To fight against women and children trafficking

Women and children exploitation is defined as the traffic of women and children by criminals who lure their victims to work for them in order to reap financial gains.

Human trafficking is a violation of human fundamental rights. It violates the right of free-circulation, of self-decision, of self-control of body and spirit, and the right of control our own future.

Who are the victims?
Victims can be anybody: it can be people like you and I. Nobody accepts to be trafficked, victims are force against their will into situations where they have no control.

Even if most of the time, the victims are from developing countries, anybody is at risk of being trafficked: can be students abroad or travelers per example.

Women and children are also not the only people who are at risk of being trafficked; men can be trafficked for unskilled work where the tasks are painful.

How can we be trafficked?
The recruiters is the first step of human trafficking and it is never done by an honest way. The job of the recruiters is to deceive victims with false promises to gain their trust. Recruiters can be anyone, such as:

- Employees from false agencies of recruitment, of travel agency, of modeling…
- Sometimes it can be women that are victims themselves, to whom traffickers promised a release if they do the work.
- Neighbours
- Friends, boyfriends and even family members
- Friends from school
- etc.

Recruiters use all kinds of methods when it comes of lying to find their victims, such as:
- the opportunity to study Abroad
- stands in universities campus on open house day
- adds in newspapers or on internet offering false opportunities

Here are some examples of offers:
- modeling
- studies
- housekeeping
- weddings
- construction jobs
- barmaid or waitress jobs
- etc.

What happens to human trafficking victims?
They are used for income generating activities on behalf of other people, in return of a little bit or no money at all.

As soon as they are recruited, the victims have to endure all kinds of abuses such as physics and mental abuses. Daily, they are exposed to several methods that are used to make them cooperate, such as:

- Violence (traffickers rape and beat their victims to force them to do what they want)
- Threat
- Easement associated to a false debt, that victims must repay the expenses paid for their purchase and transportation
- Blackmail

Most of the time, the victims have to make long shifts of work and they are constantly living in the fear of being mistreated if the don’t cooperate.
 
The victims can be forced to do jobs such as:
- Prostitution (85% of the cases of human trafficking)
- Forced labour (in the countryside, in factories, construction, etc.)
- Pornography
- Criminal activities (mendiance, traffic and drug distribution, counterfeit money, etc.)