| dc.description.abstract | Despite the fact that the United Nations abolished slave trade more than 60 years ago, 1 millions of human beings continue to be enslaved through trafficking. Prior to the coming into force of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children.i hereinafter referred to as the Palermo Protocol, there lacked international consensus on the definition of the crime of trafficking. Article 3 of the Palermo Protocol defmes it as: (a) ... 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 of organs; (b) The consent of a victim of trafficking in persons to the intended exploitation set forth in subparagraph (a) of this article shall be irrelevant where any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) have been used; (c) The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation shall be considered 'trafficking in persons' even if this does not involve any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) of this article; (d) 'Child' shall mean any person under eighteen years of age | |
