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Under international law, slavery is defined as "the status or
condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers
attaching to the right of ownership are exercised." More simply,
slavery exists when individuals are sold, traded, used, abused,
and disposed.
What is human trafficking?
Human trafficking in Canada involves the sexual exploitation
and forced labour of a diverse array of victims: Canadian citizens and newcomers, adults and children,
women and men.
In 2000 a United Nations conference in Palermo, Italy, established a common definition of human
trafficking in the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons. The Palermo
Protocol has widespread international support, with 117 signatories, including Canada.
Under the Protocol, human trafficking occurs:
* when an individual recruits, transports, transfers, harbours or receives people;
* by means of deception, fraud, coercion, abuse of power, payment to others in control of the victim,
threats of force, use of force or abduction;
* for the purpose of sexual exploitation, forced labour/services, removal of organs, servitude, slavery
or practices similar to slavery.
Human trafficking has been referred to as "modern-day slavery" and involves the domestic or
international recruiting, transporting and harbouring of people for forced labour exploitation and is
unlike human smuggling, where people pay someone to bring them into the country illegally.
Statistics about how many people are trafficked into the province annually and where they come from
are virtually non-existent.
In 2004, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada's federal law enforcement agency, estimated
that 800 people were trafficked into Canada per year - 200 of whom were labour trafficking victims.
While anti-trafficking efforts are still developing, it has been highlighted annually by the U.S. State
Department that
Canada lacks a national strategy to combat the emerging crime.
A 2010 RCMP Human Trafficking in Canada report noted the influx "has generated concern."
The purpose of this website is to provide a reporting centre for Modern-Day Slavery.
All information is treated as Confidential, and will the information supplied in our Report Form
(www.mdsrc.org/report.htm) will be forwarded to the international law enforcement dealing with
Modern-Day Slavery in the country reported in our report form.
Be a part of the solution and not the problem. Report All Cases of Modern-Day Slavery.
This website is sponsored by LUCIA MANN who is the author of Beside An Ocean Of Sorrow, Rented
Silence and Africa's Unfinished Symphony.
Lucia Man is Sicilian-bred, born in British Colonial South Africa in the wake of WWII. She is a citizen
of Britain and Canada who recently applied for a U.S. Green Card because she believes she is an
American at heart. She was educated in London, England and retired from freelance journalism in
1998. After suffering from racial prejudice most of her early life because she was part Italian and part
South African, she saw and felt firsthand the pain and suffering of those who were thought to be
inferior because of the color of their skin. Her mission is to end prejudice and slavery now and in the
future.
Visit her website at www.luciamann.com.
www.MDSRC.org
MODERN-DAY SLAVERY REPORTING CENTRE
