Human trafficking affects everyone. Even if someone does not actually deal with the trafficking itself. Everything from where your food comes from and packaged, the cotton in your clothes, and how the economy is effected. Many girls are taken from their families and forced into slavery, normally with debt. Siri, a fourteen year old girl tells her story. She was approached by a woman who promised her a good job with lots of money. The woman gave $2000 to her family in what she said was an advance. This money was a whole year 's income to the family so they agreed. Then she is sold to a brothel for $4000. When she gets there her new pimp is the first of many to rape her. She escapes after a short time, but she is found by a police officer who …show more content…
In countries with poor economies many people look for a way out. Sometimes the smugglers will actually enslave the people that come to them for help, other times they have threats against the person’s family to control them into working. Families with financial trouble will send their child to another country to make money and send some back. A young boy, Chen, got smuggled out of China at the age of fourteen. He said to a reporter "It 's slavery because the children don 't have a choice," (Kotlowitz par. 33) What he meant by this was that if the kids stopped working and doing what they were told to do their families would be hurt or killed. So if they wanted to keep their family safe they had no choice but to work. If they can not pay for the trip they are forced to work and give their earnings to whoever brought them over. This article written by Peter Ford explains briefly what happens to people smuggled across borders, “they are "stripped of their documents, don 't speak the language, and are usually held in captivity or under psychological coercion," according to Ms. Kanics. Working as prostitutes, in sweatshops, on farms, or on building sites, they are forced to give their earnings to smuggling rings to repay them for the trip.” (Ford par. 12) They have no choice other than to listen to what the smugglers tell them to do. Going to the law enforcement is not an option for them, because …show more content…
When they do get caught; however, many people believe that the punishment is not severe enough. Another claim made by an article is that “buyers of trafficked children should receive punishment as human traffickers do.” (how to cite a source without an author 's name) The theory is that if there is no one to buy the people they will no longer be sold. As of right now there is no law to punish purchasers. In The United States accused Russia and China of human trafficking it says “China condones or fails to prosecute forced labor in numerous manufacturing industries and allows the trafficking of women for domestic servitude, forced marriage and prostitution.” (Gearan par. 7) Not only do they allow people to be bought without punishment, but they also fail to punish those that enslave other
Human trafficking victims can be forced to do different things such as physical labor and prostitution. The things that usually are key to trafficking are that the victims are vulnerable to anything that involves a better life or involving moving into the U.S. The main reason is that they suffer from poverty; the victims want to help their family with money and are open to whatever way there is to get money. In addition, many in Mexico risk their lives to come to the U.S. hoping that they can find work. They go through parts of Mexico that are considered to have the most violence with drugs, cartels and trafficking are then most often caught by the cartels and have no other choice but to be a slave working to pay off their “debt” that they have to the cartels. Also the traffickers use everything because the victims are vulnerable, to control the victims often the victims are being belittled by their traffickers, many people that suffered sometimes tell...
Slavery is one of the issues that was, is and has been a major concern in the world. The nature of contemporary slavery is unknown, but estimates show that there are millions of victims of slavery across the globe. Slavery covers a wide variety of human rights violations such as sexual mutilation of men, women and children, child prostitution, sale of orphans, child pornography and many others. On the other hand, human trafficking is an area of concern that involves recruiting, transporting, buying or selling a person by means of force or fraud for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation or forced labor. Human trafficking deprives the victims of their human rights, and is one of the causes for the spread of sexually transmitted diseases
Many Chinese (women and children) are recruited by false promises of employment and are later coerced into prostitution or forced labor. Children are sometimes recruited by traffickers who promise their parents that their children can send remittances back home. In poorer areas, most trafficked women are sold as wives to old and disabled unmarried men. In richer areas, most trafficked women are sold to commercial sex businesses, hair salons, massage parlors and bathhouses. Chinese children are also kidnapped and sold for adoption. (www.humantraffickin.org).
“Smuggling implies a contractual relationship between those seeking to leave a country and those acting as agents to assist their client with entry to another country. Usually, the relationship ends once the migrants have arrived at their destination and have paid their legal fees. Illegal immigrants are individuals who travel to another country to seek employment, without possessing proper documentation. They may or may not have been smuggled. Human Trafficking, on the other hand, is a business involving coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power as well as abuse of vulnerability of women and children for purposes of forced labor or prostitution. It is only the trafficker who gains.” (Clark, Michele A. "Human Trafficking Casts Shadow on Globalization”)
Sex trafficking is a human right issue which breaks the slavery violation in the UDHR. It 's going on in many countries like Thailand and is happening to young children. This should be stopped because its inhuman and no child or person should have to go through it.
What is human trafficking? Human trafficking, according the dictionary.com’s definition, is the illegal movement of people, typically for the purposes of forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation. However there are many different forms of human trafficking and one that has caught my eye is the form called sex trafficking. This is very important because many young teenage girls around my age are affected by it the most and they grow up being a sex slave. Although majority of the victims are young girls, human trafficking affects everyone: male, female, young, and old. There are very few people out here hearing their cry. We are very blind to this topic in the United States because its not very well-known and also because it’s such a big
Amid a storm of controversies including gay marriage, state data hacking, and a heated debate on the Confederate Flag, South Carolina’s media has paid little attention to the pressing issue of human trafficking. Perhaps this is due to the viewpoint of many Americans that human trafficking is a third world problem far removed from them and the people that they care about (Archer). This simply leaves them unconcerned, and the media cannot sell topics that people are not upset or in an uproar over. However America, including South Carolina, is not exempt from this type of human rights abuse. Without proper recognition of the importance and prevalence of this issue from the general public, human trafficking cannot be solved even when the government takes combative action. This is the case of South Carolina legislators, who in November 2012, had House Bill 3757 signed by Governor Nikki Haley to go into effect on December 15th, 2012 (Conley). House Bill 3757 is one of the most promising pieces of anti-human trafficking legislation ever turned into law with many beneficial effects and ideas, but even it is not without its issues and areas for potential improvements.
violence, and other types of domestic slavery. AIDS and many other diseases are also spread because of this issue. There is absolutely nothing positive that could ever come from human trafficking. Together citizens and authorities of government can combat this problem with the tools of education and government funding.
In this paragraph I am going to tell you how human trafficking works. First the people who are trafficked are often those who are in debt or living in poverty. Traffickers exploit these types of situations, and trick these individuals into believing that they will sponsor them to get a good paying job somewhere abroad. Next, upon arrival to the destination, these individuals are often shocked to realize that they are not given the work that they were promised and instead, are forced to work in conditions that they did not agree to. Traffickers also take away passports and any other means of identification of these people so that the police will not be able to help them. Finally, victims are often told that they must now work until they pay back their debt, and can also be sold to va...
Human trafficking, a form of modern day slavery, affects more people than you could imagine. The United States is known for freedom, human rights, and the pursuit of happiness; however, there are many victims of human trafficking that have been stripped of their rights and freedoms. The Victims of Trafficking andViolence Protection Act (VTVPA) of 2000 defines human trafficking as, the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery (Kotrola 8). Human trafficking is a devastating issue many Americans have problems addressing;
One of the main causes of human trafficking is vulnerability. For example, children are more vulnerable to trafficking because of their lack of understanding and experience. Additionally, in certain societies, women are less empowered than men thus resulting in gender inequality both at home and in the workplace. Gender inequality then leads to easy exploitation through the use of force or threats. Human trafficking can be curbed by combating the underlying causes that make people vulnerable.
The effect that trafficking has on their victims is the same effect that people have when they were raped, sexually harassed, etc. People who were trafficked tend to suffer from serious health problems including physical health, reproductive health and mental health problems. Mostly women but men too tend to go into physical exhaustion and become victims of unwanted touching, grabbing, oral sex, anal sex, etc. Mental wise the victim might have many emotional effects, severe stress and depression.
Human trafficking is a form of slavery, forcing victims to engage in sexual activities and labors against their will. These activities can be taken place through force, fraud, or constraint. Human trafficking is not just affecting one group of people, it is a worldwide issue, affecting all different ages, genders, ethnicities, and socio-economic backgrounds. Human trafficking is such an immense problem, apprehending the true size, knowing how to help, and how to keep the issue from reoccurring. Human trafficking is and is still becoming such a serious issue that something needs to be done about.
Several crimes in the United States slip into the dark; never noticed and go without justification and punishment annually. One of these unknown crimes is called human trafficking. Human trafficking is the illegal movement of people against their will and rights. Human trafficking is a serious crime that many people are unaware of; it secretly takes place in the United States; it secretly ruins many lives; it secretly goes by to be never discovered or punished by government officials.
Trafficking victims have been through stop and several country where there are exploited and sold resold. When they make the stop they are beaten and told they have to work they debt off. Trafficking take advantage of the fact it because it difficult to disrupt. It hard trying to identify a victim of human trafficking before the force of manual labor has taken placed ( Kara, 2011, p.68).