The Global Issue Of Human Trafficking

The issue at hand in this article is the global extent of human trafficking, and particularly the trafficking of women. This issue encompasses various aspects of the different political systems internationally due to varying policies as it pertains to border control and as to how various political systems abroad deal with human trafficking. It also encompasses the effects of human trafficking on global economic systems along and how super national organizations deal with human trafficking.

The ramifications of the issues of human trafficking (particularly the trafficking of women) are gargantuan. The immensity of these ramifications can be seen in the sheer size of global human trafficking market. Around 21 million according to UNICEF USA are victims of

Economically, the mere existence of human trafficking on a global scale violates the basic principle and benefits of a global, free market economy. Human trafficking causes a significant amount of lost labor due to its extent and magnitude on a global scale. This in turn, causes for a substantial loss in assets both human and social capital, due to the enormous amount of labor lost from the global market. This human and social capital allows for the free market economy to survive and flourish; but by this significant amount of human and social capital being lost, it severely cripples the global economy. The fashion as to how labor is lost can be seen in the methods as to how factory workers are trafficked, most commonly male factory workers. A very common method is a trafficker approaching a factory worker, who is often living on a paycheck to paycheck basis, and asks them if they are willing to quit their job (a factory benefiting the local economy) for a job which pays them twice as much per-say. The factory worker answers with an affirmative yes, but instead, rather than getting a better job opportunity