These are the required elements that must be included in a comprehensive definition of human trafficking:
(1) Acts: recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons
(2) Means (this list is not exhaustive and represents elements that should be included at a minimum): threatened use of force, use of force, coercion, fraud, threatened abuse of the legal process, abuse of the legal process, abuse of power, giving or receiving payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person
(3) Purpose: Exploitation
It is the purpose that defines the state of being trafficked. Therefore, it is exploitation, not smuggling or crossing international borders, that defines the state of being trafficked.
(4) Forms of Exploitation (the list is at a minimum): sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, slavery, removal of organs
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