Human Trafficking Is A Global Problem In The World

Human Trafficking and Slavery universally happens in the world when individuals are placed or maintained in and exploitive situation for economic gain. Women, men and children are trafficked for a range of different purposes; forced and exploitative labour in factories, farms and private households, sexual exploitation, and forced marriage. Trafficking can happen to all people if the circumstances are right.

Human trafficking is a worldwide problem. From California to Australia, it happens. “161 countries are reported to be affected by human

27 million people all over the world are currently being forced into human trafficking or modern day slavery, 161 countries including the US will be affected by human trafficking. 1 million children will be exploited by the commercial sex trade each year. Sex trafficking began in the 1700s in the United States. It hasn’t been stopped because it continues to increase over the years. Even though the law enforcement and people around the world could be strong enough to stop human trafficking, I believe this situation needs to be more focused on and stopped as soon as possible. Because Human Trafficking is increasing rapidly and Oklahoma is a cross-way for sex trafficking due to the interstates such as I-35, I-40 and I-44.

Although human trafficking is the fastest growing process by which a person is enslaved, it is also the fastest growing international crime and one of the largest growing incomes for organised crime. It is estimated that at least 12.3 million people are victims of forced labour worldwide. Of these 2.4 million are as a result of human trafficking. Consequently it 1.2 million children are trafficked every year.(STOP THE TRAFFIK 2014) Six hundred thousand to eight hundred thousand men, women and children are trafficked across international borders each year. Approximately eighty percent are women and children and up to half of them are minors. Predominantly the vast majority of trafficked people come from the poorest countries and the poorest strata of the national people. Human trafficking is the second largest source of illegal income, being surpassed by drugs trafficking. Some trafficking groups have been reported to be switching their cargo from drugs to human beings, in a search of high profits at a lower risk. (STOP THE TRAFFIK 2014)

There is estimated almost twenty-one million trafficked humans throughout the world. Sixty-eight percent of the trafficked humans are held captive and forced to work. In North and South America, there is more women trafficked than men, human trafficking is one the most traumatizing things in the world, people in this world are more worried about money, then being humane.

Women and children leave home in search of better lives and that makes them vulnerable to traffickers (Haerens 28). Traffickers lead their victims to believe that they would have a better life than before. One of the biggest offer traffickers present to their victims is that they will have a job if they go with them, but in the end, they will probably not end up with a paying job (Petriligieri 3). Traffickers offer many other solutions such as a bright future, better standard of living, sense of belonging and love (Pittaro 3). People living in impoverished areas do not have the same opportunity to get an education as we, in the United States, do (“Global Recession” 1). In the Philippines they “sweet talk” the parents to allow their daughters to leave their homes and work in Manila as “domestic helpers with promises of huge salaries that they would be able to send back home to help their families” (“Human Trafficking Is Caused” 1). Once they get there, they end up in forced labor or prostitution ( Haerens

The United States is where most human traffickers take their victims and is estimated to receive anywhere between 15,000 to 50,000 immigrants yearly, just in the U.S. It’s hard to have an accurate estimate because of how underreported this act goes by. Victims tend to be subject to acts of prostitution, working in factories or service industries. They also become very submissive to their

(Unruh 6) When a victim of trafficking does the task they are forced into they are deprived of the wages that are due to them. Instead, the wages go straight to the procurer, this is basic economic exploitation. If victim objects they are silenced through beatings and repetitive rape. The most common jobs for victims to work are in the agricultural, textile,fishing industries, as well as the sex trade industry. Human trafficking is a 32 billion industry, people that buy and sell other humans collectively make 32 billion dollars a year. There are around 20-30 million people trafficked around the world ( 11 Facts about Human Trafficking). 140,000 of those 20-30 million people are trafficked into, out, and around Europe; victims from Eastern Europe are found all over Europe. (Soroptimist, 6) Of those people 60% are sexually exploited, 17% are economically exploited, and 20% is mixed or undetermined. (Unruh

The map indicates that the United States is one of the most popular destinations for human trafficking. Countries where there is a very high number of trafficked people being sent to include the United States, Alaska, Turkey, Italy, Greece, Germany, Thailand and Japan. Countries where there is a high number of trafficked people being sent to include Canada, Australia, Egypt, China, India, France, Spain, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, the Netherlands and

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) “trafficking in Persons as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power” (par 2). Sexual exploitation is the most common form of human trafficking which commonly impacts children and women. The common ways that women or children become involved in sexual exploitation or sex trafficking are by a lies being told by a recruiter. Things such as a false marriage proposal which turns into a bondage situation, being sold into a sex industry by their husbands or even parents, or they be kidnapped by human traffickers. Someone times these traffickers are people you know such as someone you though was your friend, boyfriend or a neighbor. Forced labor is another form of human trafficking is forced labor which is less frequently discovered in comparison to sexual exploitation. Victims of forced labor often work in disclosed locations, such as mining camps, private houses, sweat shops, factories and basements. Due to this finding victims of forced labor become harder and less likely to be saved. These victims are drawn in with a promise to work and earn money. Some are victims that enter a country illegally and others on working

Human trafficking has been an ongoing business that can be tracked many years back. Today it is considered to be modern day slavery and the second largest international organized crime industry. It brings in billions of dollars annually. Often human trafficking can be defined as the forced or coerced movement of people across national borders as well as within countries. Due to the increase of cultural and economic globalization, human trafficking sky rockets every year. Common areas victims are trafficked to parts of Asia, Europe and North America. Within the human trafficking sector, there are three major subsets. Sexual trafficking, Labor trafficking, and Organ trafficking.

One form of slavery is sex trafficking. Sex trafficking can be defined as “the demand for prostitution and commercial sexual services that is a central cause of trafficking for sexual exploitation.” The pattern of human trafficking of women are affected by the global supply and demand, which are not a constant flow. The sex trade supply and demand a very profitable business, if there is a demand sex trafficking will be very difficult to destroy.

There are many forms of Human Trafficking, but one consistent aspect is the abuse of the inherent vulnerability of the victims. Trafficking for forced labor is one form of human trafficking. Victims of this widespread form of trafficking come primarily from developing countries. They are recruited and trafficked using deception and coercion and find themselves held in conditions of slavery in a variety of jobs. Man, women and children are engaged in agricultural, fisheries and construction work, along with domestic servitude and other labour-intensive jobs. Trafficking in women for sexual exploitation is another form of human trafficking. This prevalent form of trafficking affects every region in the world, either as a source, transit or destination country. Women and children from developing counties, and form vulnerable parts of society in developed counties, are lured by promises of decent employment into leaving their homes and travelling to what they consider will be a better life. Victims are often provided with false travel documents and an organized network is used to transport them to the destination country where they find themselves forced into sexual slavery and held in inhumane conditions and constant fear. Next is people smuggling which is closely connected to trafficking in human beings is the issue of people smuggling. This has taken on new proportions in recent months,

Human trafficking is the issue that widely being concern under the global governance. The worst issue included more than 15,000 innocent little children (Asghar, Farhat, & Niaz, 2005, p.6) aged as young as three years old that not only being smuggled, but being slave and terrifying being abuse to work as camel jockey in UAE. United Nation under Article 3, paragraph (a) of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons define human trafficking as recruitment by means of threat or use of force for the purpose of exploitation such as prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced to labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs are

Slavery has been abolished for the past 150 years and yet, there are still men, women, and children being taken from their homes and put into human trafficking. Every individual is supposed to be given the opportunity to a long and happy life but, with human trafficking standing in the way, millions of people are subjected to illnesses, diseases, and unhappiness. Human trafficking has taken over the lives of many, especially in Bangladesh. A country that is subjected to filth, poverty, and sex trafficking. Bangladesh is one of the top countries for human trafficking. The people of Bangladesh are in need of assistance, they need to be provided with health care for each and every individual exposed to the epidemic, sex trafficking. The issue is that the men, women, and children are told they will have a job interview for a good, well-paying job, or that they will be left with someone to marry and start a family, but they are lied to. We are proposing that human trafficking victims in Bangladesh are provided with the health care they need in order remain safe and disease free.