Essay On Human Trafficking

AN ASSESSMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE POTENTIALS OF WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT

Ariel Cheng

21st Century Global Governance: International Systems, Governance, Transnational Issues and Application

February 19, 2014

1. Define the issue and clearly identify its scope, magnitude, and the actors involved.

Human trafficking is a huge issue that involves many violations of human rights. Although its definition may be broad, it is a very serious topic of concern that holds no discrimination in relation country, race, or culture, regarding those it affects. The loss of identify, freedom, and humanity is the huge factor in what makes human trafficking to be a very real and widespread problem. It is said that roughly 2.5 million people will fall under victim of human trafficking under the forms of domestic servitude, forced labor, and sexual exploitation at any given time, and therefore a matter of huge magnitude. Since the United Nations recognize this issue as of global importance, there are many actors involved grabbing for solutions and preventatives of the human trafficking. The UN Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking cites over 127 countries of where victims originate while the exploitation itself happens in 137, and overall, a global network of violations of human rights. Ultimately, it is defined by the Palermo Protocol as:

The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of e...

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...ation will allow the most immediate help and assistance programs to start quickly. should focus on capacity building through resources put in place by the state, the push to help victims who will usually not help themselves, and the importance of cooperation and coordination between the state agencies and law enforcement in order to provide the best system of recovery and prosecution. Although it is mainly the responsibility of the state to reinstate personal autonomy, it should be noted that the main goal is discourage long-term dependency and instead strive for self-sufficiency. Allowing an individual to fall under violence or the threat of violence, and removing personal autonomy is not a matter to take lightly and overall, it should be the upmost burden of the state to get said individual back to self-sufficiency through the types of policies mentioned prior.