SEX TRAFFICKING

 Trafficking in person is define as “ the recruitment, trasnportation, transfer,

harbouring or receipt of persons, 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 payment or benefits
to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the
purpose of exploitation.

 In discourse on human trafficking is frequent categorized as either sex trafficking

or labour trafficking. The most obvious justification for distinguishing that sex
trafficking involves a violation of the victim ‘s bodily integrity. However, women
are trafficked for other forms of labour such as domestic work, also experience
forms of sexual abuse and violence.

 The Western media has brought vital attention to sex trafficking but in doing so it
has perpetuated a sensationalized depiction of female victims by narrowing the
focus to sexual exploitation.

 Victims of trafficking often fail to acknowledge the underlying socioeconomics

factors that make people vulnerable to it. Victims of trafficking suffer various
forms of coercion, both physical and psychological to force them to perform
degrading tasks againts their will.

HUMAN RIGHTS APPROACH

 A Human rights approach to trafficking means putting victims at the centre of

anti trafficking policies by protection of their rights. By taking such an approach,
whether the person is traffickied for sexwork or another from of forced labour
become irrelevant, because the victim’rights are protected regardless of why they
have been trafficked.

 Human rights approach ensuring equal protection to all victims of trafficking.

REFLECTION
 In the recent years, due to great international pressure have sought to develop
strategies to combat the sex trafficking. The main strategy on the part of
governments has been created and reinforced appropriate legislation
 Government should take consideration about few programmes that enable
trafficked women to make real choices about their future.
 A progressive attitude only can strengthens collective awareness of these women
and enables them to escape the subhuman conditions in which they find
themselve, by constructing their self. This is the greatest challenge which sex
trafficking presents to law.

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