Consent: A Loophole in Human Trafficking Law

  By: Brittany Barnett, L’19   The United Nations defines human trafficking as having three elements: an act, a means, and a purpose:   “(i) an “action”, being recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons; (ii) a ‘means’ by which that action is achieved (threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or a position of vulnerability, … Continue reading Consent: A Loophole in Human Trafficking Law