Human Trafficking Violation Against Humanity

Human Trafficking Violation Against Humanity

Human Trafficking has been considered to be a violation against humanity around 200 years ago and today, it is seen as an instance of modern-day slavery. This slavery, called human trafficking, is a hidden evil that affects everyone, but especially women and children.

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Each year, millions of men, women and children are victimized and exploited for labour and sexual purposes. Often, while hoping for a better future for themselves and their families they are lured by false promises into a life of slavery and deprivation. Trafficking in person is viewed by some authors as a criminal activity by transnational organized groups (Bruckert and Colette, 2002).

Others consider it as a public health concern or a human rights issue within the framework of modern day slavery or forced labour (Ruggiero, 1997, ILO, 2005, Bales, 2005,). Although being an international matter, ‘Trafficking in Persons’ is first and foremost, a human rights issue that breaches the fundamental rights of the individual (New York Times, 2000).

Therefore, it has emerged in the national and international discourse, both as a human rights violation and as a serious threat to security and accordingly, it is imperative that law enforcement bodies and justice seekers be constantly assessed so as to deploy effective measures and actions to combat and re-abolish slavery which today appears in the form of human trafficking across the globe.

According to Tom Obokata, “it has increasingly been recognized that trafficking can rank among the ‘most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole’ or ‘delicta juris gentium’.” The international community has recognised trafficking as a crime against humanity amid the various categories of crimes (Obokata, 2005).

Re Prosecutor v. Kunarac , it was held by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) that enslavement as a crime against humanity included trafficking of human beings. This is a flourishing international trade whereby scrupulous criminals generate billions of dollars to the detriment of millions of innocent victims who are robbed of their rights, self-respect, freedom and so much more.

It can be said that a large majority of countries in the world are affected by this scourge. These countries may participate in the human trafficking in such a way that they give origin, or assist in the transit or are even the final destination of the trafficking (Polaris Project, 2009).

Annually around 600,000 to 800,000 people are traded across transnational borders while millions are enslaved in their own countries. The annual total revenue estimated to be derived from trafficking in persons is between $5 billion and $9 billion (UNECE, 2004).

Over the past decade, human trafficking with a global annual market of about $ 42.5 billion has reached the epidemic point (Council of Europe, [COE] 2009).

It is estimated that around 12.3 million adults and children are held in forced and bonded labour, as well as ‘commercial sexual servitude’ at any given time (United States Department of States, [US] 2009, pg 8). Out of th…………………………