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assisting in the realization of civil and social rights
How to understand that you or your acquaintance needs help: a checklist for victims of labor and sexual slavery
Exploitation is the unlawful coercion of a person to work or provide services. A person cannot refuse to work or provide services for reasons beyond their control, so they are forced to work against their will.
Anyone, regardless of gender or age, can become a victim of labor or sexual exploitation. It is important to remember that, regardless of the circumstances, these types of exploitation are forms of modern slavery. Human trafficking is illegal, and its victims need help. To better understand what constitutes labor and sexual slavery, we have prepared special checklists. They allow you to familiarize yourself with the signs of human trafficking victims and the circumstances that indicate that a person is in slavery.
Labor exploitation
Labor exploitation refers to the coercion to perform exhausting labor without pay and without the possibility of quitting.
Signs that a person has become a victim of labor exploitation:
● Work conditions are inhumane, dangerous to health or even life. For example, safety and labor regulations are not followed, workers are forced to live in overcrowded places, have irregular working hours, are forced to engage in heavy physical labor without the right to sick leave or days off, etc.
● The employer uses your vulnerable state, threatens with deportation, physical or sexual violence, physical harm.
● The employer manipulates and blackmails you if you want to quit.
● The employer does not pay wages and/or gets you into a "debt trap".
● The employer has taken possession of your passport and/or other documents and refuses to return them.
● You are forbidden to move freely, communicate with relatives and other people, with employees of government services who could help you.
● You are under constant surveillance and forced to comply with absurd demands, and you are punished for disobedience.
Sexual exploitation
Sexual exploitation involves being forced into prostitution (commercial sex) and filming in pornography.
Signs that a person has become a victim of sexual exploitation:
● You want to be free from exploitation, but you cannot leave for fear for your life, the lives of your loved ones, etc. You are threatened with violence or physical harm, manipulated, suppressed, and blackmailed.
● You initially agreed to another job (chat administrator, masseuse, dancer, etc.), but ended up in sexual exploitation.
● You are completely dependent on the person who has involved you in sexual exploitation. They have complete control over your life, finances, movements, etc., which is why you cannot escape.
● You are forced to use drugs and/or alcohol.
● You live in the same place where you are sexually exploited, and you do not have the opportunity to move around without someone watching you.
● The person who has involved you in prostitution/pornography is drawing you into a debt relationship and claims that you owe a "debt" and only after repaying it will you be allowed to leave.
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