The Actions That Need To Be Taken: Human Trafficking

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The Actions That Need To Be Taken: Human Trafficking According to the United Nations, thousands of people are smuggled across borders worldwide, and it now has reached an estimated 800,000 victims (“Human Trafficking Statistics”). By letting this continue, the numbers will only grow and continue to keep growing. Of the 600,000 to 800,000 men, women, and children who have been trafficked across international borders each year, approximately 80 percent are women and girls (“End of Human Trafficking Now”). The United Nations should be more proactive in both preventing and eliminating human trafficking because 161 out of 192 countries are involved with human trafficking (“Human Trafficking Statistics”) and the leaders of every country need to come together to end this phenomenon. Human trafficking has existed in some way, shape, or form throughout history. The first known instances were in slavery, when Americans forced Africans to do manual labor against their own will. Slavery is unconstitutional and completely unfair and that is why it was finally abolished, so what makes human trafficking any different? Both slavery and human trafficking involve the buying and selling of people against their will as if they are some kind of property and both of them definitely take advantage of people. It doesn’t make much sense that slavery was abolished, but human trafficking still exists. Everybody can agree that this is completely wrong, why is it still going on then? The United Nations needs to all come together to help stop this phenomenon. If they do not do something soon this will grow to an even bigger problem than it already is. This world has already seen how slavery happened. All of us have been through some type of ... ... middle of paper ... ...t? Works Cited "Texas enacts law to aid human-trafficking victims." The Christian Century 126.19(2009): 17. General OneFile. Web. 3 Feb. 2010. . "Human Trafficking Rises in Zambia." New Times [Kigali, Rwanda] 11 Jan. 2010. General OneFile. Web. 3 Feb. 2010. . Seelke, Clare Ribando, and Alison Siskin. "Trafficking in persons: U.S. policy and issues for congress." Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs. Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs, 2008. General OneFile. Web. 3 Feb. 2010. . 'Human Trafficking Statisitcs." BibleKnowledge.com. 29 Setember 2009. 31 Jan. 2010

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