The difference between Human Trafficking &
Human
Smuggling:
Human smuggling refers to services
provided to migrants in order for them to cross the
borders illegally. While, smuggling is primarily understood
as a crime against the state, and trafficking refers
to the commitment of a crime against a person.
According to the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime in 2002, “trafficking
in persons’ shall mean the recruitment, transportation,
transfer, harboring receipt of persons, by means of
the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion,
of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse
of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the
giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve
the consent of a person having control over another
purpose, for the purpose of exploitation.
Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation
of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual
exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices
similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs”.
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The
Foundation participates in a scholarship programs that
provides financial support to low income students, who
attend the School of Medicine at the University of Puerto
Rico.
