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| Paul engaging with members of the public to raise awareness of Human Trafficking, Dublin, 18th April 2010 |
1. What is human trafficking?
The trafficking of human beings is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people for the purpose of exploitation. This includes persons forced into prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.
For children exploitation may include also, illicit international adoption, trafficking for early marriage, recruitment as child soldiers, for begging, or for sports (such as child camel jockeys or football players).
Trafficking involves a process of using illicit means such as 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.
Human trafficking is a form of slavery and is happening in Ireland today.
2. What is the difference between trafficking and smuggling?
Smuggling does not usually involve the coercion or deception of the individual to be moved. Rather it is the transportation of an individual or group of persons across borders illegally with false or stolen documents. This consent is often conditional, that the intending migrant will consent to the facilitation of the smuggler within the scope of the activity.
3. Why are we raising Awareness?
A lot of people don't have any clue about people trafficking or think of it as something that happens "far away". It is rarely an issue that people realise happens under their noses, in their community let alone think that it is something they can help stop! People cannot change what they don't know or understand.
