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Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is modern day slavery. Its victims are women, men and
children in search of better prospects in life. Women comprise at least 56%
of the world’s trafficking victims. 12.3 million adults and children in forced
prostitution and/ or forced labour or bonded labour around the world. Lured
with promises of better jobs or education, they often end up in prostitution or
forced labour.
Definition of human trafficking: “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."
The consent of a victim of trafficking in persons to the intended exploitation
is irrelevant.
Trafficking is not necessarily cross border – it can take place within a
country.
Two major forms of trafficking in this region are sexual exploitation; and
forced labour
The UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,
especially Women and Children Adopted by General Assembly and
entered into force on 25 December 2003. It is the first global legally
binding instrument with an agreed definition of trafficking in persons. The
intention behind this definition is to facilitate convergence in national
approaches with regard to the establishment of domestic criminal offences
that would support efficient international cooperation in investigating &
prosecuting trafficking in persons cases. An additional objective of the
Protocol is to protect and assist the victims of trafficking in persons with
full respect for their human rights.
What Can be Done in Zimbabwe
1. Zimbabwe needs to sign and ratify the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress
and Punish Trafficking in Persons
2. Pass legislation to outlaw human trafficking. Draft legislation has been
compiled but it has not yet been agreed
to and passed into law
3. Have a clear policy on human trafficking:
· ensure statistics are kept;
· raise awareness;
· take urgent steps to prevent it;
· provide for the prosecution of traffickers;
· rescue those who have been trafficked.
72 Prevention of conspiracy or incitement abroad to commit sexual crimes against
young or
mentally incompetent persons in Zimbabwe
(1) Any person who, outside Zimbabwe, conspires with or incites another person to
commit the crime of rape, aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault, sexual
intercourse or performing an indecent act or sodomy in Zimbabwe with or against a
young or mentally incompetent adult person shall be guilty of conspiracy or
incitement, as the case may be, to commit the appropriate crime and liable to be
sentenced accordingly.
(2) Subsection (1) shall apply whether or not conspiracy or incitement to commit the
crime concerned is a crime in the place where the alleged conspiracy or incitement
took place.

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