Human trafficking is defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of humans for the purpose of exploitation through force, fraud, or coercion. It is the third largest international crime generating billions of dollars in profit each year. Victims are often lured with false promises of good jobs and better lives, and then forced into labor or commercial sex against their will. Common forms of human trafficking include sex trafficking, labor trafficking, and organ harvesting. Poverty, lack of economic opportunities, and demand for cheap labor or commercial sex are key drivers. The top countries for human trafficking globally are Bangladesh, Brazil, Haiti, Pakistan, India, and Nepal. In India, trafficking is prevalent with victims sourced from

1. HUMAN TRAFFICKING
PRESENTED BY:
Priyankush Salouria
GCS/SL/14/1012
SUBMITTED TO:
Dr. JapPreet Kaur
Bhangu

2. CONTENTS
Definition
Introduction
How it works?
Types of human trafficking
Causes
How Does it Sometimes Happen?
How we help to prevent HT
Top 10 Countries Infamous for Human Trafficking
Status of Human Trafficking in India
Conclusion

3. INTRODUCTION
 Human trafficking is a group of crimes involving the exploitation of men,
women and children for financial gains which is violation of fundamental
human rights
 Human trafficking is the 3rd largest international crime
 Over one million people trafficked annually
 Millions of men, women and children are victims of human trafficking
 Human trafficking is a part of the larger problem of slavery
 human trafficking is when people are transported, by force or deception,
to become enslaved
 Traffickers use blackmail, abuse, and threats to force victims to comply
with their wishes in the destination country
 Usually caused by poverty/lack of economic opportunities, especially for
women and children, and a demand for certain services in the destination
country

4. DEFINITION
Human trafficking is a process of people being recruited from
their community and country of origin and transported to the
destination where they are being exploited for purposes of
forced labor, prostitution, domestic servitude, Organ
harvesting and other forms of exploitation

5. How it works?
 The Act (What is done)
Recruitment, transportation, transfer or receipt of persons
 The Means (How it is done)
Threat or use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or vulnerability, or giving payments or
benefits to a person in control of the victim
 The Purpose (Why it is done)
For the purpose of exploitation, which includes exploiting the prostitution of others, sexual exploitation, forced labor,
slavery or similar practices and the removal of organs.
To ascertain whether a particular circumstance constitutes trafficking in persons, consider the definition of trafficking
in the Trafficking in Persons Protocol and the constituent elements of the offense, as defined by relevant domestic
legislation.

6. TYPES OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
There are three types of human trafficking:
 Labor Trafficking
 Sex Trafficking
 Organs Harvesting

7. HOW DOES IT SOMETIMES HAPPEN?
Poor families sell children
Children work to buy freedom
Poor, desperate women/men Promised jobs
Bonded into a debt they have no chance of
repaying
Traffickers seek mainly younger girls

8. CAUSES OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Unemployment
Poverty
Absence of a social safety
Political instability
Status of violence against women & children
The low risk, high-profit

9. How you can help to prevent Human
trafficking?
Call your local police department
Report suspected trafficking crimes
Get help by calling the national 24/7 toll-free Human
Trafficking Resource Center at 1-888-373-7888.
Call on 24x7 Helpline No. 011 – 24368638 of CBI for
reporting "Illegal Human Trafficking especially
Trafficking of Children & Women"

10. TOP 10 COUNTRIES INFAMOUS FOR HUMAN
TRAFFICKING
POSITION COUNTRY
10 CHINA
9 GHANA
8 UGANDA
7 NEPAL
6 SRI LANKA
5 INDIA
4 PAKISTAN
3 HAITI
2 BRAZIL
1 BANGLADESH

11. STATUS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN INDIA
 Nepali children are also trafficked to India for forced labor
 India is also a destination for women and girls from Nepal and
Bangladesh trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual
exploitation
Indian women are trafficked to the Middle East for commercial
sexual exploitation.
 In India, there is a large number of children trafficked for various
reasons such as labor, begging, and sexual exploitation
Debt bondage in India was legally abolished in 1976 but it
remains prevalent , Mostly in Agricultural areas.
India police have arrested the kingpin of a trafficking racket who
sold hundreds of poor tribal girls for domestic slavery in the
country's capital.

12. CONCLUSION
Slavery and Human Trafficking happens in nearly
every country in the world, developing or
developed countries. We are now living in a world
where Human Trafficking is the fastest growing
criminal enterprise. 75% Of Human Trafficking is for
sexual exploitation and are female. And over 50%
of all Human Trafficking victims are children. These
individuals are forced to work every single day
without pay, under threat of violence, and they’re
unable to walk away. Stand against Human
Trafficking before its too late.

14. THANK YOU