Human trafficking, commonly referred to as modern day slavery, is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of a person by use of force, fraud, or coercion, to gain consent of another person for purposes of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs. Consent of a victim becomes irrelevant when force, fraud, or coercion is used. Consent is irrelevant in case of children less than 18 years of age even if this does not involve force, fraud or coercion.
