In Australia, human trafficking for exploitation in the sex industry is a crime.
Australia has introduced laws that make trafficking, sexual servitude, slavery, deceptive recruiting for sexual services and debt bondage criminal offences. The trafficking in persons offences target trafficking for exploitation in the commercial sex industry and other forms of exploitation.
What laws has Australia introduced?
Australia has introduced the following offences:
- sexual servitude (s 270.6(1) of the Criminal Code)
- conducting a business involving sexual servitude (s 270.6(2) of the Criminal Code)
- deceptive recruiting for sexual services (s 270.2(1) of the Criminal Code)
There are also trafficking offences where a person is trafficked to or from Australia in circumstances where a person is deceived.
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