A handbook for criminal justice practitioners on trafficking in persons / : Guide sur la traite des personnes à l'usage des praticiens de la justice pénale

You are asked to: exercise due diligence in ensuring the accuracy of the materials reproduced; indicate both the complete title of the materials reproduced, as well as the author organization; and indicate that the reproduction is a copy of an official work that is published by the Government of Canada and that the reproduction has not been produced in affiliation with or with the endorsement of t [...] Article 3 of the Trafficking Protocol reads: (a) “Trafficking in persons” shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a 7 position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consen [...] Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs; (b) The consent of a victim of trafficking in persons to the intended exploitation set forth in subparagraph (a) of this article shall be irrelevant where any of the me [...] Rather than itemizing specific actions, this residual aspect of the actus reus of the offence characterizes the nature of conduct in terms of the relationship between the accused and the victim in relation to the victim’s mobility. [...] Accordingly, it is both the nature of the conduct and the context in which the accused engages in that conduct that is integral to the determination of its expected effect on the complainant.