Human trafficking affects over 161 countries worldwide. Over 20 million men, women and children are trafficked for sex or labor around the world. Traffickers move their victims within their own countries and across international borders if it represents a profitable gain. Victims of sexual trafficking are usually people found in extreme circumstances such as homelessness, runaways, refugees, tourists, kidnap victims and drug addicts. Traffickers also referred to as pimps, exploit the most vulnerable while promising lucrative gain for the victims such as marriage, education, work, money or an overall better quality of life.
We are living in a world where one person has an absolute power over another. The groundless trade of human beings in today’s world shows a deteriorated state of affairs which confirms that the greatest moral challenge facing the globe today is human trafficking. It refers to illegal sale or trade of people for sexual abuse or forced labor through coercion or abducting people. Our world is facing from many obstacles created by natural and manmade disasters which further results in problems in every country’s economy and social welfare of every person is jeopardized and one of the problems faced by majority of the nations of this world due to economic downfall is human trafficking. It is one of the most atrocious human rights infringements commonly
According to Urbanministry.org (n.d.), “Human trafficking -- the sale, transport and profit from human beings who are forced to work for others -- is the modern equivalent of slavery. Against their will, millions of people around the world are forced to work for the profit of others, for example by begging, prostitution, involuntary servitude, working in sweatshops - even becoming child soldiers” (Human Trafficking: Definition, Prevalence, and Causes). Human trafficking continues to occur in virtually every country in the world. Human trafficking is known as modern day slavery and is a worldwide problem because other countries have weak laws where human trafficking flourishes. In addition, policies developed to combat human trafficking
The Reality of Human Sex Trafficking Human sex trafficking has become a major international issue. Millions of people are abducted, transported, and exploited for money all over the world. The article “Rescued from Sex Slavery” published by CBS Broadcasting goes into detail about the world of sex slavery. In the article it talks about three different girls that were captured as sex slaves. 48 Hours correspondent Peter Van Sant traveled to Romania to pose as a sex trafficker.
Legalize It Every year in America billions of dollars are made illegally, thousands of people are imprisoned, and even more people lose their lives to drugs. On a broad level, illegal drugs ruin whole communities by perpetuating the disease of addiction and engulfing neighborhoods in the gang violence that inevitably comes with illegal drug trafficking. On a more personal level, illegal drugs ruin lives by making people turn their backs on loved ones and causing them to throw away their dreams. Most people agree that a problem that is this pervasive and expansive must be dealt with, but few can agree on a solution. There is only one practical solution.
Sex trafficking is a much more serious crime than people think it is – a business of female empowerment that sell sexual services in exchange for money – when, however, it is an underground market of enslaved women forced into unwilling intercourse. Prostitution starts out at a fairly young age – ages 11-14 – where pimps use social media networks and blogs to befriend vulnerably young women. They’ll use seducing woos and flaunts to lure these girls in, comforting them with protection & care and buying them tangible desires. Seeing the point of view on sex trafficking from a prostitute as a victim – rather than a sex-worker – is one factor that change my view on sex trafficking. In the film, a turned-prostitute provides their life story as a former prostitute and how they were able to escape the slavery of sex trafficking.
Prof. P April 28, 2011 Modern Day Slavery in Mexico Mexico is a large source, transit, and destination country for persons trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. Groups considered most vulnerable to human trafficking in Mexico include women and children, indigenous persons, and undocumented migrants. A significant number of Mexican women, girls, and boys are trafficked within the country for commercial sexual exploitation, lured by false job offers from poor rural regions to urban, border, and tourist areas. According to the government, more than 20,000 Mexican children (Report, 2009) are victims of sex trafficking every year, especially in tourist and border areas. This is a very serious issue and it is closer to home than we may think, a student-run news service called Cronkite News Service at the Arizona State University, shed the national spotlight on a new immigration problem plaguing the desert border towns of Arizona: so called “rape trees,” trees on the U.S. side of the border littered with women’s undergarments.
Causes and effects of human trafficking Causes and effects of human trafficking, no doubt, can be quite devastating to the socio-economic developing of any country where the nefarious scourge rages and that is more rampant in the poor nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Which way one looks at it, apparently traffic or young African women and children to Europe and the Middle East for commercial sexual exploitation is a very great phenomenon. They are often lured by promises of steady employment as shopkeepers, housemaids, seamstress, nannies or hotel service positions and attendants in the major European countries and are eventually forced into prostitution on getting to the destination. Many of these unfortunate victims of human trafficking in most of the cases may not be aware that they will be forced into commercial sex trade or their travel documents particularly passports will be seized or that would have to pay a very huge debt if they eventually renege have to pay and subject to brutal beatings and serious bodily harm if the income they bring to the their captives is inadequate. The very highly sensitive diabolical network, mostly dominated by the Nigerian organized crime kingpins have also extended their nefarious operations into Benin Republic, Togo, Guinea, Mali, and presently to most of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries.
Trafficking in persons generates about 32 billion dollars a year. According the the United Nations Human Rights Council, human trafficking not only puts victims in great danger, but it also embodies many facets of human rights abuses (9). Due to a weak surveillance of borders, neighboring countries often serve as destinations for trafficked women and children .Victims of trafficking are frequently lured away by fraud – promise of a better life, often in a different country. They are then controlled physically, emotionally and financially. Escape is difficult for the victims of trafficking because victims are “invisible”.
Men are also victimized into emigrating and selling their labor force. Young African women and children are being sent to Europe and the Middle East for commercial sex exploitation. It’s unfortunately a very common method of taking victims from their homeland to a place that they know nothing about, making them now even more isolated and lost. They are often misled by false promises of steady employment as “housemaids, shopkeepers, seamstresses, nannies or hotel service positions and attendants in the major European countries and are eventually forced into prostitution on getting to the destination” (Africa Files – Ade Adenekan). These unfortunate victims have their passports and other documents that would otherwise allow them to travel are taken once they arrive in their destination area so they have no chance of getting on the next plane, boat, or car to get back home.