Offenses of holding or moving people for labor or for their organs by force, fraud or debt, including slavery, bondage, peonage, servitude, recruitment by trickery and domestic worker abuse. An offense belongs here when the definition names compelled work or the trade in persons for such ends. It excludes the sexual trade in persons, which sits in the sexual offenses subcategory. Entries placed here are Human Trafficking, Slavery and Forced Labor, Forced Labour, Involuntary Servitude, Debt Bondage, Peonage, Blackbirding, Organ Trafficking and Maid Abuse.
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Organ trade, Wikipedia
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Organ trade (also known as the blood market or the red market) is the trading of human organs, tissues, or other body products, usually for transplantation.
Wikipedia: Maid abuse
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Maid abuse is the maltreatment or neglect of a person hired as a domestic worker, especially by the employer or by a household member of the employer.
Forced labour (Wikipedia)
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Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, or violence, including death or other forms of extreme hardship to either themselves or members of their families.
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Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, or violence, including death or other forms of extreme hardship to either themselves or members of their families.
View the SourceBlackbirding (Wikipedia)
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Blackbirding was the trade in indentured labourers from the Pacific in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Peonage (Wikipedia)
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Peonage is any form of wage labor, financial exploitation, coercive economic practice, or policy in which the victim or a laborer (peon) has little control over employment or economic conditions.
Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: Human Trafficking (Wex Legal Dictionary)
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Human trafficking, or trafficking in persons, is a crime in which a victim is forced or exploited by another to provide work/services or perform commercial sex against their will.
USLegal, Inc.: Involuntary Servitude Law and Legal Definition
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Involuntary servitude refers to being forced through coercion to work for another.
The Law Dictionary: Involuntary Servitude (Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd edition)
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term use when a person is forced to work against his will.
Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: 18 U.S. Code § 1581 - Peonage; obstructing enforcement
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Whoever holds or returns any person to a condition of peonage, or arrests any person with the intent of placing him in or returning him to a condition of peonage, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
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