Trafficking in women for the purpose of sexual exploitation

Abstract

Trafficking in persons is considered to be the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or a position of vulnerability or of giving or receiving payments or benefits to obtain consent for a person to have control over another person,  for the purpose of exploration. The choice of this theme is justified because it provides a focus on an invisible crime. The general objective of this work is to present an analysis of the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation, dealing with the concept of this crime, the challenges to identify the people involved and the understanding of this inhumane crime. Specifically, the objective was to investigate the phenomenon of trafficking in persons, identify the profile of the main victims, highlight the means most used by traffickers, in addition to presenting the main measures that must be taken so that national and international authorities can face this type of crime efficiently, in addition to what they can do to prevent and effectively confront it. Human trafficking is the third most profitable illicit business in the world, after drugs and weapons. This practice occurs in all countries, with women, children and adolescents as the main victims. The countries most affected by human trafficking for sexual exploitation are those marked by poverty, political instability, and economic inequalities. The methodology used for the construction of this work was a bibliographical, documentary and descriptive study, with an inductive method where emphasis was placed on authors who have authority and renown on the subject studied. It is concluded that, although there has been an evolution of the Brazilian legislation for trafficking in persons, inserting this practice in the list of crimes against individual freedom, going through a new treatment that reveals the concern with the protection and promotion of human rights, in addition to respect for the principle of human dignity, much still needs to be done in the actions to confront this crime.