Judicial Officers on the Prevention and Suppression of Human Trafficking

In terms of a crime, human trafficking is an organized crime, but not just an organized crime. Traffickers and accomplices commit several types of crimes against a victim of trafficking: defrauding victims, physical and mental abuse, sexual abuse, ransom, deprivation of food and medical care, forced labor, sale of body organs, use in war, and even killing are carried out without hesitation. In the process of migration, organized traffickers deceive labor migrants or forcibly make them work in various forms of hard labor, without wages and at unsafe jobs. They are deceived and sent abroad in the name of foreign employment. In most cases, they are then forced to work or exploited by enslaving them. Some of the main causes of human trafficking are economic, social and cultural. Deterioration of values, opportunities for legal loopholes, ignorance of policies and procedures, poverty and lack of education and lack of institutional initiatives to prevent it and above all limited access to legal aid for remediation. Human trafficking has increased at an alarming rate around the world. Therefore, it has become the basic responsibility of all citizens to speak out against this violence.