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23 August |
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition |
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TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS AS A FORM OF
SLAVERY - DEFINITION
The Secretary of State submits the annual
"Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000: Trafficking
in Persons Report" to Congress. This report covers "severe forms of
trafficking in persons" defined as:
"(a) sex
trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or
coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained
18 years of age; or (b) the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision,
or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud
or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage,
debt bondage, or slavery."
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http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/protocoltraffic.htm
Please click website Link for full Protocol on
Trafficking text.
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Protocol
to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and
Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime
Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and
accession by General Assembly resolution 55/25
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Please click
website Link for full Protocol on Trafficking text.
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