Human smuggling in Russia and Central Asia
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The UN definition of "trafficking", under the terms of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (supplementing the 2000 UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime), Article 3(a) states:

'Trafficking in persons' shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring 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. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.
 
 

Table of Contents Human smuggling in Russia and Central Asia Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction.
  2. The Soviet ector.
  3. Who traffics and who is trafficked?
  4. Factors informing the trafficking.
  5. Loyalty groups and transition.
  6. The rise of the mafias.
  7. A large-scale small-scale operation.
  8. Conclusions.
 
 
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