Human Trafficking Trafficking of human beings consists of the recruitment, enslavement and harbouring of people with the aim of exploitation.  Victims of this practice can be attracted by false promises on better financial opportunities or sometimes they are physically forced. A great number of victims of human trafficking end up to be exploited in the sex industry, but they can be exploited in other sectors as well, notably as household labour. The victims of human trafficking are reduced into a modern form of slavery that causes much human suffering. With the development of modern human rights other forms of slavery have been abolished, but regrettably, the trade in human beings still exists and flourishes despite that fact that it is legally forbidden. International legal instruments to fight human trafficking include the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, also called the Palermo Convention, and the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others. On EU level, the Treaty on European Union explicitly bans trafficking in persons by enlisting it as one of the crime forms that has to be prevented and combated. Despite these efforts, human trafficking is an ongoing practice that has to be stopped. Therefore, we would like to invite everybody to join the fight for its elimination. Support our Action