Public policies for assistance to victims of human trafficking in Colombia: state of the art 2005-2016

Abstract

Human trafficking is a crime that has generated a number of victims affected by their bodies commodification, their physical strength or creative ability. Valued from a profit logic, which is due to the supply and demand in the local, national and transnational context. For that reason, constitutes a denial of human rights and therefore becomes invisible to the human dignity.

This article presents the state of the art on research carried out in the period 2005-2016 about the assistance and protection to victims of human trafficking. First, we go through the heuristic methodology and then to the hermeneutics in order to describe and analyze the progress around this problem in relation to public policies in Colombia.

Researchers found, for the most part, give an account of human trafficking with the women sexual exploitation purposes. The various authors have emphasized that trafficking is a gender based violence and therefore claim that this approach should be predominant in public policy; consequently, in the design and implementation of the same there have not been considered other forms of exploitation such as forced labor.