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These
pages concerning the trafficking in human beings were written
from original documents composed by the coordination of the AcSé network |
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The trafficking
in human beings with intent of sexual (prostitution, pornography
industry, etc.) and/or economic ("modern slavery",
clandestine workshops, traffic of athletes, etc.) exploitation
is not a recent phenomenon. Several international agreements repress
it: on the repression of white slavery (1910); on the trafficking of
women and children (1921); on the trafficking of adult women (1933);
that of December 2, 1949 that France did not ratify until 1960, the
New-York agreement for the repression of the trafficking in human beings
and the exploitation of prostituting others; and the additional protocol
of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Criminality
(Palermo, December 2000). However,
the new conditions of the circulation of populations, mostly due to
new international relations since the end of the 80's, saw this phenomenon
explode in the late 90's. Among others, there are tens of thousands
of women who are smuggled into Europe to become prostitutes, several
thousands in France (Central Office for the Repression of Trafficking
in Human Beings - OCRETH - estimates that approximately 18,000 people
are prostitutes in France). These women come mainly from eastern European
countries and sub-Saharan Africa. The trafficking in human beings is part of the general movement of international migration. |
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International migration
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Definition According to article 3 of the additional Protocol of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Criminality (Palermo, December 2000) that targets anticipating, repressing and punishing the trafficking in human beings, specifically of women and children, the trafficking in human beings "refers to the recruitment, transportation, transfer, housing or receiving of people, by threat or recourse to force or other forms of constraint, by kidnapping, fraud, deception, abuse of authority or of a situation of vulnerability, or by the offer or the acceptance of payments or benefits to obtain the consent of a person having authority over another with the intent of exploitation. Exploitation includes, at a minimum, the exploitation of prostituting others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or stealing body organs; […]" |
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