Some criteria of the concept “Human Trafficking”

Abstract

The “Human Trafficking” refers to an abuse and arbitrariness situation of an individual with the aim of reducing that person to the status of an object for commercialization or exploitation purposes. We will approach to the understanding of circumstances, causes, characteristics and other criteria that will allow identifying and to differentiate the concept of this behavior. Initially, and as the main purpose of this paper, is to review some criteria of what is currently known as Human Trafficking. We may initially note that Human Trafficking is a situation of abuse and violence, in which the individual is objectified for purpose of sexual exploitation, servitude, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, extraction of organs in human beings, and other forms of commercialization. This happens due to the irruption into their environment, with the purpose to isolate them inside or outside of the frontiers of the country or origin by achieving in this way a greater degree of manipulation and submission to exploitation conditions or to servile relationships. Therefore, this constitutes a wrongful behavior of Human Rights ostensibly affecting human dignity and individual autonomy. Colombia has signed conveyances, agreements and other international instruments aimed to the protection of (…) “Human Rights, assuming a prudent responsibility regarding rejection of situations affecting, precisely, the obligations therein included.” In this sense we found Law 985 of 2005 and Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court (Corte Suprema de Justicia), which allows us an approach to the definition of Human Trafficking in our context.