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<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>What is human trafficking?<\/h1><\/div>An international definition of the term human trafficking can be found in the so-called Palermo Protocol (Article 3, a), an additional protocol to prevent, combat and punish human trafficking, in particular women and children, to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\u201c[T]he term \u201ctrafficking in human beings\u201d means the recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring or reception of persons through the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, through kidnapping, fraud, deception, abuse of power or exploitation of special privileges Helplessness or by giving or receiving payments or benefits to obtain the consent of a person who has power over another person for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation includes at least the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or servitude, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Human trafficking and exploitation are defined in the German Criminal Code (Section 18) as crimes against personal freedom. As of 2016, the German legislator has been implementing the EU directive on combating human trafficking and protecting its victims (2011\/36\/EU).<\/p>\n
Since then, the following criminal offenses have been included in the German Criminal Code and defined as crimes against people’s personal freedom as guaranteed by the German constitution (Basic Law):<\/p>\n
\u00a7 232 StGB human trafficking
\n\u00a7 232a StGB forced prostitution
\n\u00a7 232b StGB forced labor
\n\u00a7 233 StGB Exploitation of labor
\n\u00a7 233a StGB Exploitation using deprivation of liberty<\/p>\n
This takes into account the various facets of the complex field of human trafficking: sexual exploitation and forced prostitution as well as exploitation of labor in various fields of work, forced begging, exploitation of criminal acts and organ trafficking.<\/p>\n
Victims of human trafficking primarily come from precarious socio-economic and violent living conditions. Migrants and refugees in particular become victims, but German women are also affected, especially through the so-called lover boy method. The perpetrators deceive the – often very young – women into a romantic relationship and make them emotionally dependent in order to ultimately push them into prostitution and exploit them.<\/p>\n
The International Labor Organization ILO assumes that around three quarters of victims of human trafficking and forced labor worldwide are women and girls. Over 90% of victims of forced prostitution are women. However, an above-average number of men are affected by other forms of forced labor.<\/p>\n
Source: FIM,\u00a0 Frauenrecht ist Menschenrecht (Womens rights are human rights)<\/p>\n
EU Directive 2024\/1712, which has been in force since July 2024 and reforms EU Directive 2011\/36 against trafficking in human beings, requires all states – including Germany – to, among other things, revise their criminal law to combat human trafficking by July 2026. It explicitily includes exploitation through surrogacy, illegal adoption, and forced marriage in the list of forms of exploitation for the first time. In Germany, the criminal offense of human trafficking must be expanded accordingly under Section 232 of the Criminal Code.<\/p>\n
Source: Institut f\u00fcr Menschenrechte (Institute for Human Rights)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1392","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
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An international definition of the term human trafficking can be found in the so-called Palermo Protocol (Article 3, a), an additional protocol to prevent, combat and punish human trafficking, in particular women and children, to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\u201c[T]he term \u201ctrafficking in human beings\u201d means the recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring or reception of persons through the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, through kidnapping, fraud, deception, abuse of power or exploitation of special privileges Helplessness or by giving or receiving payments or benefits to obtain the consent of a person who has power over another person for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation includes at least the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or servitude, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Human trafficking and exploitation are defined in the German Criminal Code (Section 18) as crimes against personal freedom. As of 2016, the German legislator has been implementing the EU directive on combating human trafficking and protecting its victims (2011\/36\/EU).<\/p>\n
Since then, the following criminal offenses have been included in the German Criminal Code and defined as crimes against people’s personal freedom as guaranteed by the German constitution (Basic Law):<\/p>\n
\u00a7 232 StGB human trafficking
\n\u00a7 232a StGB forced prostitution
\n\u00a7 232b StGB forced labor
\n\u00a7 233 StGB Exploitation of labor
\n\u00a7 233a StGB Exploitation using deprivation of liberty<\/p>\n
This takes into account the various facets of the complex field of human trafficking: sexual exploitation and forced prostitution as well as exploitation of labor in various fields of work, forced begging, exploitation of criminal acts and organ trafficking.<\/p>\n
Victims of human trafficking primarily come from precarious socio-economic and violent living conditions. Migrants and refugees in particular become victims, but German women are also affected, especially through the so-called lover boy method. The perpetrators deceive the – often very young – women into a romantic relationship and make them emotionally dependent in order to ultimately push them into prostitution and exploit them.<\/p>\n
The International Labor Organization ILO assumes that around three quarters of victims of human trafficking and forced labor worldwide are women and girls. Over 90% of victims of forced prostitution are women. However, an above-average number of men are affected by other forms of forced labor.<\/p>\n
Source: FIM,\u00a0 Frauenrecht ist Menschenrecht (Womens rights are human rights)<\/p>\n
EU Directive 2024\/1712, which has been in force since July 2024 and reforms EU Directive 2011\/36 against trafficking in human beings, requires all states – including Germany – to, among other things, revise their criminal law to combat human trafficking by July 2026. It explicitily includes exploitation through surrogacy, illegal adoption, and forced marriage in the list of forms of exploitation for the first time. In Germany, the criminal offense of human trafficking must be expanded accordingly under Section 232 of the Criminal Code.<\/p>\n
Source: Institut f\u00fcr Menschenrechte (Institute for Human Rights)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1392","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n