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Platform for Labour Action (PLA) is a National Civil Society Organization that was founded in the year 2000. PLA is focused on promoting and protecting the rights of vulnerable and marginalized workers through empowerment of communities and individuals in Uganda.

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Category: Trafficking

Trafficking in persons is the illegal/unlawful movement of people from one place to another with the intention of exploitation.

For example

Village to town

Country to another country

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Category: Trafficking

  • It involves the following:
  • Recruiting /getting of people-
  • Engaging- by employing them
  • Transporting of the victims
  • Keeping
  • Receiving
  • Harbouring
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Category: Trafficking

  • Children
  • Women
  • Unemployed youth

Schemes used by traffickers

  • Tricks
  • Force
  • Lies-
  • Forging
  • Threatening
  • False promises to that person so that he/she accepts to be trafficked- such as good employment opportunities with better abroad
  • Taking advantages of the person’s situation- if one is poor
  • Use of a person's position/power over the person being illegally moved
  • Giving money to get the permission of the person having control over the person to be moved

Receiving money to give permission to illegally move a person.

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