BACKGROUND Human trafficking has been recognized both by the international community and many individual states around the world as a serious violation of human rights. Trafficking is associated with extreme violence and a range of physical, mental, and sexual health consequences. Despite the extreme nature of the harm caused by human trafficking, harm is not a concept that is integrated in the...

Background: The present study explores trauma-related factors (human trafficking or physical sexual violence during transactional sex) associated with interest in future community mobilization around health and human rights. Community among persons selling sex aims to help participants overcome trauma increase self-reliance through peer advocacy collective action for improved conditions. Howeve...

The effect of prostitution laws on human trafficking and voluntary prostitution is subject to debate. We argue theoretically that neither legalization nor criminalization can simultaneously protect voluntary prostitutes and unambiguously reduce trafficking. We propose an alternative, “hybrid” policy that achieves both objectives and restores the free market outcome that arises in the absence of...

The rationale behind this study is considering combating and preventing the phenomenon of trafficking in human beings from a multidisciplinary perspective that involves many layers of the society. Trafficking in human beings is an abhorrent phenomenon highly affecting negatively the victims and their families in both human and material aspect, sometimes causing irreversible damages. The longer ...

Globally, women and girls make up the majority of recorded estimated victims modern slavery human trafficking. In Brazil, however, females represent only 5% more than 35,000 people rescued from forced slave labour 2003 to 2018. This paper interrogates data on antislavery efforts in identify explain gender dynamics rescues. It evaluates legal, policy, contextual factors that may help discrepanci...

This paper investigates the impact of legalized prostitution on human trafficking inflows. According to economic theory, there are two opposing effects of unknown magnitude. The scale effect of legalizing prostitution leads to an expansion of the prostitution market, increasing human trafficking, while the substitution effect reduces demand for trafficked women as legal prostitutes are favored ...