Human Trafficking in Lesotho: Root Causes and Recommendations
- Document number
- 1453
- Date
- 2007
- Title
- Human Trafficking in Lesotho: Root Causes and Recommendations
- Author/publisher
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Policy Paper Poverty Series n° 14.6 (E)
- Summary
- Lesotho is mainly a country of origin and transit for human trafficking activities and the country experiences internal and international human trafficking flows. The main actors involved in this crime are the trafficked persons, the traffickers and the users of trafficked victims. These people end up being part of the human trafficking chain because of various reasons that are either push or pull factors. Pull factors might include a demand for domestic and sexual services or economic differentials that make even relatively poor neighboring cities, regions or countries seem a likely source of livelihood. Push factors mainly include poverty, gender discrimination, lack of information and education, HIV and AIDS, violence against women, harmful sociocultural practices and lack of legislative and policy frameworks
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