It is also identified as a high violation of human rights. Today, human trafficking in Indonesia is increasing every year. Many people – especially women and children – have become the victim of this practice. They regularly trafficked into the commercial sex trade. Whether rule of law have been created to eradicate the human trafficking, in contrast, it is still occurring under the carpet.
Human trafficking is similar to slavery labor and reveals people sexually. There are eight major types of trafficking: forced labor, bonded labor, debt bondage, involuntary domestic labor, forced child labor, child soldiers, sex trafficking, and abuse. It affects every country in the world, whether as a country of origin, transit or destination for victims. Bangladesh is mainly a transit country for human trafficking. Trafficking in persons generates about 32 billion dollars a year.
Although governments try to prevent trafficking from happening, trafficking happens every day, everywhere. Governments have established laws to punish trafficking practice and the United Nations also has established a protocol to prevent and to punish trafficking, especially for women and children. The target of trafficking can be anyone, but women and children are the two most common target of trafficking. A lot of women and children are being forced to be prostitutes or slaves. The victims of trafficking are usually from developing countries and are being trafficked to developed countries.
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
Many diamonds are still stained by severe human rights abuses such as forced labor, beatings, torture, and murder. Moreover, environment is also a problem because due to lack of regulations for diamond mining and it wreaked environment of Africa. Consequences of personal actions: Many African countries have civil conflicts because of diamonds. Diamonds intensify civil wars by financing militaries and rebel militias. They fight with each other to control diamond-rich territory.
By examining human trafficking through a distinctive context, it will explain a deeper understanding of human trafficking and offer a prescription for reducing the adverse effects and the efforts to combat human trafficking and the individuals that now suffer such abuses. Human trafficking is an illegal form of modern day slavery. Human beings are not property and they are unfortunately being used for forced labor and prostitution. According to the article, Sex Trafficking of Women and Children in the United States, there is a large amount of victims taken into this life of crime. An estimated 12 million people worldwide are in forced labor, debt bondage, forced child labor, or sexual servitude.
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.
"... the use of a child in sexual activities for remuneration or any other form of consideration. (Source: Optional Child Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child).” The term prostitution means to have sexual intercourse for money, illegal in most places around the world. Since child prostitution is a special sub-category involving children who have yet to obtain the age of majority, the sexual intercourse is also considered rape in most places. The majority of children who find themselves in this vocation were put there by poverty. These children are orphans, homeless, or desperate.
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
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.