Image via WikipediaAccording to the Department of State, there are 12.3 million adults and children around the world trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation, with as many as 17,000 trafficked annually within the United States alone. The following are some legal checkpoints to consider about human trafficking from Legal Services of Eastern Missouri.
P Human trafficking is the illegal trade in human beings for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. Human trafficking is a modern day form of slavery.P Sex trafficking includes a commercial sex act induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform a commercial sex act is under the age of 18.
P Labor trafficking includes the recruitment, harboring, transportation, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of labor through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage or slavery.
P Victims of human trafficking can go to local law enforcement and receive assistance. Federal law enforcement officials are specially trained to protect victims of crimes like human trafficking.
P Foreign-born victims of human trafficking can also receive assistance from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Foreign-born human trafficking victims willing to assist law enforcement may be eligible to apply for legal immigration status under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act.
P Victims of human trafficking may also be eligible to receive public benefits if necessary.
P With the help of a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Legal Services of Eastern Missouri assists victims of human trafficking in collaboration with the International Institute of St. Louis and Catholic Charities Archdiocese of St. Louis.
Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2010 03:42 PM | Tags: Law , Non-Profits
Source: stltoday.comLegal Points To Remember About Human Trafficking
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