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31/05/2013 | Document
Violence

Understanding and addressing violence against women. Human trafficking

Human trafficking has received increasing global attention over the past decade. Initially, trafficking of women and girls for forced sex work and, to a lesser extent, domestic servitude, were the sole focus of advocacy and assistance. Today, there is recognition that women, children and men are trafficked into many different forms of labour, and for sexual exploitation.
Portada Comprender y abordar la violencia contra las mujeres. Trata de personas

The most widely cited definition of human trafficking is in the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons:

"The recruitment, transportation, 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 payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation".

Author

  • Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS)
  • Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS)

UN Symbol

NLM: WA309