How our culture normalises human trafficking
Thursday, April 18, 2019
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Poverty and hardships often drive cultural human trafficking PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Technically, human trafficking is defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receiving of another person by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion.
It also involves abduction, use of fraud or deception, abuse of power or abuse of a position of vulnerability. It can include 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 of that person.
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