Factors of Human Trafficking

FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING

The root causes of trafficking are various and often differ from one country to another. Trafficking is a complex, multi-level phenomenon that is often influenced by social, economic, cultural and other factors. Many of these factors are specific to individual trafficking patterns and to the countries in which they occur. There are, however, many factors that tend to be common to trafficking in general or found in a wide range of different regions, patterns or cases. These are the causes that are discussed in this report.

Reasons behind trafficking in persons

I. Inefficient border security

II. Poverty

III. Lack of job opportunities (unemployment)

IV. Non-institutional credit systems

V. Inefficiency of government

VI. Lack of education and awareness

VII. Poor economic condition

VIII. Political instability

IX. Social conflicts

X. Problems related to use of advanced technologies

XI. Illiteracy

I. Inefficient border security:

Much of human trafficking occurs across borders. Thus, border control authorities are expected to play an important role in preventing and curbing transnational trafficking and migrant smuggling. Efficient border security would provide a great impetus to the campaign against human trafficking. However, the technical capacity of border control agencies to detect and prevent trafficking is often inadequate and needs to be improved. For instance, at border crossings in many countries, there are no telecommunication facilities or even manual recordkeeping of the crossing of commercial carriers. Border control agencies and border police lack staff, infrastructure and funding. Trafficking networks benefit from this situation by transporting groups across borders through inacce...

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...mate use of physical force therein erosion of legitimate authority to make collective decisions an inability to provide public services an inability to interact with other states as a full member of the international community.

Political instability can make people vulnerable to being trafficked. War, and civil cause instability that traffickers can use to their advantage. Chaos, mass migration and the separation of family units make people vulnerable to kidnap for the purposes of trafficking. Theses situations can equally encourage potential victims to agree to themselves or family members being taken elsewhere on the promise of safety and a life with more stability.

It is due to political instability that people, in search of better financial standards turn to traffickers , oblivious to the fact that they are indeed the next victims of human trafficking.