Human Trafficking : Good Vs Bad

Every year, the percent of victims that are being trafficked increases. In the article, “56 Little Known Facts about Human Trafficking” by Karin Lehnardt, Lehnardt states, “Nearly 80% of human trafficking is for sex, and 19% is for labor exploitation.” This quote means that almost 80% of human trafficking is for sex and 19% of it is for labor exploitation. With this, nearly 99% of human trafficking is for sex and labor exploitation. In the article, “11 Facts About Human Trafficking”, it states, “According to the U.S. State Department, 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders every year, of which 80% are female and half are children.” This quote states that every year about 80% of female and children are being trafficked across the world.

Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery in which traffickers use fraud or coercion to profit from forcing victims in commercial sex acts or labor services ("Human Trafficking".) It is a market-driven criminal industry that is based on the principles of supply and demand, like drugs or arms trafficking. Many components make children and adults susceptible to human trafficking. Traffickers target vulnerable people for a variety of reasons, including psychological or emotional issues, economic hardship, lack of safety, or political instability. Unfortunately, victims rarely seek help due to language barriers, fear of the traffickers and law enforcement, or fear of potential consequences. Knowing how to identify signs of human trafficking is the first step in pinpointing victims. Additionally, we can assist victims by modifying criminal policy, receiving more state funds, participating in organizations, and raising awareness.

Human Trafficking is the practice of illegally transporting people from their home countries against their will to new ones for the purpose of slavery or sexual exploitation. While it is blatantly obvious that the selling of humans as property is a cruel line work, the society lived in today still promotes human trafficking due to the high demand of cheap goods. People around the world benefit from human trafficking without realizing it. Business buy goods from factories and other businesses that enslave their workers with little to no payment for their work. By doing this, these factories or businesses are able to sell their goods for a cheaper price which attracts more buyers. While Human Traffickers obviously benefit, the victims do not. Enslaved humans receive physical and emotional abuse as they are forced to work. How can we put an end to human trafficking, and how can businesses reap the benefits but not at the cost of forced labor?

Human trafficking has been a controversial issue for many years. There are different types of trafficking, which helps makes it a widely diverse issue. In Thailand, traffickers rely on the poor desperate people of other countries as well as their own to fulfill their needs financially, physically, and emotionally. Thailand has various reasons why they use human trafficking; sex exploitation, forced labor, and obtaining their organs for an organ transplant. Sex exploitation has been used by mainly men for a long time. They choose both women and children to violate, sometimes even men. The prettier the woman is the more she is worth. All men, woman, and children could be forced into labor. This varies from what the owner wants from them. People can also choose to go and work for them because they think this is their only way of making money, but they usually do not see much of it. Finally, others purchase them just for their organs. There are very long waiting lists on some organs, by the time one comes about the person in need of the organ has already passed away. There are a number of steps and reasons that are involved in human trafficking. With all of these issues of; sex exploitations, and forced labor, and organ trafficking, the trafficked can become physically and mentally injured.

Ronald Weitzer states that human sex trafficking is defined as “recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for a commercial sex act.”

When looking for topics to research I wanted to do something that was a prominent problem in my hometown, which was Sex Trafficking (ST). Coming from Houston, Texas, Sex Trafficking is one of the major hubs in the United States. Houston’s main highway I - 10 is the main road used to travel these victims to state lines to get them out of the country. A better definition of sex trafficking is when someone uses force, fraud or coercion to cause a commercial sex act with an adult or cause a minor to commit a commercial sex act. A commercial sex act is a list of things known as prostitution, pornography, and sexual performance done in exchange for any item of value, such as money, drugs, shelter, food, or clothes( United Nations, In the United States alone 14,500 - 17,500 people are trafficked alone in the United States and 46% of it is from Texas. Most cases found on sex trafficking come from Women and Child, but there are a percentage of males that are trafficked, but because the act makes most feel degraded they refuse to report it. The effects it has on victims is indescribable. Many programs were created and people were made available to help victims but still sometimes these victims do not get the closure they need. This topic is important because it is a worldwide social issue that destroys not only the person physically taken into the trafficking but everyone that is involved in saving that person. When choosing these two articles, “Sex Trafficking: Policies, Programs,

In today’s world, people believe that all enslavement or forced labor of any kind has quietly deceased over the years, that all types of enslavement are behind modern societies and totally in the past, yet it has been exactly the opposite. An international office stated, “ Only one out of 100 victims of trafficking is ever rescued. This means around only 24,000 out of the 2.4 million people enduring human trafficking will be spared,” (“Combating Human Trafficking”). Human trafficking is still a very big problem across the world, even in the United States. Human trafficking has only increased over the past two decades. It is also not likely that a person being trafficked is only enduring this for a few months and then is set free; people are victims for multiple years, possibly even decades. Human trafficking is still a serious threat to innocent lives across the planet because rates are increasing, people are stuck in that vicious cycle for years, and it is damaging millions of people everyday.

In conclusion I think that human trafficking is a topic that is not talked about a lot and it need to because is very important its a huge topic back then in the slavery year it was a big topic now all you see in the new is touristy attack or global warming which are very important topics but their not the only topics that are important and need to be heard by the public people need to know that slavery still exists.So what would you do if you were being stripped of your freedom and you were practically a slave what would you think knowing your family or your close friend were a victim and still is a

Slavery may have been abolished more than 100 years ago, but it still exists all around the world. Slavery defined is the subjection of a person to another person; being forced into work. Through the years, countless of battles have been fought and many lives lost to eliminate slavery, yet it still exists in the form of human trafficking. Human trafficking is the trade of humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor or for the extraction of organs or tissues, including surrogacy. Nearly every country in the world is affected by human trafficking. According to the United Nations, over 130 countries are origin, transit or destination

Human trafficking is trading humans for forced labor or sex. Many people force young women, and sometimes young men into trafficking by the use of threat, force, coercion, abduction, or by giving payments or rewards to the victims (Biback). Children as young as age twelve are being trafficked; human trafficking happens everywhere in the world, including the United States. Human trafficking is a social issue because anybody can be forced into it; also, human trafficking can lead to different issues, such as drugs, alcohol abuse, and prostitution (Acharya). Often, those involved in sex trafficking are forced into it and they face many psychological and health risks throughout their time trafficking and even after they escape (Acharya). Trafficking continues to spread due to capitalism and globalization.

In the dark, grim corners of a world that largely supports liberty and a certain amount of freedom exists the evil of human trafficking. Human trafficking is a horror consisting of people getting stolen from their ordinary lives of freedom, and then placed into the vicious hands of malicious tyrants. Governments have long struggled with fighting the battle with such oppressors, and have tried nearly everything to rid the world of this filth. Slavery does still exist, and whether people choose to believe this fact is beyond the point. The fact remains that many individuals are still tragically reduced to mere animals by certain groups of ferocious oppressors who do not value the sanctity of humanity. Harriet Jacobs provides glimpses of the terror

What is sex trafficking? The crime of human trafficking is the world's fastest-growing, second largest illegal trade after the drug industry. Sex trafficking is just one of the many types of trafficking in the world. It is the enslavement of adults and children to perform commercial sex acts for money. They use force, fraud, or even threats to ensure that the victim will do whatever they want. I believe that sex trafficking is wrong because all people should have a choice and all should be free not enslaved.

The Minister for Justice blames the individuals who pay for sex for "bearing duty regarding the lives stolen by [human] trafficking" ("Prostitute-clients in charge of 'lives stolen by trafficking'", October eighteenth). Human trafficking is attempted with the end goal of providing constrained work in the sex exchange as well as in the local, homecare, homestead and fisheries divisions, among

Human Trafficking is basically another form of slavery, which was abolished almost 150 years ago. The main types of human trafficking today Sex trafficking and forced labor. Sex trafficking involves traffickers threating, using violence and taking people in upon their own will and selling them for sex. Around 300,000 children are forced into sex trafficking each year. Forced labor is people who are being forced to work against their will. Many times these people are immigrants. Most of these jobs are in factories, construction and faming.

Human trafficking is one of the most dangerous crimes touching humanity. Because it violates the basic human rights to life and liberty of a significant proportion of the world’s population, of whom are socially, economically and politically vulnerable. It makes the processes of recruiting, transporting, hiding and holding, and finally receiving a person through a use of force, coercion, false promise, and monies for the purpose of exploiting them. In the article human trafficking: preventing, protecting prosecuting by Susie Johnson on page 3 there is a fact that states “through out the world 27 million people are trafficked”. These victims are used for a number of different purposing including, but not limited to prostitution, pornography,