1. SEXUAL EXPLOITATION: The most well-known form of human trafficking pertains to different forms of sexual exploitation, including forcing an individual to engage in commercial sex acts such as prostitution or the production of pornography. Children Exploitation for Commercial Sex. Each year, more than two million children are exploited in the global commercial sex trade. Many of these children are trapped in prostitution. The commercial sexual exploitation of children is trafficking, regardless of circumstances. International covenants and protocols obligate criminalization of the commercial sexual exploitation of children. The use of children in the commercial sex trade is prohibited under both U.S. law and the U.N. TIP Protocol. There can be no exceptions, no cultural or socio-economic rationalizations that prevent the rescue of children from sexual servitude. Terms such as “child sex worker” are unacceptable because they falsely sanitize the brutality of this exploitation.

2. LABOUR TRAFFICKING: Labour Trafficking or Forced Labour occurs when individuals are compelled against their will to provide work or service through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. In 2016, it was estimated by ILO that 24.9 million people around the globe were in forced labor.
Traffickers do not discriminate when it comes to forced labor: victims can be any age, race, religious affiliation, gender identity, nationality or socioeconomic group. Certain risk factors do create a greater likelihood that an individual would be labor trafficked, such as an unstable immigration status, language barriers in each country, poverty, lack of social support, or suffering from trauma.

3. DOMESTIC SERVITUDE: Domestic servitude occurs in private residences, where domestic workers are not free to leave their employment and are often abused and underpaid (if paid at all). They do not receive basic benefits and protections, such as time off, and can be limited to movement solely within the residence. Labor officials have difficulty inspecting employment conditions in private homes, and these workers can face abuse, harassment, and exploitation.

4. DEBT BONDAGE: Debt Bondage or Bonded labor, occurs when an individual gives themselves into slavery as security against a loan or when they inherit a debt from a relative. It will often look like an employment agreement, but one where the worker eventually finds repayment of the loan to be impossible, resulting in permanent enslavement. Migrant laborers are particularly vulnerable to this form of enslavement while searching for economic opportunity in a new country.

5. ORGAN HARVESTING: While not as prevalent as sex and labor trafficking, organ harvesting or removal is a widespread and universally condemned violation. Many victims are killed or left for dead once one or more organs has been removed. This black market thrives in the trade of bones, blood, and other body tissues – with as many as 8.000 kidneys illegally obtained by traffickers every year.

The individuals involved with organ removal consist of four populations:
1. Desperate patients willing to travel great distances and face considerable insecurity to obtain transplants
2. Equally desperate organ sellers
3. Outlaw surgeons willing to break the law
4. Organ intermediaries.

6. FORCED BEGGING: Many people have likely encountered situations in public where small children are begging for money on the street. While not always evident, a great number of these children are coerced into their situation by traffickers through intimidation or threats. It is one of the most widespread forms of trafficking, as well one of the most visible, with exploited children being out in plain sight as pedestrians walk by.

7. FORCED MARRIAGE. : While marriage is the legal or formal recognition of the union of two consenting people in a relationship, forced marriage is when one individual does not consent. This force can happen as a result of threats, pressure, or coercion. It is labeled as human trafficking because it is considered involuntary servitude.
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000 defines involuntary servitude as a “condition of servitude induced by means of any scheme, plan, or pattern intended to cause a person to believe that, if the person did not enter into or continue in such condition, that person or another person would suffer serious harm or physical restraint; or the abuse or threatened abuse of the legal process. United Nations considered it as a modern slavery.
Prior to forced marriage being classified as a form of human trafficking, the United Nations considered it a form of slavery.