In 2000, the United States government passed into law the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), which defines “severe forms of human trafficking” as:
(A) sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or
(B) the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.[1]
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[1] Section 103, Article 8 of the TVPA. Taken from http://www.state.gov/j/tip/laws/61124.htm
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[1] Section 103, Article 8 of the TVPA. Taken from http://www.state.gov/j/tip/laws/61124.htm