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How to understand that you or your acquaintance needs help: a checklist for victims of labor and sexual slavery
28.03.2024
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:
? The working conditions are inhumane, dangerous to health or even life. For example, safety precautions and labor and rest rules are not observed, workers are forced to live in overcrowded places, have irregular working hours, are forced to engage in hard physical labor without the right to sick leave and 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 drags you into a "debt trap".
? The employer has taken possession of your passport and/or other documents and refuses to return them.
? You are prohibited from moving freely, communicating with relatives and other people, and with employees of public 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 refers to 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.
? Initially, you agreed to another job (chat administrator, masseuse, dancer, etc.), but ended up in sexual exploitation.
? You are completely dependent on the person who 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 involved you in prostitution/pornography entangles you in a debt relationship and claims that you must pay off the "debt" before you are allowed to leave.
If you have questions about safe migration and employment, providing assistance to victims of human trafficking and their relatives, as well as children's safety on the internet, use the information posted on our website!
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