Human trafficking involves the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receiving a person, by threat, use of force, coercion, or abduction for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include prostitution, forced labor, slavery, servitude, use of child soldiers, or the removal of organs.
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