Human Trafficking-Domestic Servitude

Human trafficking is viewed as modern day slave exchange. It is a genuine crime under both global and national legal systems. It opens casualties to economic exploitation with a significant number of them being women and children less than 18 years old years. It is essential to know the way that human trafficking has raised critical human rights issues, particularly concerning women and children as stakeholders are beginning to reexamine their way to deal with this societal issue. Human trafficking has emerged as the third greatest criminal industry by drug trafficking and illicit arms. The human trafficking industry has helped in the expansion of different crimes, such as child abuse, prostitution and violence against women. With the assistance of existing research, this paper seeks to explain the different measurements of human trafficking and how it has influenced the general public at the individual, national and global level. The paper offers a few proposals with regards to the most ideal route concerning managing the issue of the current slave trade.

In the book, the Slave Next Door, Bales and Soodalter discuss a number of issues about human trafficking. Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. The first issue that worry me most is slavery. The second-highest number of human trafficking victims are in the United States are domestic slaves. The underlying characteristics of domestic slavery is total control of mind and body. This normally involves threats and violence. There is a large amount of violence and abuse involved in sex slavery, many times leading to death. Globalization seems to have played a major role in the rise of sex slavery and the sex trade but has also played major roles in efforts to stop it. I believe that the buying, molesting, selling, trading, mistreating, using, abusing, sex trafficking and other kind of trafficking of human beings

Human Trafficking is a horrendous crime that takes advantage of people through the illegal trading of human beings for purposes of forced labor, and commercial sexual/child exploitation. Traffickers tend to prey on the vulnerable, those who want a better life, have little or no employment opportunities, very unstable, and have a history of sexual abuse. With this being popular in society, anyone can easily become a victim. By being an undocumented immigrant, runaway and homeless youth, and a victim of trauma and abuse, you have already put a target on your back. The most popular victims are the undocumented immigrants due to the lack of legal status, language barriers, limited employment options, and social isolation. ("The Victims.")

In the What We Investigate article “Human Trafficking/ Involuntary Servitude”, the FBI describes human trafficking and explains the action they have taken to improve the issue. This article states that human trafficking is the “third-largest criminal activity in the world...and has no demographic restriction” (“Involuntary Servitude” par. 1). This information shows that human trafficking is a huge issue that needs to be solved. The FBI then explains the actions made to prevent human trafficking, such as the Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team that strives to build enforcements and enhance access to help and the 2000 Trafficking Victims Protection Acts which gives victims a temporary citizenship in the U.S. (“Involuntary Servitude” par. 5). The

Human trafficking is a serious issue in the United States that has been going on for many years; human trafficking is the same as slavery. There are a lot of human rights issues that are being violated through this topic. According to Walker and Hunt (2009), human trafficking is described as, “the recruitment, harboring, transporting, supplying, or obtaining a person for labor or services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of involuntary servitude or slavery” (p. 4). The problem with human trafficking is that the traffickers are either bringing people from outside of the country or use people from the United States and are making a profit out of them.

Around the world human trafficking happens around us without us noticing or realising what is happening. Modern-day slavery exists around the world and it is known today as human trafficking or trafficking in persons.

Imagine being able to own a business and make nothing but profit. One of the types of

To make matters worse, it is the trafficking system that has the lives of kids of male and females, but mostly young kids and grown females whose life may’ve been turned upside down. Human Trafficking is an illegal way of trade of human beings for slavery, sex, and forced labor. As this happens all around the world even the U.S. It is mostly known as slavery. Human trafficking is taking a person by force, abduction, scam/frauds. Like becoming a model which might be a scam and is one way leading into abduction. The abuse of power is an position of achieving and choosing the person of having control over them. For an example. Exploitation can be prostitution or have other types like sexual exploitation, being forced into labor,

“Speak out on behalf of the voiceless, and for the rights of all who are vulnerable. Speak out in order to judge with righteousness and to defend the needy and the poor.” This quote is from Proverbs 31:8-10 and is my motivation for fighting against human trafficking. When I first became involved in anti-trafficking efforts I wasn’t sure where it was going to lead me. Around 80% of organizations that work with human trafficking deal solely in awareness raising, which is extremely important. However, I soon realized that simply being knowledgeable about an issue, exclusively educating others will not end human trafficking, nor protect those who are vulnerable or gain justice for the exploited. My goal is to work internationally combating human trafficking and sexual exploitation primarily through legislation, with a focus on Southeast Asia.

show that 1 in 3 of runaway children will be approached by a trafficker within

“It’s impossible to protect all girls from guys like I was, because that’s what we do. We eat, drink and sleep, thinking of ways to trick young girls into doing what we want them to do” (Knapp). This chilling quote from a short documentary is the exact words from an ex-pimp. Human trafficking, as defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary is “organized criminal activity in which human beings are treated as possessions to be controlled and exploited (as by being forced into prostitution or involuntary labor).” This definition does not cover the ways in which people are brought into this chaos; persuasion, some forced, and some even grow up in that environment. Most Americans know it as is international problem that does not affect them; some

Slavery is a modern, pervasive problem. Human trafficking has been found in every state in America (humantrafficking.org). It seems that most Americans likely live within a comfortable drive of someone who is being exploited through human trafficking. There is a growing trend in human trafficking toward sexual exploitation (Bennetts, 2011). The Information Age has helped to create new opportunities for sex trafficking to flourish.

Human trafficking has been dubbed the modern version of slavery as it is the act of taking an individual by force or coercion for some aspect of labour purposes. The phenomenon of human trafficking for sexual exploitation is not a recent one. Human trafficking has historical roots in traditions of worldwide slavery and in debt-bondage in the South East Asian region. In the 20th century, during the periods of the First World War and the Second World War, human trafficking for sexual exploitation grew as ‘comfort women’ were used in Japanese occupied areas in South East Asia. In modern times, globalization has proliferated both human trafficking and sex tourism industries through people’s increased ability to travel further and easier. Human trafficking, as opposed to human smuggling, focuses heavily on the exploitation and violation of those subjected to it. Women, men, and children are all at risk of being trafficked into exploitative work, including sexual labour. On the other hand, sex tourism avoids focusing on its exploitative side and instead engages heavily with global tourism in a lucrative industry. Women prostitutes are the primary contributor to the labour side of sex tourism industries. Prostitution economies, especially in the Global South, thrive on the “exotic Third World sex workers”.

We often hear the saying “Love the women in your life.” After all, they are the ones who birthed us, nurtured us, allow us to have children of our own to care for, and etc. However, they are also the main target for the human trafficking industry of sexual exploitation. Human sex trafficking can date back to thousands of years ago, but the most known period of human trafficking were portrayed during African slave trade (Oster). That being said, alongside the forced labor included among enslavement, the second most popular form of human trafficking is sexual exploitation, mainly among women and children (Deshpande and Nour). As stated above, figure 1 proves that sexual exploitation remains to be one

More specifically then human trafficking, there is child trafficking. Child trafficking is today’s version of slavery that involves transferring a child for the purpose of abuse or illegal activities. According to the U.S. Department of State, “Child/Human Trafficking is one of the fastest growing crimes in the world and is the world’s second largest criminal enterprise, after drugs. Child trafficking happens in every single country, including the United States. When people think of trafficking of people, most think of women, but children are also being sold as slaves all across the world. Children who are most likely to become victims are those who come from low income homes, have limited access to education and are