UN Defines Trafficking in Persons in 2000

Article 3 of the UN's Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children – complements and reinforces the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime by offering the following definition:

“Trafficking in persons shall mean the 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. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs”.