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Human trafficking
The buying and selling of human beings for profit. Human trafficking is an extremely serious crime and a gross violation of human rights, which can be classified as a modern form of slavery. The goal of this section is to raise awareness of the problem and to show what is being done at EU-level and in the Member States to fight this injustice, to promote exchange of ideas and cooperation between all organisations, and to help people involved in the fight against trafficking in human beings and the protection of victims.
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Human trafficking
Practises similar to slavery
Law enforcement; Human Trafficking
Means the economic exploitation of another person on the basis of an actual relationship of dependency or coercion, in combiantion with a serious and far-reaching deprivation of fundamental civil ...
Presumed trafficked person
Law enforcement; Human Trafficking
Because trafficked persons are often initially unable or reluctant to identify themselves as such, the term "presumed" trafficked person (or presumed victim) is generally used to describe persons who ...
Personal data
Law enforcement; Human Trafficking
Defined as any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (data subject); an identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or idirectly, in particular by ...
Potential victim
Law enforcement; Human Trafficking
An individual identified before being exploited who shows strong signs of being in the trafficking process. This differs from a presumed victim, the definition for which appears below (also referred ...
Person at risk of trafficking
Law enforcement; Human Trafficking
Any person (minor or adult) who has not beentrafficked but, given her/his profile or the appearance of certain indicators, faces a greater possibility of being trafficked in the future.
Pimping
Law enforcement; Human Trafficking
The act of procuring clients for a sex worker/prostitute and/or living off the earnings of a sex worker/prostitute or brothel.
Processing of personal data
Law enforcement; Human Trafficking
Means any operation or set of operations performed upon personal data, whether or not by automatic means, such as collection, recording, organization, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, ...
