VULNERABILITY

VULNERABILITY

The EU Directive 36/2011 underlines the importance of two fundamental concepts:
  • Irrelevance of consent (art. 2 paragraph 4): the consent of the victim of trafficking in human beings to exploitation has been defined as irrelevant
  • Vulnerability position (art.2 paragraph 2): the situation of a person who has no other effective and acceptable choice than living into the abuse, he is the victim of.