Of false promises of employment and their relationship with trafficking in human beings, before the Covid-19 pandemic.

Abstract

There is a problem that has been afflicting thousands of people for centuries – the vast majority from human groups – which is human trafficking. In addition to the victims' pension, unemployment, social inequality, the prospect of improvement, financial instability and political inconstancy contribute to more becoming victims of causes.Since mid-March 2020, a serious problem arising from the COVID-19 pandemic has been noticed - which in addition to thousands of deaths has led to poverty - due to the closing of jobs and the consequent increase in unemployment. So, obviously, such a social problem will significantly increase the possibility of more people becoming victims of human traffickers when they are deceived by false promises of employment.This article seeks not only to prevent those who can be misled, but also to sensitize the Authorities involved in the investigation of the specific case that, behind a mere empty promise of employment, there may be the scope of the practice of crimes. For that, we used the investigation of factual and real situations of the concrete world and we used the analysis of jurisprudence, doctrinal explanations and the appreciation of concrete data; aiming to demonstrate the need to be aware of the false promises of employment that will appear, which may be masked and which will have the sole purpose of exploiting people for the trafficking of human beings.