Human Trafficking – Types

1. Forced Labor: This type of trafficking is characterized by the exploitation of individuals through forced, bonded, or involuntary labor. It includes industries like agriculture, fishing, manufacturing, construction, and domestic work. Victims are often trapped through threats, physical abuse, or by being deceived with false promises of good jobs.

2. Domestic Servitude: A specific form of forced labor where individuals, often immigrants, are employed in private homes for domestic work under exploitative conditions. They might be restricted in their movements, not allowed to leave the home, and may work long hours with little or no pay.

3. Forced Child Labor: This involves the exploitation of children for labor which deprives them of their childhood, potential, and dignity, often leading to harm to their physical and mental development. It can include commercial sexual exploitation, forced begging, or illegal activities like drug trafficking.

4. Child Soldiers: In conflict zones, children might be forcibly recruited or coerced into participating in hostilities. These children often suffer from severe exploitation, including being used in combat or as spies, messengers, or sexual slaves.

5. Organ Removal: Trafficking for the purpose of organ removal involves the selling of human organs, often under coercion or deception. While less common, it’s a severe form of exploitation where individuals might be promised payment or medical care but end up being exploited for their organs.

6. Forced Marriage: This form of trafficking involves the coercion of individuals into marriage without their consent. It often overlaps with other forms of trafficking, leading to further exploitation like domestic servitude or sexual exploitation.

7. Debt Bondage: A situation where a person is forced to work to pay off a debt, often under exploitative conditions where the debt increases rather than decreases over time due to inflated charges or interest rates. This can lead to long-term or indefinite servitude.

8. Begging: Children or adults might be forced to beg in streets, where traffickers control the profits, using tactics like physical abuse or psychological manipulation to ensure compliance.

9. Sex Trafficking: This involves the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act, induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or when the person induced to perform such an act is under 18 years of age. Sex trafficking can occur in various settings like brothels, strip clubs, massage parlors, or through escort services.

Each type of trafficking can overlap, and victims might experience more than one form of exploitation. Human trafficking is a global issue, affecting every region, and involves both domestic and international trafficking scenarios.