“Human trafficking can be defined as any form of extreme exploitation of one human being by another for financial gain via commercial sex, labor, human organs, and child soldiers (Clause & Lawler, 2013).”
“Human trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery that involves the illegal trade of human beings for the purpose of some form of forced exploitation. The United Nations Office On Drugs and Crime (UNODC) defines human trafficking as any form of recruiting, transporting, transferring, harboring, or receiving a person by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, or deception” (Deshpande, N. A., & Nour, N. M. (2013). Sex Trafficking of Women and Girls. Reviews in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 6(1), e22–e27.)
There are about 800,000 people trafficked across international borders annually. Over half of these are minors!!