Children are trafficked both within and between countries for the purposes of forced labour, sexual exploitation, forced marriage, domestic work, begging, service to armed groups, and many other forms of exploitation.
Slavery can involve sexual exploitation, forced labour, domestic servitude or forced criminality, he said.
Human trafficking – for sexual exploitation, forced labour and other modern forms of slavery – is not some foreign evil.
It is the least protected people who fall into the trap of exploitation, forced begging and various forms of abuse".
Without the right documents, the migrant workers are easy targets for sexual exploitation, forced labour and modern-day slavery.
He helped to formulate the policies of Germanisation, exploitation, forced labour, extermination of Jews and opponents of Nazi rule, and he set up the administration which carried them out.
While the EU has been effectively treating Libya as a safe country, despite consistent reports of rapes, torture, exploitation, forced labour and physical abuse of returnees, the fighting that broke out in August exposed how untrue this was.
Sexual exploitation is the most common form of modern slavery reported in the UK, followed by labour exploitation, forced criminal exploitation and domestic servitude.
Police Scotland Deputy Chief Constable Iain Livingstone said: "People are trafficked for a variety of purposes, including commercial sexual exploitation, labour exploitation, forced criminality and domestic servitude, and all for the profit or personal gain of the traffickers.
