A Survivor Of Human Trafficking

2012 Human Trafficking “It is estimated that over 27 million slaves exist all over the world today” (Yea 3). This is the greatest amount of slaves in any point in history. Despite efforts from all over the world, human trafficking has become more prevalent overtime and a majority of the population is unaware. Because it is a major global problem in the world today, it is important to be aware of basic facts, prevention, protection and the prosecution of human trafficking. Human trafficking is…

ended, never to return, they go back and sneak into our communities in severe forms by human trafficking crimes. When humanity eliminated the phenomenon of human slavery, it returned in different pictures and forms, combining them enslaving people, through the recruitment, transportation, transfer of people by force and threat, and using and exploiting them in different ways. Among the victims of human trafficking crimes, there are those who are subjected to sexual exploitation, labor exploitation…

A challenge that I took interest in is the horrifying problem that women and young girls face as victims of human trafficking and sex slavery. Women and young girls make up 98% of victims of trafficking for exploitation. Human trafficking and sex slavery is a form of modern slavery, in which traffickers profit from the control and exploitation of others. It is a multi-billion industry. Traffickers use control of others for the purpose of engaging in sexual activities and or forcing others to provide…

An Invisible Issue: Human Trafficking Many people know the basics of what human trafficking is but what they don’t know is how often it occurs. People do not spend time thinking about how many people human trafficking affects or how to stop it. Human trafficking is an issue that is highly ignored. Many people believe that the selling of people into slavery is not a problem in America or not a big problem at all. The truth is that there are large amounts of human trafficking happening all over the…

How would you feel to know that you just paid money for you to be human smuggled and or trafficked? Thinking that you are coming to the United States to start a land of opportunity. Say you are in another country answering a job ad for the United States and to find out when you get here, it’s a sick joke. Unfortunately, the issue of human smuggling and trafficking is a sick game that ruins the lives of many innocent women and it’s going to take a strong investigation to put a stop to those men that…

“My name is Holly Austin Smith, and I am a survivor of Human Trafficking. When I was fourteen years old, I ran away from home with a man I had met at a shopping mall in Ocean County, New Jersey. After exchanging numbers, this man called at night while my unknowing parents watched television in the living room. We talked more than once. Convincing me to runaway with him was not an overnight accomplishment. He took his time. He got to know me. He analyzed my troubles, and he asked me my dreams. I wanted…

Out of the thousands of people that have been human trafficking victims each year, only an insignificant amount of them is actually reported. Imagine being in 8th grade. Having all sorts of hopes and dreams. Now flash forward to dreams being taken away by a pimp that lures people into human trafficking. In short, this is true for Holly Austin Smith, a survivor of human trafficking. The punishment for the pimps that ruin the lives of these young girls is not severe. Therefore, there is not much…

The Human Trafficking Epidemic Introduction Dai is a victim of human trafficking. She became a victim when she met a military man and fell in love. He then convinced her to to move to a remote location with him. She agreed and once she got there, she was beaten and raped. She was eventually able to escape, but the man had taken all of her forms of identification. This meant that she was unable to really get any help or start a new life. From there she became a street walker to help make money so…

Human trafficking brings in billions of dollars into the U.S and all around the world. “The prime motive for such outrageous abuse is simple: money. In this $12 billion global business just one woman trafficked into the industrialized world can net her captors an average $67,000 a year” (Baird 2007). The laws around human trafficking are not strict and vary depending on what country it is happening in. Human trafficking is not something that is strictly foreign, it…

Modern Human Trafficking Human trafficking is defined as recruitment, concealing and transporting of individuals involuntarily for labor and sexual needs under fraudulent and forceful means (“Fact Sheet”). Modern day human trafficking first became a focus in 1994 when monitoring began. Human trafficking encompasses more individuals in slavery today then any previous time in history, with about 2.4 million trafficked globally (“Fact Sheet”). Human trafficking involves both the sex and labor trafficking…