Abstract

Two events in 2014 – Boko Haram’s abduction of 276 of the threat or use of force or other forms Chibok schoolgirls in Nigeria and the rape, forced of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of decep- marriage and genocide of the Yazidis by the Islamic tion, of the abuse of power or of a position of State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, in Iraq – put the issue vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of of human trafficking in conflict firmly on the inter- payments or benefits to achieve the consent national agenda. In September 2015, United Nations of a person having control over another member states adopted Sustainable Development person, for the purpose of exploitation. Goal 8.7, which pledged to end all forms of human trafficking, and the intersection between the crime The forms of human trafficking in a conflict and conflict has been raised at the UN Security setting cover a wide range of exploitative acts (see Council (UNSC) on a number of occasions. Figure 1), which has created substantial ambiguity In November 2018, the UNSC ‘reiterated its deep for policymakers, humanitarian and development concern’ regarding the lack of progress in combat- practitioners and law-enforcement