Human trafficking involves the recruitment, transportation, harbouring, and/or exercising of control, direction or influence over the movements of a person in order to exploit that person, typically through sexual exploitation or forced labour. It is often described as a modern form of slavery. 

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Child sexual exploitation can be defined as "coercing, luring, trafficking or engaging a child under the age of 18 into a sexual act and involvement in the sex trade or pornography, with or without the child’s consent, in exchange for money, drugs, shelter, food, protection or other necessities."*

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Trafficking is the act of "buying and/or selling goods illegally", such as drugs or firearms. The act of buying and/or selling people, or making money from work they are forced to do - such as sex work - is human trafficking for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation.

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Other forms of human trafficking can include:

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Forced labour

Forced marriage

Medical experimentation

Organ harvesting

Criminal exploitation

Ritual abuse

Child soldiers

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