Human Trafficking In Australia. This essay will be covering different aspect of human trafficking and slavery in ways of legal and non-legal response. It will also be responding on how effective the legal system is in regards of human trafficking on the

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Human Trafficking

Human trafficking can be considered to be many things. It can be separated into different types of trafficking such as sex trafficking, labour trafficking, child soldiers and organ trafficking. Sex trafficking and labour trafficking are to be of the most popular types of trafficking. Trafficking is very common worldwide. It is an everyday occurrence in every single country of the world, although it goes to higher and more drastic extents in some countries. The number of people trafficked into Australia is low compared to many other countries with most victims in Australia being women working in the sex industry.  This essay will be covering different aspect of human trafficking and slavery in ways of legal and non-legal response. It will also be responding on how effective the legal system is in regards of human trafficking on the slave trade.

Slavery is a system of which people are treated as property, and are used for labour. Traditionally, most people think that slavery is where people are chained up and controlled, where people are bought and traded like property.  Slavery used to be considered as a legitimate industry up until the 19th century.

Slavery and Human Trafficking used to be considered as a legitimate industry for labour, there were even laws that were formed to regulate the trade. The first of the movement to abolish the slave trade was first formed in the 19th century. William Wilberforce led a campaign to have slavery outlawed.  His work led to the passing of the “Slave Trade Act 1807 (UK).  This law was successful in ways of stoping British ships carrying slaves into the country but did not outlaw the trade in slaves. But then in 1833 he was more successful in his movement to abolish slavery laws when he enforced the “Slavery Abolition Act (UK) 1833”. This law was to enforce the ban of slavery. Although there were kinks in the chain, with the law not being fully enforced, but it was the first of its kind and was a good first movement to abolish slavery and human trafficking.

One of the many laws created to enforce the ban on Slavery and Human Trafficking was the “Conventions to suppress the slave Trade and Slavery (1926) (League of Nations). This was the first international law that defined slavery and the slave trade, and required signatory governments to abolish slavery.

Four years later the “Convention Concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour (ILO No. 29) (1930) was established. This was just a broadened definition of the slavery convention on forced labour.

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Another law that was brought in was the “Universal Declaration of human rights (1948)”.  This law was a massive step forward in the movement to rule out slavery and Human Trafficking. “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.” 

The next year the “Convention for the suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others” This convention was helpful towards bringing the principals together of many different international agreements about slavery and trafficking in women and children, it also covered ...

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