The Victims: How They Got Involved ?

Force, fraud and coercion are methods used by traffickers to press victims into lives of servitude, & abuse.

• Force: Rape, beatings, confinement 
• Fraud: Includes false and deceptive offers of employment, marriage, better life 
• Coercion: Threats of serious harm to, or physical restraint of, any person; any scheme, plan or pattern intended to cause victims to believe that failure to perform an act would result in restraint against them; or the abuse or threatened abuse of the legal process

Recruitment tactics used by traffickers : False promises of… 

• A good job 
• A better life in terms of love,marriage and financial stability 
• An opportunity to provide for their family 
• Educational opportunities

Other factors that got the victim involved in human trafficking by themselves are:

• Unemployment
•  Poverty 
•  Absence of a social safety 
•  Political instability 
•  Status of violence against women & children 
•  The low risk, high-profit