Understanding Human Trafficking

Understanding Human Trafficking

1 Concepts and Definitions

  1. Evolution of the Concept of Human Trafficking
  2. Definition of Human Trafficking
  3. Various Stages of Trafficking
  4. Human Trafficking Smuggling and Migration
  5. Trafficking in Indian Scenario
  6. Trafficking and Prostitution

2 Types of Human Trafficking

  1. Trafficking for the Purpose of Sexual Exploitation
  2. Human Trafficking for the Purpose of Labour
  3. Human Trafficking for Medical Purposes
  4. Trafficking for Entertainment
  5. Trafficking for Sports
  6. Trafficking of Children for Engagement as Child Soldiers

3 Causes of Human Trafficking

  1. Causes of Human Trafficking: Demand Factors
  2. Causes of Human Trafficking: Supply Factors
  3. The Root Causes of Sex Trafficking in India
  4. Trafficked and Prostituted Persons in India

4 Dimension of Human Rights, Women and Child Rights

  1. Human Rights
  2. Human Trafficking and Human Rights
  3. Women’s Rights Dimension of Human Trafficking
  4. Child Rights Dimension of Human Trafficking
  5. Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking

5 Human Trafficking vs. Other Related Issues

  1. Human Trafficking and Public Health
  2. Human Trafficking and Organized Crime
  3. Human Trafficking and Corruption
  4. Technology and Human Trafficking
  5. Human Trafficking and Human Security

6 Magnitude and Extent of Trafficking

  1. Global Estimate
  2. Europe and other Regions
  3. Extent of the Problem of Trafficking in Asian Countries
  4. Indian Estimate
  5. Missing Persons and Trafficked Persons

7 Push and Pull Factors

  1. Various Factors Leading to Trafficking
  2. Push Factors
  3. Pull Factors
  4. Demand Factors

8 Source/Transit/Destination Linkages – National and International Dimensions

  1. Meaning of Trafficking Routes
  2. Countries of Origin, Transit, and Destination: A Global Analysis
  3. Destination Areas
  4. Source and Destination Areas for Trafficking in Children for Hazardous Labour
  5. Source and Destination Area for Victims Trafficked for Organ Transplantation

9 Processes Involved in Trafficking- Modus Operandi of Traffickers

  1. Modus Operandi of Traffickers
  2. Trafficking in Children for Illegal Adoption or in the Guise of Adoption
  3. Modus Operandi in Trafficking for Begging
  4. Modus Operandi in Case of Overseas or Transborder Trafficking
  5. Modus Operandi in Case of Trafficking for Organ Donation

10 Trafficking as Organised Crime

  1. Defining Organised Crime
  2. Historical Background of Organized Crime
  3. Human Trafficking and Organized Crime
  4. The Organization of Red-light Areas and Brothel System
  5. Route of Trafficking and Organised Crime: A Case of Bangladesh

11 Profiling of Victims or Survivors

  1. Profile of a Trafficking Victim
  2. Psychological Health – An Important Characteristic
  3. Short-term and Long-term Health Effects of Human Trafficking
  4. Dynamics of the Phenomenon of Trafficking
  5. Checklist for Profiling Victims

12 Identifying Victim

  1. Nature of the Crime
  2. Trafficking for Commercial Sex Work and Forced/Bonded Labour
  3. Awareness of Human Trafficking
  4. Indicators of Trafficking
  5. Tactics Used by Traffickers
  6. Promising Strategies/Practices for Identifying Victims

13 Vulnerability Factors

  1. Push and Pull Factors
  2. Interplay Between Push and Pull Factors
  3. Checklist of Causes
  4. Vulnerability Factors
  5. Trafficking Routes
  6. Gender Dimensions of Human Trafficking
  7. Vulnerabilities and Appropriate Interventions

14 Indicators of Human Trafficking

  1. Situations of Encountering Human Trafficking
  2. General Indicators of Human Trafficking
  3. Specific Indicators of Human Trafficking
  4. Validating Indicators of Human Trafficking

15 โ€˜Harmโ€™ to the Victim or Survivors

  1. Inventory of Suffering: The Victims’ Experience of Violence and Control
  2. Impact of Victimization
  3. Trauma and its Impact
  4. Challenges in Meeting the Needs of Trafficking Victims who have Experienced Traumatic Abuse
  5. Trauma Informed and Specific Services
  6. Core Components of Trauma Informed and Specific Services
  7. Recovery
  8. Understanding Victim’ /Survivor’s Needs

16 Profiling Offenders

  1. A Typical Profile
  2. Checklist for Profiling Traffickers
  3. The Participants in Trafficking
  4. Domestic Sex Traffickers – The Pimps and Madams
  5. Persons who Purchase Sex Acts
  6. Tactics used by Traffickers
  7. Trafficker’s Profile

17 Indicators of Demand

  1. Indicators of Human Trafficking
  2. Common Work and Living Conditions of the Individual(s) in Question
  3. Basic Elements and Indicators
  4. Indicators of Demand
  5. Increase in Sex Traffic due to the Impact of War, Militarism, and Extremism
  6. Increase in Trafficking during Ethnic Conflict
  7. Law and Order
  8. Increase in Trafficking during International Events
  9. Trafficking after Natural Calamities

18 Final Demand

  1. What is the Demand?
  2. The State
  3. Tradition and Culture
  4. Internet and Technologies
  5. Industries that Drive Trafficking
  6. Production of Pornography and Live Internet Sexually Explicit Performances
  7. Why the Demand?
  8. Stop the Demand
  9. State Approaches to Prostitution

19 The Economics of Human Trafficking

  1. Economic Dimension of Vulnerability and Victimization
  2. Sexual Exploitation of Trafficked Persons
  3. Income from Transnational Sex Trafficking
  4. Economic Contribution of Migrant Labour and Trafficking
  5. Economics of Child Labour
  6. Global Recession and Child Trafficking Vulnerability
  7. Understanding the Economic Factors
  8. Spread of HIV and State Costs