BRITISH COLUMBIA CANADA — Human Trafficking ONLINE Course Module

Human Trafficking Training About This Course

Human traf­fick­ing is the recruit­ing, trans­port­ing, har­bour­ing, or receiv­ing of a per­son for the pur­pose of exploit­ing them. Traf­fick­ers use threats, force, coer­cion, decep­tion, or oth­er means to force a per­son to pro­vide labour or sex­u­al ser­vices, and some­times their organs. Human traf­fick­ing occurs in most coun­tries around the world, includ­ing Cana­da, and not just to for­eign nation­als, but to Cana­di­an cit­i­zens as well.

Human Traf­fick­ing: Cana­da Is Not Immune is designed for ser­vice providers who may come into con­tact with a traf­ficked per­son in the course of their work.

The gen­er­al pub­lic is also encour­aged to take this course to learn more about human traf­fick­ing in Canada.

The focus of this course is to help you to bet­ter rec­og­nize, pro­tect, and assist peo­ple who may have been traf­ficked, and to help safe­guard their human rights. It is not meant to train you in inves­tiga­tive law enforce­ment tech­niques or in con­duct­ing a crim­i­nal pros­e­cu­tion, although law enforce­ment and Crown Counsel/Attorneys may ben­e­fit from the infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed in this course.

B.C.‘s Office to Combat Trafficking in Persons

This online course was devel­oped and updat­ed by B.C.’s Office to Com­bat Traf­fick­ing in Per­sons (OCTIP), Com­mu­ni­ty Safe­ty and Crime Pre­ven­tion Branch, Min­istry of Pub­lic Safe­ty and Solic­i­tor Gen­er­al. OCTIP’s man­date is to:

• Sup­port com­mu­ni­ties in build­ing local capac­i­ty to address human trafficking.
• Raise aware­ness and pro­vide train­ing and edu­ca­tion about human traf­fick­ing in B.C. and Canada.
• Iden­ti­fy gaps and bar­ri­ers in ser­vices, poli­cies, and leg­is­la­tion that impede traf­ficked per­sons’ inter­na­tion­al­ly-pro­tect­ed human rights.
• Con­tribute to nation­al and inter­na­tion­al efforts to com­bat human trafficking.