Human trafficking is emerging as a significant issue in current debates on human rights, international development and contemporary social studies. While the focus remains primarily on sex trafficking, issues such as child jockeys and soldiers, forced labour, slavery, forced marriage, and domestic labour are gaining increasing recognition as contemporary forms of trafficking in persons. Recent academic research and efforts of various local and international human rights, civil society and development organisations have highlighted the urgent need to deal with these practices. This course aims to provide an introduction to the problem of human trafficking and covers a range of related issues including definitions, debates, actors and responses.