WHICH PEOPLE DOES THE LAW SAY ARE HUMAN TRAFFICKERS ?.

Mosley wants what all his friends have; Phones with 3 ‘eyes’, faded ‘damaged’ jeans, cool shoes and that nice house they rent on a Kampala hill.

All he has to do, they said, “is to identify and lure young good-looking men and women and they will do the rest”. Mosely found that comment weird and dug deeper only to find that his friends ‘facilitate’ the sale of body organs and other ‘things’. These friends have warned Mosely that he should keep his mouth shut.

While it is true that Mosely has been seeing stories of people disappearing, a ‘ka-voice’ tells him that he can just pretend that he does not know anything and just direct people to meet his friends so that they make up their own minds. Can he do this?

WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY?

First, human trafficking is when a person recruits, transports transfers or houses, or even receives people who have been collected so those people can be exploited. It is not just the slaver or the person who harvests organs or records videos who is responsible.

This means that the following people who are involved are all human traffickers:

1. The person who recruits other people who will be exploited

2. The person who transports them from one place to another so they can be exploited (We do not mean a taxi driver who you wave down on the road).

3. The person who receives or gives residence to people so they can be exploited.

4. The person who also pays or receives a payment or benefit to make sure such people agree to be exploited (this can be through threatening, forcing them, lying to them or fraud).

This means that if Mosley directs people to his friends or tricks them into going there, he will have taken part. The law also gives more serious punishments to those who use force to get someone to engage in acts such as prostitution, pornography, sexual exploitation, forced labour, slavery, involuntary servitude, death bondage, forced or arranged marriage.

However, if a person does any of the above acts involving a child, even if they do not use force, it will amount to human trafficking.

4. The person who also pays or receives a payment or benefit to ensure such people agree to be exploited (this can be through threatening, forcing them, lying to them or fraud).

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