Advancing the Science on the Biopsychosocial Effects of Human Trafficking

摘要

The issue of human trafficking gained global public and governance consciousness in the 1990s and reached a significant milestone at the beginning of the twenty-first century when the United Nations adopted in 2000 the Palermo Protocol—the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially in Women and Children.1 Trafficking in persons is defined as an act that can range from recruitment, transfer, harboring, to receipt of a person, which is committed by means of force, fraud, or coercion, and for exploitative sexual purposes such as prostitution or for financial gains through forced labor, slavery, or removal of organ.