Profile of Reported Trafficking in Persons in Brazil Between 2009 and 2017

2020 ◽  
pp. 088626052097621
Author(s):  
Taciana Silveira Passos ◽  
Mateus Felipe Santos Santana ◽  
Nuria Cordero-Ramos ◽  
Marcos Antonio Almeida-Santos

The objective of this study was to analyze the temporal evolution of the number of human trafficking cases notified by the health system in Brazil, considering the characteristics of the population. This article carries out a descriptive study on reports of trafficking in persons in consultation with the Department of Informatics of the Unified Health System. This is a profile of reported trafficking in persons in Brazil between 2009 and 2017. Incidence rates were calculated with adjustments to the population record for each year and presented on a scale of 1:1,000,000 inhabitants. We developed a Poisson regression model to evaluate the ratio of the incidence rate. According to available data, there were 1,011 victims reported in the health system during the study period. The predominant profile of the population exposed to such violence is female, aged between 20 and 29 years, with low education and brown skin. There was a trend growth of annual reports about 10 percentage points ( p < .0001) and all regions had significantly higher incidence rates than the Southeast ( p < .0001), mainly Midwest, North and South. This means that the regions with the highest incidence rates have international land borders. Given the predominance of women in young adulthood, it is inferred that the majority were trafficked for sexual exploitation. This research represents a pioneering approach to the use and modeling of human trafficking data available in the Brazilian public health system. There is a probable underreporting of cases of trafficking in persons who transit health services. As such, identification methods for hard-to-reach populations should be integrated into future research on human trafficking to increase the likelihood of capturing victims.

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-51
Author(s):  
Ida Monika Putu Ayu Dewi

Laws are the norms that govern all human actions that can be done and should not be carried out both written and unwritten and have sanctions, so that the entry into force of these rules can be forced or coercive and binding for all the people of Indonesia. The most obvious form of manifestation of legal sanctions appear in criminal law. In criminal law there are various forms of crimes and violations, one of the crimes listed in the criminal law, namely the crime of Human Trafficking is often perpetrated against women and children. Human Trafficking is any act of trafficking offenders that contains one or more acts, the recruitment, transportation between regions and countries, alienation, departure, reception. With the threat of the use of verbal and physical abuse, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of a position of vulnerability, example when a person has no other choice, isolated, drug dependence, forest traps, and others, giving or receiving of payments or benefits women and children used for the purpose of prostitution and sexual exploitation. These crimes often involving women and children into slavery. Trafficking in persons is a modern form of human slavery and is one of the worst forms of violation of human dignity (Public Company Act No. 21 of 2007, on the Eradication of Trafficking in Persons). Crime human trafficking crime has been agreed by the international community as a form of human rights violation.  


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 184-188
Author(s):  
O S Guzeeva

Difficulties combating human trafficking due not only to the transnational character and widespread proliferation of new forms of trafficking in persons (in addition to sexual exploitation): forced labor, begging, forced surrogacy, organ and tissue transplantation, forced adoption / adoption, use in armed groups, but also the difficulties qualification of crimes under Art. 127.1 of the Criminal Code


Author(s):  
Niklas Jakobsson ◽  
Andreas Kotsadam

This article analyzes the economics of international human trafficking of women for commercial sexual exploitation. It begins with a review of the economics literature on sex trafficking, with particular emphasis on factors that determines which type of country people are trafficked to and where people are trafficked from. It then describes the datasets that have been and can be used in studying trafficking. It also considers some economics papers that work toward integrating the analysis of trafficking to include both sending and receiving countries. It suggests that the economic literature on human smuggling is particularly promising and should be incorporated by economists studying trafficking. The article concludes by highlighting gaps in the economics trafficking literature and outlining possible areas of future research.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Macias-Konstantopoulos

Trafficking in persons, or human trafficking, is the obtaining of persons by force, fraud, coercion, or other improper means, with the intention of exploiting them for financial gain. According to the US Department of State, the more prominent global forms of human trafficking include forced labor, bonded labor (or debt bondage), forced commercial sexual exploitation (or sex trafficking), involuntary domestic servitude, forced child labor, child sex trafficking, child soldiering, and organ trafficking. In the United States, the forced exploitation of persons in the labor industry (i.e., labor trafficking) and in the commercial sex industry (i.e., sex trafficking) account for the majority of human trafficking cases recognized, reported, investigated, and prosecuted. Women and girls account for 55% (11.4 million) of the global trafficked population, whereas men and boys comprise the difference. Three quarters of trafficked persons are adults, whereas children younger than 18 years represent 26% (5.5 million) of victims. Risk factors that have been associated with increased risk of human trafficking include but are not limited to a childhood history of abuse and neglect; financial insecurity; housing instability associated with homelessness, running away, or being thrown out of the home; kinship placements with distant family members, foster care, and other residential placements; intellectual and learning disabilities; identification as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ); racial and ethnic minority status; status as an immigrant, migrant worker, and refugee; and involvement in gangs or illicit substance use. Due to the inherently abusive and violent nature of this crime, human trafficking has profound negative implications for the health and well-being of affected persons. This review contains 2 figures, 4 tables and 53 references Key words: commercial sexual exploitation, debt bondage, domestic servitude, forced labor, forced substance use, HIV, modern-day slavery, posttraumatic stress disorder, trafficking in persons 


2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alese Wooditch

Anti-trafficking efforts have been adopted globally to curb human trafficking, yet many nations have failed to put initiatives into practice. As a consequence, the U.S. Department of State implemented the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report to monitor and increase efforts worldwide and serve as a guide to funding anti-trafficking programs aboard. This exploratory study investigates the efficacy of this policy initiative by means of a longitudinal assessment of the TIP Report’s tier classifications, a system that grades countries based on anti-trafficking initiatives, and determines if U.S. funded anti-trafficking initiatives internationally target those countries in need. The findings suggest that tier ranking has not improved over time, and the United States has failed to systematically allocate funds based on the recommendations of the tier classification system. Policy recommendations and implications for future research are discussed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S9-S9
Author(s):  
M. Schouler-Ocak

“Trafficking in persons,” “human trafficking,” and “modern slavery” have been used as umbrella terms for the act of recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for compelled labor or commercial sex acts through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. Trafficking in persons is an insult to human dignity and an assault on freedom, and robbing basic human rights (US Report, 2015). Reliable data on trafficking are difficult to obtain owing to its illegal nature; the range and severity of trafficking activities; and variations in how trafficking is defined. It is supposed that 49 per cent of the victims are women, 21 per cent girls, 18 per cent men and 12 per cent boys. 53 per cent were involved in sexual exploitation and 40 per cent in forced labor (UN, 2014).Research findings show that the limitations of current methodologies affect what is known about human trafficking and health. Moreover, findings demonstrate an urgent need for representative and non–purposive recruitment strategies in future investigations of trafficking and health as well as research on risk and protective factors related to human trafficking and health, intervention effectiveness, long-term health outcomes. The psychological impact of victimization may be more severe than the physical violence. Victims who have been rescued from sexual slavery, typically present with various psychological symptoms and mental illnesses, including the following: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, panic disorder, suicidal ideation, Stockholm syndrome, and substance abuse. In this talk current findings will be presented and discussed.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.


2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 356
Author(s):  
Evie Ariadne ◽  
Benazir Bona Pratamawaty ◽  
Putri Limilia

After thirteen years of Law Number 21 of 2007 concerning the Eradication of the Crime of Trafficking in Persons implemented, it still unable to release Indonesia from cases of trafficking in persons. Indonesia, is not only as primarily a source country in the trafficking process, but it is also used as a destination and transit country. And which is very terrible, all provinces (34 provinces) in Indonesia are the origin and destination of trafficking in persons and the victims are mostly experienced by women and children. The most common forms of trafficking are for forced labour and sexual exploitation as women, children and men are moved domestically and across international borders. They are exploited in the sectors of the fishing and fish processing industry, construction; plantation, oil palm plantation, mining and manufacturing. The poverty factor is considered to be the main trigger for prospective Indonesian workers. Another thing is because of natural disasters which are also vulnerable to human trafficking. In addition, endemic corruption among government officials contributes to the vulnerability of trafficking in persons, especially in the travel, hotel and labour recruitment industries. The phenomenon of globalization is one of the factors in the spread of contemporary (modern) issues, which affected to human trafficking. Advances information technology, are opportunities for the expansion of crime networks, both national and transnational (across borders). The borderless world maks cross-cultural social integration, people move around freely without any obstacles, causes various modes of crime to emerge, such as human trafficking.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fransiska Novita Eleanora ◽  
Anggreany Haryani Putri

AbstrakPerdagangan manusia semakin marak terjadi dimana-mana,  dimana penyebab utamanya adalah kemiskinan, lapangan kerja yang sempit dan banyaknya pengangguran, dan akibatnya menghalalkan  segala cara, ketidakpahaman masyarakat terhadap perdagangan manusia mengakibatkan dirinya menjadi korban, yang mengalami penderitaan fisik, psikis, bahkan trauma yang berkepanjangan, dan butuh waktu yang lama untuk melakukan pemulihan dan rehabilitasi. Hal ini diatur dalam Undang-Undang No. 21 Tahun 2007 Tentang Tindak Pidana Pemberantasan Perdagangan Orang (TPPPO), dengan ancaman pidana penjara dan sanksi yang berat, kepada siapa yang terbukti melakukan tindak pidana perdagangan manusia berupa penjualan, penculikan, bujuk rayu, kebohongan, penculikan, penipuan yang mengakibatkan tereksploitasi. Hak-hak korban mengenai kompensasi, restitusi dan rehabilitasi merupakan tanggungjawab negara sebagai bentuk perlindungannya terhadap warganya. Tujuan dari dilakukannya kegiatan pengabdian ini agar masyarakat desa sukaraja kecamatan tambelang kabupaten bekasi dapat mengantisipasi diri untuk tidak menjadi korban perdagangan manusia, karena kejahatan akan selalu ada dimana saja,  yang rentan untuk menjadi korban eksploitasi ekonomi dan seksual adalah anak dan perempuan, karena diangap lemah dan tidak mempunyai kekuatan  untuk melakukan perlawanan. Sedangkan manfaatnya adalah, jikalau sudah terjadi korban, bagaimana prosedur yang harus dilakukan, untuk mendapatkan ganti rugi yang layak, dan bagaimana juga jika pelaku berasal dari keluarga yang tidak mampu, apakah ganti rugi dapat diberikan kepada korban, serta rehabilitasi yaitu tindakan pemulihan korban, dimana rehabilitasi medis dengan pemberian obat-obatan dan rehabilitasi psikososial dengan cara mengembalikan kepada keluarganya, dan masyarakat. Masyarakat dan keluarga mau menerimanya kembali seperti sedia kala. Kata kunci :  Perdagangan, Manusia, Hak, Tindak Pidana Abstract Human trafficking is becoming increasingly widespread, where the main causes are poverty, narrow employment and unemployment, and consequently justifies any means, people's lack of human trafficking leads to victimization, suffering physical, psychological, and even prolonged psychiatric disorder, and it took a long time for recovery and rehabilitation. This is regulated in Law no. 21 Year 2007 on the Crime of Combating Trafficking in Persons (TPPPO), with the threat of imprisonment and severe penalties, to those proven to commit human trafficking in the form of sales, kidnappings, seductions, lies, kidnappings, fraud which resulted in exploitation. The rights of victims of compensation, restitution and rehabilitation are the responsibility of the state as a form of protection against its citizens. The purpose of this community service is to ensure that the villagers in the sub-district on Bekasi district of Tambelang can anticipate themselves not to become victims of trafficking, because crime will always be anywhere, vulnerable to become victims of economic and sexual exploitation are children and women, because they are considered weak and have no power to resist. While the benefits are, if there is a victim, how the procedure should be done, to get a decent compensation, and how also if the perpetrator comes from poor families, whether the compensation can be given to the victim, and rehabilitation is the recovery of the victim, where medical rehabilitation with the provision of medicines and psychosocial rehabilitation by returning to his family, and the community. People and families want to take it back as usual. Keywords: Trade, Human, Rights, Crime


2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 2091-2100
Author(s):  
Venelin Terziev ◽  
Hristo Bonev

This article outlines the three main prostitution organization types as well as hierarchical structures in criminal organizations dealing with human trafficking, prostitution and sexual exploitation. Several major categories of personages are directly involved in organized crime groups. The main indicators for assessing the prostitution prevention are defined and the principles for system management and management are justified. The three factors of prostitution management - psychological, social and financial - are outlined. An evaluation of the prostitution market has been carried out and the functions of the domestic and external markets for paid sex are described. The data provided gives us a reason to assume that the consumption of sexual services is increasing.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meghan K. Berkenstock ◽  
Andrew R. Carey

Abstract Background The development of scleritis in the setting of autoimmune conditions has been well documented. Prior series have assessed the relationship between systemic autoimmune disorders and scleritis only in patients referred for rheumatologic or ocular inflammation. This can lead to a referral bias. We reviewed all charts within the electronic medical record (EMR) of a health system for patients with systemic autoimmune and scleritis diagnoses to determine the prevalence of both and which disorders had the highest relative risk of developing scleritis. Methods The EMR was searched for scleritis and systemic inflammatory diagnoses in the past medical history and diagnosis tabs, and for associated disease specific laboratory values. The intersection of scleritis and systemic inflammatory conditions was assessed through searching both SNOMED Clinical Terminology and ICD-10 codes for diagnoses. The prevalence of each autoimmune disorder, scleritis prevalence, the percentage of patients with an autoimmune condition having scleritis, the percentage of patients with scleritis having an autoimmune condition; the relative risk (RR) of scleritis patients having a specific autoimmune disorder were calculated. Results A total of 5.9 million charts were searched with autoimmune conditions identified in 148,993 patients. The most common autoimmune conditions overall were HLA-B27-associated diseases (n = 26,680; prevalence 0.45%); rheumatoid arthritis (RA)(N = 19,923; prevalence 0.34%). Conversely, 2702 patients were identified with scleritis (prevalence 0.05%), of which 31.4% had an associated autoimmune condition. Patients with RA represented the highest percentage of patients with an autoimmune condition having scleritis. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) represented the highest the percentage of patients with scleritis having an autoimmune condition. Sjogrens was the third most common condition associated with scleritis- making up 4.5% of cases. An association with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) was seen in 0.3% of patients. Conclusions While this is the largest retrospective review examining the association between autoimmune disease and scleritis, the findings are similar to prior studies with nearly a third of scleritis patients having an underlying autoimmune diagnosis. Limitations of the study included accurate chart coding; having laboratory results within the searchable EMR. Future research is needed to delineate associations of systemic disease with the anatomic location of scleritis using EMR.


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