Human trafficking, often qualified as the ‘modern day slavery’, is
caused by human rights violations embodied in poverty while it also
contributes to increased deprivation.
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Poverty is one of the main factors leading people, especially women and
children to fall preys to the traffickers. In turn, human trafficking
locks up the trafficked persons in poverty through exploitation. This
vicious circle ‘poverty – human trafficking – poverty’ denies individuals
the basic right to education and information, the right to health, the
right to decent work, the right to security and justice.
‘Poverty, Gender and Human Trafficking: Rethinking Best Practices in
Migration Management’ tries to unpack the interconnectedness between
human trafficking and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa, based on a critical
analysis of migration processes in relation to human rights abuse.
Poverty and human trafficking will only cease when they are dequately
addressed as two intermingled issues, which nurture each other and plunge
vulnerable persons into deep deprivation and exploitatation.
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