Abstract
Trafficking in persons has been defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation (http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/whatishumantrafficking, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime [6]).