Recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of
the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of
deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving
or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control
over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. (UN. Protocol to prevent, suppress
and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children, supplementing the
United Nations convention against transnational organized crime. General Assembly
resolution 55/25. United Nations General Assembly, 2000)
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Traffic in women and children, in particular for the purpose of sexual exploitation