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| Human trafficking is a form of
modern-day slavery and is considered to be one of the fastest growing criminal
industries in the world. According to the United Nations, more than 12 million people are exploited worldwide for forced labor and sexual exploitation. The Polaris Project estimates that right here in America, as many as 100,000 children are victims of sex trafficking each year. As defined under U.S. federal law, victims of human trafficking include children involved in the sex trade, adults age 18 or over who are coerced or deceived into commercial sex acts, and anyone forced into different forms of "labor or services," such as domestic workers held in a home, or farm-workers forced to labor against their will. Adopted by the United Nations in 2000, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (also referred to as the Trafficking Protocol) is an international set of diplomatic guidelines established by the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. The Trafficking Protocol defines human trafficking as: 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, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs. The Trafficking Protocol has been signed by 117 countries. | Trafficking of Human Beings: A Franciscan ConcernThe Franciscan Federation recognizes that, from recruitment to exploitation, trafficked persons are deprived of their identity and reduced into a slavery-like situation. The members of the Federation are called to a more comprehensive response to human trafficking. In so doing, the members are asked to determine ways to respond to this dire situation through prayerful support, education and advocacy in order to foster the prevention of trafficking, the protection of victims, and prosecution of the perpetrators involved in human trafficking. |
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