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Counter-trafficking in persons
Human trafficking is a global problem which affects lives of millions of people in almost every country of the world. It deprives human dignity and entrenches human rights. Being one of the most ignominious crimes human trafficking deceives people and makes them victims of sexual or labor abuse.
According to International Labour Organization there are 20.9 million people, mainly women, including 5.5 million children, who do forced labor. Part of this amount of people is lead into prostitution. On the whole criminals make more than 25 million euro from human trafficking annually, according to the United Nations Organization this sum is about 30 million annually. 161 countries from 192 countries of the world are involved into human trafficking.
According to UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime:
(a) "Trafficking in persons" shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs;
(b) The consent of a victim of trafficking in persons to the intended exploitation set forth in subparagraph (a) of this article shall be irrelevant where any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) have been used;
(c) The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation shall be considered "trafficking in persons" even if this does not involve any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) of this article;
(d) "Child" shall mean any person under eighteen years of age.
Identifying the human trafficking victim “Business Women Club” personnel refers to the above mentioned Protocol. It was adopted by General Assembly resolution 55/25 of 15 November 2000, was opened for signature till 12 December, and was ratified on 25 December, 2003.
It came into operation for Belarus after signing the law of the Republic of Belarus № 197-3 of 3 May, 2003 “About ratification of protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.
