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5 main circumstances that allow a person to become vulnerable to becoming a trafficking victim

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What is human trafficking?

International definition

According to international definition, human trafficking means: “The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or purchase of persons for the sole purpose of exploitation.”

Typically, human beings are being disposed of, as if they were goods or objects which can be bought or sold irrationally. Trafficking exploits human beings for income, whether through sex, forced labour or human organs.


Traffickers take advantage of poverty, lack of prospects, and hope for a better future, by tricking and luring their victims into other countries.

Whether they emigrate legally or illegally, they then go with false promises of work or prospective marriages. Upon their arrival, the victims are coerced into dependence through debt bondage, violence or drugs, therefore becoming “exploited” goods. They are deprived of their personal rights, freedom of speech, independence and self-respect.

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Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking

Israel conducted a study about prostitution in the country and published the results. 


 Click here for a summary about prostitution in Israel by the Jerusalem Institute for Justice: The Truth about Prostitution.

Switzerland is a destination and transit country for human trafficking.  Human trafficking occurs in secret wherefore it is difficult to assess the extent of the whole problem. According to the Swiss Federal Office of Police, between 1,500 and 3,000 trafficking victims come to Switzerland each year. This is an estimate; the actual number of cases might even be higher.


You will find the fact sheet of KSMM (Swiss Coordination Unit against the Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants) here:


Fact Sheet (KSMM)

Report Suspicions

Stop crime!

Please always report any suspicion of an exploitive situation

 


Please always report any suspicion of an exploitive situation, wherein a person is forced to do something against his or her will, either through threat of force, deception, fraud or abuse in connection with human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Give a victim your voice and help to solve a crime.

Call (anonymous):


Monday to Friday: 10.00 – 18.00
Phone: 0840 212 212


Online Form (anonymous):


National Hotline against human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
http://www.act212.ch/

Links
Trafficking in Persons Report 2017

This year’s Report places a special emphasis on human trafficking in the global marketplace. It highlights the hidden risks that workers may encounter when seeking employment and the steps that governments and businesses can take to prevent trafficking, including a demand for transparency in global supply chains.

Trafficking in Persons Report 2017
Map of Sex Work Law
Explore sexuality, poverty and law programme worldwide.
Trafficking In Persons in Israel- 2015 Monitoring Report
Yasmin Confino, the manager of the Ministry of Welfare’s shelters for TIP survivors, told Yedioth reporter Liat Bar Stav on December 25, 2015: 
"... Today it is different. Today, the woman knows that she is going to provide sex services. She also receives part of the payment from the clients. She is not held captive and she gets to keep her passport and cell phone. Yet, since these are foreign women who live separately from Israelis and they do not speak the language, they are dependent on the pimps, dependence that contributes to the pimps' control over these women".
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Read the report here.
The Swiss Coordination Unit against the Trafficking of Persons and Smuggling of Migrants (KSMM).

KSMM aims to provide the necessary structures and networks for effectively fighting and preventing human trafficking and migrant smuggling in Switzerland.

More information here
UNODC on Human Trafficking

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes keeps a comprehensive database of law cases by countries in regards to human trafficking and migrant smuggling.

Link to the database