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Trafficking
auf Deutsch
A street in the Kabuki-cho
districk of Tokyo where many women are trafficked into forced prostitution.
Japan, 1999. © 1999 Kinsey Dinan/Human Rights Watch
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Trafficking in persons — the illegal
and highly profitable recruitment, transport, or sale of human beings into
all forms of forced labor and servitude, including trafficking into forced
marriage — is a tragic and complex human rights abuse. Women are particularly
vulnerable to this slavery-like practice, due largely to the persistent
inequalities they face in status and opportunity worldwide.
Human Rights Watch has exposed
consistent patterns in the trafficking of women. In all cases, coercive
tactics, including deception, fraud, intimidation, isolation, threat and
use of physical force, or debt bondage, are used to control women. In many
cases, such as in Bosnia
and Herzegovina, corrupt officials facilitate the trafficking, accepting
bribes to falsify documents and provide protection. Without such corruption
and complicity on the part of state officials, trafficking could not thrive.
Many governments treat trafficked persons as illegal aliens, criminals,
or both, exposing them to further abuse. For example, Thai trafficking
victims in Japan are regularly
detained as illegal aliens and deported with a five-year ban on reentering
the country. By targeting the victims instead of the perpetrators, states
allow the abuses to continue.
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