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Global estimates of human trafficking range from 600,000 to four
million victims each year with the majority being victims of sex
trafficking. This strikingly large range belies the difficulty in
gathering, defining, and accountability of sex-trafficking data.
Victims of sex trafficking may be forced into pornography,
prostitution for the military or militia, spousal prostitution, and
prostitution for the sex-tourism industry. In response to the
problem of sex trafficking, many nations have either misunderstood
the definition or failed to comprehend the magnitude that have
occurs within their borders. The United Nations has defined "human
trafficking" as "the recruitment, transfer, harboring or receipt of
persons by threat or use of force." Similarly, the U.S. State
Department's Trafficking Victims Protection Act 2000 describes
severe forms of trafficking as: (a) sex trafficking in which a
commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in
which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18
years of age; or (b) the recruitment, harboring, transportation,
provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through
the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection
to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. In Sex
Trafficking: A Global Perspective, sex trafficking is discussed in
terms of its multiple purposes and its victims. The essays provide
information to build upon the limited knowledge-base on the subject
of sex trafficking and the legislative responses to human
trafficking by the various highlighted countries. This collection
is unique because it serves the needs of those studying human
trafficking from a global perspective by targeting the issue within
every geographic region, it provides a general profile of
geographic regions in terms of demographic characteristics and
political conditions that may support the growth of sex
trafficking, and it is written on a basic information-supply-level
to provide readers with a fo
Global estimates of human trafficking range from 600,000 to four
million victims each year with the majority being victims of sex
trafficking. This strikingly large range belies the difficulty in
gathering, defining, and accountability of sex-trafficking data.
Victims of sex trafficking may be forced into pornography,
prostitution for the military or militia, spousal prostitution, and
prostitution for the sex-tourism industry. In response to the
problem of sex trafficking, many nations have either misunderstood
the definition or failed to comprehend the magnitude that have
occurs within their borders. The United Nations has defined 'human
trafficking' as 'the recruitment, transfer, harboring or receipt of
persons by threat or use of force.' Similarly, the U.S. State
Department's Trafficking Victims Protection Act 2000 describes
severe forms of trafficking as: (a) sex trafficking in which a
commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in
which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18
years of age; or (b) the recruitment, harboring, transportation,
provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through
the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection
to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. In Sex
Trafficking: A Global Perspective, sex trafficking is discussed in
terms of its multiple purposes and its victims. The essays provide
information to build upon the limited knowledge-base on the subject
of sex trafficking and the legislative responses to human
trafficking by the various highlighted countries. This collection
is unique because it serves the needs of those studying human
trafficking from a global perspective by targeting the issue within
every geographic region, it provides a general profile of
geographic regions in terms of demographic characteristics and
political conditions that may support the growth of sex
trafficking, and it is written on a basic information-supply-level
to provide readers with a foundation on human trafficking
throughout the world.
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