• 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.

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

• Police
• The national task force- that seats at the ministry of internal affairs
• Platform for labour action

Offences and punishments under the trafficking in persons act 2009

Imprisonment of fifteen years if it is an individual and for organisations and companies a fine of (one thousand currency points) twenty million Uganda shillings and temporary or permanent closure; deregistration, dissolution; disqualification from the practice of certain activities.

Aggravated trafficking in person- this is where a child is trafficked and it carries a penalty of life imprisonment

Trafficking in children- this is where children are used in armed conflicts or human rituals, organs removed and carry a penalty of death.

Engaging the labour or service of a victim of trafficking knowingly. This carries a penalty of imprisonment for ten years.

Promoting trafficking in person- this carries a penalty of a fine not exceeding (one hundred and twenty currency points) two million, four hundred thousand Uganda shillings or to imprisonment for five years, or both such imprisonment and fine