Trafficking
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Trafficking may refer to:
- Ad trafficking, the process of supplying campaign creative materials and tracking links to publishers through an ad servingAd servingAd serving describes the technology and service that places advertisements on web sites. Ad serving technology companies provide software to web sites and advertisers to serve ads, count them, choose the ads that will make the website or advertiser most money, and monitor progress of different...
platform - Arms trafficking, the smuggling of contraband weapons or ammunition
- Human traffickingHuman traffickingHuman trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of reproductive slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor, or a modern-day form of slavery...
, the tricking or luring of people away from their homeland to work under exploitative conditions elsewhere - Drug traffickingIllegal drug tradeThe illegal drug trade is a global black market, dedicated to cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of those substances which are subject to drug prohibition laws. Most jurisdictions prohibit trade, except under license, of many types of drugs by drug prohibition laws.A UN report said the...
, the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of illegal drugs - Protein traffickingProtein targetingProtein targeting or protein sorting is the mechanism by which a cell transports proteins to the appropriate positions in the cell or outside of it. Sorting targets can be the inner space of an organelle, any of several interior membranes, the cell's outer membrane, or its exterior via secretion...
, the mechanism by which a cell transports proteins to appropriate positions