What is human trafficking?

✗ According to the definition of the UN, trafficking in human beings is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons by means of threat or use of force, but also other forms of coercion, such as abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability.

✗ For the purpose of exploitation, the fates of those being trafficked include sexual exploitation, forced labour, slavery, or the removal of organs.

✗ Austria has incorporated this definition into national legislation (Criminal Code:
art. 104a - Human Trafficking).