UNIVERSITY OF CEBU

LAPU-LAPU and MANDAUE

College of Criminal Justice
A.C Cortes, Looc, Mandaue City

TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
(CDI 311)

GROUP 1:
Fredy Jeff Yu
Christian Jake Presillas
Mercy Rendon
Ryljie Repuno
Jacob Blou Tradio
Jane Nuñez
Trafficking in Persons
Trafficking in persons, commonly known as human trafficking, is a
serious and distressing violation of human rights that involves the
illegal movement and exploitation of individuals for various
purposes. This criminal activity encompasses a range of actions,
including recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt
of individuals through the use of force, deception, coercion, or
other forms of exploitation. The primary aim of human trafficking is
to exploit the victims for financial gain, often depriving them of their
basic rights, dignity, and autonomy.

Victims of human trafficking can be subjected to a variety of

forms of exploitation:

Forced Labor: Victims are coerced into performing work under

oppressive conditions, often without fair pay or the ability to leave.
This can occur in industries such as agriculture, construction,
domestic work, and manufacturing.

Sexual Exploitation: Victims, often women and children, are forced

into prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation against their
will. They are subjected to physical and emotional abuse,
manipulation, and degradation.

Child Trafficking: Children are particularly vulnerable to trafficking.

They might be forced into child labor, forced begging, or sexual
exploitation.
Organ Trafficking: In some cases, victims are trafficked for the
purpose of organ harvesting, where their organs are forcibly
removed and sold on the black market.

Forced Marriage: Victims, especially women and girls, are forced

into marriages without their consent, often enduring physical and
emotional abuse.

Elements:

1. ACTS – It involves the recruitment, obtaining, hiring, providing,

offering, transportation, transfer, maintaining, harboring, or receipt
of persons with or without the victim’s consent or knowledge,
within or across national borders;

2. MEANS – It is committed by use of threat, or use of force, or

other forms or coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of
power or of position, taking advantage of the vulnerability of the
person, or the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to
achieve the consent of a person having control over another
person; and

3. PURPOSE – It is done for the purpose of exploitation or the

prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced
labor or services, slavery, involuntary servitude or the removal or
sale of organs.