“the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring
or receipt of persons, by means of threat, use of force or other means
of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power
or of a position of vulnerability or of the receiving or giving of payment…
to a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.”
(Article 3 of the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress
and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing
the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime)
There are more slaves today than at any other time in human history. It
is difficult to detect and measure the exact extent of this hidden trade,
but many estimates claim that around a million persons are trafficked across
international borders each year, and many millions more are trafficked and
enslaved within their own countries.
See the links below for more information on trafficking in Tajikistan.
Trafficking
is a modern-day form of slavery. The UN defines human trafficking as:
