Human Trafficking Flashcards
What is Human Trafficking? (3)
1 - Action
2 - Means
3 - Purpose
Types of Exploitation
6
1 - Domestic/International Commercial Sex Exploitation - sex work, prostitution, production of porn
2 - Forced Labour
3 - Domestic Servitude - exploited in private, often kept captive
4 - Forced Illegal activities (petty crimes) - theft, fraud, drug dealing
5 - Forced Marriages (not arranged marriages)
6 - Organ Trafficking
s. 279.01
Trafficking in Persons
Every person who recruits, harbours, exercises control for the purpose of exploitation of that person - INDICTABLE
(3) Main Elements of s. 279.01 (Human Trafficking)
1 - Control (means)
2 - Exploitation (intent to exploit is enough)
3 - Threat to Safety - don’t need fear
s. 279.02
Receiving Financial Benefit from HT
Prohibited anyone from receiving a financial or other material benefit, knowing that it results or is derived directly or indirectly from HT
s. 279.03
Withholding or Destruction of Documents
Conceals, removes, withholds, for the purpose for trafficking that person
s. 279.04
Exploitation
everyone who makes another provide a service that IN ALL circumstances could be reasonably expected to cause that other person to believe that their safety would be threatened if they did not provide service
s. 286
Prostitution Offences
Sexual Service
DEFN
is a service that is sexual in nature and whose purpose is to sexually gratify the person who receives it
Victim Vulnerabilities
3
1 - Systematic Factors - poverty, unemployment
2 - Individual factors - trauma, fear, addictions, MH
3 - Groups at higher risk - youth, females, LGBTQ