Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is a
complex issue. Because the
problem of human trafficking
is also connected to issues
such as immigration law,
labor laws, and the
What?
commercial sex industry,
human trafficking is often Where?
confused with these other
issues. Also, misconceptions
and misinformation about
Who?
human trafficking makes
defining human trafficking all How?
the more difficult, but all the
more important. So even if
you know some information
When?
about human trafficking, you
probably still have questions.
Questions like…
 What is Human Trafficking?
… recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring
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 payments or benefits to achieve the
consent of a person having control over another
person, for the purpose of exploitation…

Based on the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in

Persons, Especially Women. (2000)
 What is the current scenario?
• Human trafficking is:

– Modern-Day Slavery

– An underground industry that

makes information difficult.

– A $5-$9 billion dollar industry.

That makes human trafficking
the world’s third largest industry
behind drug and weapons
trading.

– A crime that creates 4 to 27

million victims per year.
 What is forced labor?
• Slavery
• Rural debt bondage
• Bonded labor
• People trafficking
• Organ trafficking
• Abusing domestic workers
• Prison labor
• Compulsory work
• Military labor
What is forced labor?
 What is sexual exploitation?
• Prostitution
• Pornography
• Bride trafficking
• Child abuse
• Exotic dancing/
stripping
 What are its causes?
• Abject poverty,
especially among
women
• A lack of reasonable
and realistic prospects
• Domestic violence
• Gender discrimination
• Lack of education
• The HIV-AIDS reality
Where is human trafficking a problem?
Where is human trafficking a problem?

• Latin America
• Western Africa
• South Asia
• East Asia & Pacific
• Eastern Africa
 Where does the figures come from?
• Only four organization have databases on
human trafficking on the globe level are as
follows;

– United States Government

– International Labor Organization (ILO)
– International Organization for Migration
(IOM)
– United Nation Organization on Drugs and
Crimes (UNODC)
 Who is involved in human trafficking?
• The recruiter gains the victim’s trust and then sells
them for labor or to a pimp. Sometimes this is a
boyfriend, a neighbor, or even a family member.
• The trafficker is the one who controls the victims.
Making the victim fearful through abuse, threats,
and lies the trafficker gains power over his/her
victim.
• The victim could be anyone.
• The consumer funds the human trafficking industry
by purchasing goods and services. Often s/he is
unaware that someone is suffering.
 How are people trafficked?
PROCESS + WAY/MEANS + GOAL

A
recruitment A threat prostitution

transportation N coercion N pornography

transferring D abduction D violence/sexual exploitation

harboring fraud forced labor

receiving deceit involuntary servitude

debt bondage (unfair

deception
wages)
abuse of power slavery
 How can you tell if a situation is
human trafficking?
• Identifying human trafficking can be difficult
for many reasons.
– Victims do not identify themselves due to fear and
shame.
– Traffickers keep their victims secluded from all
forms of contact.
– Traffickers force their victims to be happy and tell
them what to say.
– Many people do not know about human trafficking
and do not report it even though it is happening in
their community.
 When will trafficking end?
• Trafficking is an industry that relies on money. If
consumers stopped funding the human trafficking
industry by purchasing goods and services related
to human trafficking, the human trafficking industry
would shrink until human trafficking did not exist.
• Goods that are certified fair trade insure that
workers receive fair wages and working conditions.
• If consumers knew more about human trafficking,
they would think twice about where they spend
their money.
 Numbers that matter!
• 27 million – Number of people in modern-
day slavery across the world.
• 800,000 – Number of people trafficked
across international borders every year.
• 1 million – Number of children exploited by
the global commercial sex trade, every year.
• 80% – Percent of transnational victims who
are women and girls.
 Why is it lucrative?
• $ 32 billion – Total yearly profits generated
by the human trafficking industry.
• $ 15.5 billion is made in industrialized
countries.
• $ 9.7 billion in Asia
• $13,000 per year generated on average by
each “forced laborer.” This number can be
as high as $67,200 per victim per year.
 Trafficking in Pakistan
External trafficking Internal trafficking
• Child trafficking for camel • Bride price
jockeying • Bonded labor
• Girls & women for sexual • Watta satta
exploitation • Sexual abuse
• Trafficking for forced
labor bride exchange
• Organ trafficking
• Trafficking by fake
adoption of children      
 Impact of human trafficking  
• Trafficked persons are traumatized by their experiences
• Depression and suicidal thoughts are common
• The mental state of survivors include helplessness,
withdrawal, disassociation , self blame
• Trafficking survivors under go psychiatric disorders
depressive disorders and psychotic disorders
• Stigmatized and outcast and facing moral and legal
isolation
• Vulnerable to HIV /AIDS infections, drug addiction and
high risk abortions
 Linking it with Islam

“It is not (possible) for any human being

unto whom Allah had given him the
Scripture and wisdom and ‘Nabuwah’
(Prophethood) that he should afterwards
have said unto mankind: Be slaves of me
instead of Allah …”
- Quran (3:79)
 Linking it with Islam
• They (slaves or servants) are your brothers,
and Allah has put them under your command.
So the one under whose hand Allah has put his
brother, should feed him of what he eats, and
give him dresses of what he wears, and should
not ask him to do a thing beyond his capacity.
And if at all he asks him to do a hard task, he
should help him therein”
– Sahih Al-Bukhari
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