human trafficking

Trafficking in persons is a serious crime and a grave violation of human rights. Every year, thousands of men, women and children fall into human trafficking. It is said that 12.3 million people are trafficked worldwide. On average, only 1 person is convicted for every 800 trafficking cases worldwide (All material © 2014).

Human Trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings for commercial sexual exploitation or forced labor. During the medieval times human trafficking was introduced to the world, Anyone could have been a victim. Most of the victims are undocumented or were illegally residing in the US. That doesn’t exclude US citizens from becoming victims. The reason attackers went for undocumented citizens were because no one will go to the authorities looking for them. Human trafficking deals with things like sex slaves, modern-day slavery, and sweat shops. Many of the victims of Human Trafficking were women and young girls. These women were forced into being sex slaves, the younger girls were are forced into labor. Most of the time attackers take women and young girls because it is usually easier to kidnap them rather than men and boys. It is said to say, There about 161 countries affected by this epidemic.

For some people Human Trafficking is a business, they don’t feel that they are doing anything wrong . They actually feel they are helping out, and make it their job for their everyday living. Every year the “Human Trafficking industry” makes a profit of about 32 billion dollars worldwide. 15.5 billion is made in industrialized countries, and 9.7 billion is made in Asia. Each Forced Laborer generates on average 13,000 dollars per year. This number comes up to be as much as 67,200 per victim every year that dea...

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...he for brothels there may be trafficked women indicated often by a bundle of men arriving waiting to have sex and leaving the premises after their done. Human trafficking can be stop by people taking it more seriously and looking out for each other. Sometimes the need to relocate and the threat of trafficking can emerge very suddenly anywhere at any time. In the middle of 2006, during the armed conflict in Lebanon, the US became aware that traffickers were targeting about 300,000 domestic workers from Sri Lanka, Ethiopia and the Philippines who were left behind when their foreign employers were evacuated. Having abruptly lost their livelihoods and official resident status, the people quickly became more vulnerable. As embassies struggled to assist their nationals, trafficking gangs offered alternative options of living (Copyright©2014 UNODC, All Rights Reserved).