Modern Human Trafficking

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Modern Human Trafficking
Slavery was one of the first problems in the field of human rights, causing serious international concern. Yet, despite the universal condemnation, and at sunset of the twentieth century, a practice similar to slavery, remains a serious and pressing problem. Today, under the word "slavery" is subject to a number of human rights violations. In addition to slavery in its traditional sense and the slave trade, these abuses include the sale of children, child prostitution, child pornography, exploitation of child labor, application of genital mutilation of girls, the use of children in armed conflicts, debt bondage, trafficking in persons and human organs, exploitation of prostitution and certain practices under apartheid and colonial regimes. A practice like slavery can be hidden. This makes it difficult to get a clear picture of the scale of modern slavery, as well as the identification of such practices, punishment, or eradication. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that the …show more content…

The consequences are dire. Many of them during military operations killed or maimed, while others have been interrogated, tortured, beaten, or kept as prisoners of war. Unscrupulous dealers to find out that it is possible to obtain large profits at the expense of the delivery of the beating of children in poverty families wealthy people - without any safeguards and controls to ensure the protection of the interests of the child. In such cases, the financial gain as parents and mediators, takes on the character of child trafficking. Traditional slavery as a legalized system of labor was abolished everywhere, but it was not completely eliminated. Still reports of slave markets. Even abolished slavery gives relapses. It can continue as a world - victims and their descendants and the descendants of those who planted slavery long after its formal

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