LAW No 12011/024 OF 1 4 DEC. 2011
RELATING TO THE FIGHT AGAINST TRAFFICKING INPERSONS AND SLAVERY
The National Assembly deliberated and adopted, the President of the Republic hereby enacts the law set out below:
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# GENERAL PROVISIONS
sEction 1.- This law relates to the fight against trafficking in persons and slavery.
sECtioN 2.- For the purpose of this law, the following definitions shall apply:
a) A person: human being of either sex regardless of age;
b) Trafficking in persons: the fact of promotingorensuring the movement of a person inside or outside Camerõan in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or ther matejial benefit of whatever nature: tar.at Gen. //
c) Slavery in persons: defined as therecritmer transfer, LA REPUE accommodation or reception of persons for exploitation, through threat, the use of force or other forms of coercion, kidnapping, fraud, deception, abuse of authority or taking advantage of a state of vulnerability or through offer or acceptance of benefits to obtain the consent of a person having authority over the victim;
d) Exploitation of persons: shall include, at least, the exploitation or promotion of prostitution of persons, or any other forms of sexual exploitation, exploitation of labour, or forced labour, slavery or practices similar to slavery, serfdom or the removal or organs;
e) The consent of the person is void: where acts of violence were committed on the victim himself or on persons having legal or customary custody over him;
f) Debt bondage of persons: the fact of pledging a person as security before a creditor of a loan or a debt for purposes of exploitation.
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# OFFENCES AND PUNISHMENT
SEctioN 3.- (1) Whoever subjects a person to debt bondage shall be punished with imprisonment for from 5 (five) to 10 (ten) years and a fine of from 10 000 (ten thousand) to 500 000 (five hundred thousand) CFA francs.
(2) The penalties provided for in Section 3 (1) above shall be doubled where the offender is either an ascendant, a guardiaşugr a DU Repblice RE person having even customary custody over the victim. C (3 Whoever boards a person in debt boddgg shall pnishedhment al 10000 (ten thousand) to 1 000 00 (one million) CFA francs the Republia
SEctioN 4.- Whoever engages even occasionally in the practice of trafficking in persons or slavery shall be punished with imprisonment of from 10 (ten) to 20 (twenty) years and with fine of from 50 000 (fifty thousand) to 1 000 000 (one million) CFA francs.
SECtion 5.- Whoever engages in trafficking in persons and slavery shall be punished with imprisonment for from 15 (fifteen) to 20 (twenty) years and with fine of from 100 000 (one hundred thousand) to 10 000 000 (ten million) CFA francs where:
- the offence is committed against a minor of 15 years;
the perpetrator is a legitimate, natural or adopted ascendant of the victim: