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WHAT IS TRAFFICKING?

The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbor or receipt of a person through the use of fraud, force, coercion, abuse of authority, or other means. Trafficking does not require the use of false documents or movement across a national border, many people are trafficked within a country and others cross borders with legitimate documents and visas but are still victims of traffickers.

UN Trafficking Protocol definition: 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. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal or organs.
  

WHAT IS SMUGGLING?

·The movement of a person across a national border without proper documents, sometimes under dangerous conditions for money. A smuggler usually delivers the person to the destination (often using dangerous means), is paid and then leaves. The smuggled person keeps her/his documents and moves freely in the destination country. The smuggled person will have to work illegally, which means s/he will certainly be exploited in the work place (for example, be paid less than documented migrants) but still the undocumented migrant is paid something for the labour. S/he can also change jobs if the situation becomes too difficult or exploitative.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERNENCE BETWEEN ADULT TRAFFICKING AND CHILD TRAFFICKING?

While adults can decide to migrate and to work abroad with or without documents, children cannot consent to migrate on their own or to travel to another country on their own. Parents and adults also do not have the right to send their children abroad to work. Thus, when minor children are traveling abroad without a parent or legal guardian for the purpose of working in any industry, there is no difference between trafficking and smuggling. When children are sent from one region of the country to another to work, they are also victims of trafficking. No force or coercion is necessary.