Marriage in which one or both parties is married against their will, often on promise of payment of money or goods to the family of the other person involved.
What is Forced Marriage?
100
A person under the age of 18 who participates, directly or indirectly, in armed conflict as part of an armed force or group, in armed or support roles.
What is a Child Soldier?
100
Work performed under the threat of a penalty or harm and which the person has not voluntarily submitted to.
What is Forced Labor?
100
Repeated violation or sexual abuse or forcing of a victim to provide sexual services; it often takes the form of forced prostitution or forced labor where sexual abuse is also common.
What is Sexual Slavery?
100
The commercial trade or trafficking in human beings for the purpose of some form of slavery, usually involving recruiting, transporting or obtaining a person by force, coercion or deceptive means.
What is Human Trafficking?
200
Action carried out during a time of war that violates accepted international rules of war.
What is War Crime?
200
The placement of civilians in or around military targets to deter the other party from attacking that target.
What is a Human Shield?
200
A form of forced or bonded labor, with or without pay, under threat of violence.
What is Contemporary Slavery?
200
The illegal transportation of people across borders, where people voluntarily pay a fee to the smuggler, then are usually free to continue on their own after arrival in the hope of starting a new life in the destination country.
What is People Smuggling?
300
The act of forced conscription used in England during the 1800s; groups of men known as press gangs were employed by the government to recruit people forcibly into lifetime service with the armed forces.
What is Press-ganging?
300
A situation where a person is forced to repay a loan with labor instead of money, where the proper value of the labor is not applied towards repayment, and/or the type or duration of services is not properly limited.