scholarly journals Socio-criminological and legal nature of trafficking in human beings (the slave trade, the slave trade)

2020 ◽  
Vol - (1) ◽  
pp. 24-31
Author(s):  
А.V. Serebrennikova ◽  
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А.V. Staroverov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Trafficking In Persons ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
The World ◽  
Trafficking In Human Beings ◽  
Modern Form

Human trafficking as a social phenomenon originated in the period of antiquity, the greatest spread reached in the early middle ages. Until the mid-19th century in many countries of the world, and in some countries until the mid-20th century, it was carried out quite legally. Modern trafficking in human beings, committed in the form of the purchase and sale of a person, his recruitment, transportation and concealment, is a criminal act, so it is carried out in disguise or completely hidden. Modern human trafficking dates back to ancient forms of the slave trade, which allows it to be defined as a modern form of slavery. Since the object of trafficking is currently a free person, it would be wrong to replace the terms trafficking in persons with slave trade, despite the fact that they are used as equivalent in international legal instruments.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Human Rights Violations and Human Trafficking

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
Julia Muraszkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Crime Victims ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
The World ◽  
Trafficking In Human Beings ◽  
The Relationship

Human trafficking is lucrative crime, often trans border, affecting every country in the world. In the course of this crime victims are subjected heinous experiences. Consequently the crime has been described as a grave violation of human rights. However, there are those that question the legal nature of trafficking in human beings, and whether it really is a violation of human rights. This article explores the relationship between human trafficking and human rights, and analyses what are the impacts of that relationship on State’s duties to fight the crime.

Opinion Piece – Terrorism, Human Trafficking and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: Examining the Nexus

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-133
Author(s):  
Christiana Ejura Attah
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Enabling Environment ◽  
Opinion Piece ◽  
The World ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
Trafficking In Human Beings

Terrorism, a global phenomenon afflicting virtually all continents in the world, has heightened trafficking in human beings. The same applies to the upsurge in sexual violence, especially in places with noticeable terrorist activities or experiencing other forms of conflict. The need to determine whether this upsurge has any connection with terrorism or the activities of terrorist groups has not attracted the requisite scholarly interest. Terrorist organisations rely on human trafficking for a variety of reasons, while the trafficked victims are exposed to sexual violence at the hands of members of these organisations. It raises a very important question: Is there a connection between terrorism, human trafficking and sexual violence in areas prone to conflict? This opinion piece examined the nexus between terrorism, human trafficking and conflict-related sexual violence and concludes that a strong nexus exists between terrorism, human trafficking and conflict-related sexual violence as terrorism and the activities of terror groups provide the enabling environment for human trafficking and sexual violence to thrive. Furthermore, human trafficking and conflictrelated sexual violence are interconnected as the former supplies the persons who end up as victims of the latter.

scholarly journals Human trafficking as a crime against humanity

Legal Ukraine ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 62-70
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
International Criminal Court ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
European Court ◽  
The World ◽  
Trafficking In Human Beings ◽  
Institutional Mechanism

The article emphasizes that human trafficking is a modern form of slavery and a crime against humanity. The causes of the international crime are unresolved migration problem in the world, armed conflicts, insufficient efforts of states to combat human trafficking, inefficiency political and economic transformations in the state, corruption officials, declarative social policy and numerous other reasons. UN Office on Drug and Crime reports an increase in the number of recorded cases of human trafficking in the world. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, states have closed their borders, but this is not the way out. After the resumption of international connections, a new wave of migration flows is expected. As a result, the level of human trafficking crime will increase. The institutional mechanism of the UN, the Council of Europe and the role International Criminal Court in the field of combating the crime of trafficking people were analyzed. The scale and effectiveness of certain international legal acts are determined. The main disadvantage is their recommendatory nature. Combating against transnational crime trafficking in human beings requires to use not only national and regional judicial system, but also international bodies. Particular attention was paid on the importance of the International Criminal Court and the European Court of Human Rights in investigating the crime of trafficking in human beings. The issue of jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court on human trafficking crimes was covered. Creating a new mechanism to combat human trafficking is not an appropriate way. We emphasized the importance of improving the work of existing institutions. Key words: crime against humanity, human trafficking, institutional mechanism, migration, International Criminal Court, Rome Statute, European Court of Human Rights.

A neverending stream : human trafficking in Medieval Europe

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Christopher Paolella
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Labor Demand ◽  
Sex Industry ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Long Distance

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study focuses on human trafficking patterns from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Era. I argue that while slavery, as a means of compelling agricultural labor, disappeared across much of Western Europe by the middle of the twelfth century, the commercial sex industry grew. As slavery died out, the slave trade withered across Western Europe and gradually reoriented itself around the Mediterranean basin. Yet, human trafficking networks remained in Western Europe, if in attenuated form. They continued to supply a smaller, but no less persistent, labor demand that was now fueled by brothels and prostitution rings instead of agriculture. I argue further that the experiences of women link the sex trade and the slave trade, and that twelfth-century socio-economic development linked the earlier long-distance slave trade and the local and regional trafficking networks of the later Middle Ages.

Of Iron Cages, Double Binds, Epistemological Crises, and Environmental Destruction

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 358-379
Author(s):  
Anthony O. Balcomb
Keyword(s):  
Max Weber ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
The World ◽  
Prediction And Control ◽  
Epistemological Crises ◽  
And Control

The Western worldview, otherwise known as the modern worldview, has its origins in ancient Greek culture and its best known analyst and critic is Max Weber. Weber described the rationalization processes by which it came about as involving the disenchantment of the world, the disengagement of the autonomous self from the world in order to become its central agent, the objectification of the cosmos and the bureaucratization of all aspects of human life with the intention of mastery and control. This has led to what Weber called the Iron Cage in which modern human beings find themselves, unable to escape the alienation that such disengagement has brought about but equally unable to find an alternative. The exploitative nature of the western project is the basic cause of the contemporary destruction of the environment. Gregory Bateson probes more deeply into the alienating influences of the modern worldview which he says is based on its inability to understand the world holistically, which will inevitably lead to the world’s destruction. At the heart of this condition is his theory of the double bind. His advocacy for a more holistic understanding of the world resonates with postmodern critics in the fields of philosophy, anthropology, and theology, all of whom are advocating engagement, vulnerability, and participation as opposed to separation, prediction, and control.

scholarly journals Trafficking in Human Beings: Made and Cut to Measure? Anti-trafficking Docufictions and the Production of Anti-trafficking Truths

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 540-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiril Sharapov ◽  
Jonathan Mendel
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Construction Of Knowledge ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Trafficking In Human Beings ◽  
Media Imagery ◽  
Video Makers ◽  
Conceptual Work

This article responds to Gozdziak’s (2015: 30) call to explore how the knowledge that informs public debates about human trafficking is generated. Media imagery and narratives play a significant role in constructing both knowledge and ignorance. This article reflects on the construction of such knowledge by analysing how anti-trafficking docufiction videos from the Unchosen competition dramatize trafficking. We draw on Goffman’s (1974) work on frames to analyse how these videos present a simplified interpretation of reality, where certain constructed aspects of trafficking and exploitation are represented by video-makers as illustrating the general. In doing so, we highlight how anti-trafficking docufictions help efface everyday exploitation. The article contributes both to the empirical research on the construction of knowledge about trafficking, and to critical conceptual work on (anti)trafficking, exploitation and ignorance. It is part of a broader project to challenge exceptionalizing and individualizing representations of human trafficking – aiming to engage better with everyday exploitation.

SHORTER ARTICLES, COMMENTS, AND NOTES: TRAFFICKING OF HUMAN BEINGS AS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY: SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL SYSTEM

2005 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 445-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Obokata
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Trafficking In Persons ◽  
Transnational Organized Crime ◽  
The World ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
International Legal System

Trafficking of human beings is a widespread practice in the modern world. It has been estimated that up to 800,000 people, especially women and children, are trafficked all around the world each year.1Virtually all States are affected,2and traffickers are believed to make between $7 and $10 billion annually from the trafficking business.3In order to combat trafficking, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (Trafficking Protocol) was adopted in December 2000, within the framework of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Organized Crime Convention).4

scholarly journals New challenges in the problem of combating human trafficking in Ukraine

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (44) ◽  
pp. 28-37
Author(s):  
Larysa Danylchuk ◽  
Danylo Yosyfovych ◽  
Yaroslav Kohut ◽  
Yuliia Todortseva ◽  
Petro Kozyra
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Genetic Material ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Trafficking In Human Beings ◽  
Scientific Fields

The article presents the author’s results of theoretical and empirical analyzes of challenges in combating human trafficking in Ukraine. Theoretical analysis showed that human trafficking is an interdisciplinary problem and is represented by a number of studies by scientists in various scientific fields in the domestic and foreign scientific space. It has been established that currently there is no research on new challenges in combating human trafficking in Ukraine. Empirical analysis of new challenges in combating trafficking in human beings in Ukraine was carried out through the implementation of a polygon study and interpretation of the results. The obtained data outline new challenges in the problem of combating human trafficking in Ukraine, such as: use for selfish purposes, forced donation, trade in biological/genetic material, reproductive programs/surrogacy. The results suggest that the new challenges in combating human trafficking in Ukraine are a real platform for transnational crime. It was stated that such circumstances require strengthening of international cooperation in combating transnational human trafficking, legal regulation and improving the domestic legal framework with systematic and full informing of Ukrainian people about consequences and new challenges in combating human trafficking.

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