The phrase "are trafficked for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the illegal trade or movement of people or goods, often in relation to exploitation.
Example: "Many individuals are trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation."
Alternatives: "are smuggled for" or "are traded for".
Although the IOM estimates that approximately 33% of victims of trafficking are trafficked for labour exploitation [ 5], expertise in caring for trafficked people has been developed primarily in relation to trafficking for sexual exploitation.
According to the State Department, 80percentt of trafficked people are women and children, an overwhelming majority of whom are trafficked for sexual purposes.
"The vast majority of female victims are trafficked for sexual exploitation.
South Korea is another source country; hundreds of "young female Koreans are trafficked for sexual exploitation, mainly to the United States," the report says.
"Bought and Sold," by Bob Herbert (column, Nov. 20), helps Americans wake up to the fact that our children are trafficked for sexual exploitation.
And asylum-seeker numbers are creeping up again.In this section Good things and small packages Hard going The queen is dead Tartan and thistles Wanted: a red Boris The architect The nightmare scenario ReprintsUndocumented children get little attention, aside from the few who arrive clinging to the bottom of a lorry or are trafficked for exploitation as winkle-pickers or sex-workers.
The only exceptions are trafficking for organ removal, forced marriage and adoption, unless the last two practices result in forced labour.
Europol, working with the UK and others, recently found 450 women being trafficked for sexual exploitation.
The men who visited the villages worked for the local drug cartels, snatching girls to be trafficked for sex.
