What Are the Effects of Human Trafficking?

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What are the effects of Human Trafficking? In the article Cultural perspectives on child trafficking, human rights and social justice: A model for psychologist researches the complex factors involved in child trafficking from a cultural perspective. Every region in the world is affected by some type of human trafficking. According to Chung the heightened visibility of human trafficking, the purpose of this article is fourfold: to present child trafficking within the context of human rights; to discuss child trafficking for sex exploitation from a cultural perspective, using Asian culture as an example; to present child trafficking as it relates to the multiple levels of the abuses of power; and to discuss the role of psychologist in the elimination of human rights violations and the abuse of power by presenting the Multi-level Model of Psychotherapy, Social Justice and Human Rights as a suggestion on how psychologist can work in cultural responsive proactive manner in addressing human rights and social justice issues (85). Globalization has changed many things over the past few years; however, it has increased human trafficking by over 10 times the number of transatlantic slave trade in the 19th century. Human trafficking is such a global issue that it is estimated to be worth over 9.5 billion dollars per year, which makes it the fastest-growing source of profit for organized criminal enterprises worldwide. With human trafficking increasing within every region the International Labor Organization approximated 12.3 million people to an estimate by the US department of State of 4 to 27 million. Most potential victims of trafficking are “thrown in” to prostitution due to the fact of poverty. Trafficking victims accept fraudulent offers of foreign employment, such as, childcare or restaurant work, only to find themselves forced into prostitution in deplorable

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