Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT6WKI669uc

Description & Relevance:
This educational video explains what human trafficking is and how it differs from smuggling or consensual sex work.

Summary:
It emphasizes that trafficking is about control, not movement, and that victims are typically recruited through grooming and emotional manipulation.

Course Connections:
Supports the definition of crime and reinforces ideas from tort law like intentional harm. Also ties into Charter rights such as security of the person and mobility rights.

Personal Connection:
In roles working with youth or vulnerable populations, understanding these red flags is essential to prevent and advocate.

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What it’s about:
This shows how migrant workers are also victims of human trafficking in Canada. They are treated badly by employers.

Why it matters:
It shows that not all trafficking is sex-related. Some people are forced to work in bad jobs without freedom.

What I learned in class:
This connects with employment law and criminal law. It shows how trafficking can happen even in legal systems.

https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/cntrng-crm/hmn-trffckng/index-en.aspx

What it’s about:
It explains what trafficking is, how it happens, and what the government is doing about it.

Connection to class:
It helps us understand how laws like the Criminal Code are used to stop human trafficking.

2. UNODC – What Is Human Trafficking?

https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-human-trafficking.html

What it’s about:
It shows how trafficking happens worldwide, and how countries work together to stop it.

Connection to class:
It connects to international law and how Canada is part of the global fight against trafficking.

3. Canadian Women’s Foundation – Human Trafficking Facts

https://canadianwomen.org/the-facts/human-trafficking/

What it’s about:
It explains how mostly girls and women are targeted and what myths people believe about trafficking.

Connection to class:
It connects to gender-based violence, and how law helps protect vulnerable people.

What happened:
A man named Oke was found guilty of trafficking a young girl. He used threats and social media to make her work in the sex trade. The court said he clearly controlled and exploited her.

Why it matters:
This real case shows how the courts in Canada deal with human trafficking using the Criminal Code.

Connection to class:
It connects to what we learned about criminal law, Charter rights, and how courts protect victims.

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• Canadian Women’s Foundation. (n.d.). What is human trafficking? https://canadianwomen.org/the-facts/human-trafficking/

• CBC Marketplace. (2019, March 1). Canada’s modern slavery [Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVC9q6dnK8U

• Global News. (2020, Oct 21). Human trafficking in Canada [Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_f2TzpN3Jw

• Joy Smith Foundation. (2021, Apr 7). Understanding human trafficking [Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtFTtFUMW34

• Public Safety Canada. (2022). Human trafficking. https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/cntrng-crm/hmn-trffckng/index-en.aspx

• R v Oke, 2023 ONCA 187 (CanLII). https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onca/doc/2023/2023onca187/2023onca187.html

• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. (n.d.). What is human trafficking? https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-human-trafficking.html