts
▪ Goals
o At least one is required before a crime can be defined as human trafficking
• Trafficking can occur in any industry that has a demand for cheap labour, not just sex work
o Construction, brick making, domestic, food services industries, on farms and on
fishing boats, Prostitution, sex tourism, child soldiering, forced begging, and organ
harvesting
• The four Ps:
o Prevention
o Prosecution (of traffickers)
o Protection (of victims)
o Partnerships (between government and non-government organisations and private
industry)
Tute Questions
1. Is human trafficking a transnational crime?
Yes, when it crosses international borders
Not necessarily transnational, but mostly is
2. What are the elements that make up the UN definition of HT?
Criminal act, means, goals
3. What is the difference between HT and people smuggling
PS- usually refugees, and they make the final decision, escaping danger
-bypassing visa system (movement illegal)
HT- are people who are coerced, entering danger
-involves exploitation
4. What is eat the push pull fators i eplaiig the root causes of trafficking
Push: economic, political and social
-Why they want to leave the country
Pull: demand for manual labour and paid sex
-why people are enticed into trafficking conditions/vulnerable to exploitation
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