Human Trafficking
2011 Poetry Slam Press Release
Human Trafficking is the illegal trade in human beings for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation or forced labor: a modern day form of slavery.
"Human trafficking is the acquisition of people by improper means such as force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them. Smuggling migrants involves the procurement for financial or other material benefit of illegal entry of a person into a State of which that person is not a national or resident." Definition on UN website.
For more information, access the following websites: http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/index.html and http://www.humantrafficking.org/issues