Child trafficking is the act of recruiting, transporting, transferring, harboring or receiving children for the purpose of exploitation, either within or outside a country.
"In many cases, this will amount to trafficking … since migrants are recruited by means of deception to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person for the purpose of exploitation in forced labour".
Like most countries, Britain subscribes to a UN definition of people-trafficking, the three-part gist of which is that the perpetrator must have recruited or transported someone, using coercion or deception of some sort, for the purpose of exploitation.
On this point, he disagreed with that other icon of Indian nationalism, Gandhi, to whom he wrote in 1933: "it is needless to say that I do not at all relish the idea of divinity being enclosed in a brick and mortar temple for the special purpose of exploitation by a particular group of people".
"Smuggling implies the procurement of irregular entry into a state of which the individual is neither a citizen nor a permanent resident, for financial or material gain," according to the I.O.M. "Trafficking, on the other hand, occurs for the purpose of exploitation, often involving forced labor and prostitution".
(Under Philippine laws, human trafficking includes recruitment through deception for the purpose of exploitation).
Experts explain that trafficking usually involves the movement of people for the purposes of exploitation.
Child slavery is defined in the 1956 supplementary convention on slavery as the delivery by parents or guardian of a child to a third party for the purposes of exploitation.
"Human trafficking for the purposes of exploitation is an insidious and complex crime and much of the exploitation is hidden from view".
And what is colonialism but one group putting another group down for purposes of exploitation.
Each would prohibit substantially similar conduct--the trafficking or benefit obtained from trafficking of persons for purposes of exploitation.
