Human Trafficking: The Same As Slavery

What exactly is human trafficking? We have all heard of it, but what actually is it. It’s a modern form of slavery. It involves controlling a person through force, fraud, or coercion to exploit the victim for forced labor, sexual exploitation, or both. It strips victims of their freedom and violates our nation’s promise that every person in the U.S. is guaranteed basic human rights. This is a crime (Beccera). Sadly, the United States is widely regarded as a destination country for human trafficking. According to the federal reports, nearly 14,500 to 17,500 victims are trafficked in the United States annually. That doesn’t even include the number of victims that are trafficked WITHIN the United States. If you are looking for a defined definition of human trafficking, California legislatures states it as being “ALL acts involved in the recruitment, abduction, transport, harboring, transfer, sale or receipt of persons, within national or across international borders, through force, coercion, fraud or deception, to place persons in situations of slavery or slavery like conditions, forced labor or services, such as forced prostitution or sexual services, domestic servitude, bonded sweatshop labor, or other debt bondage.” (Beccera) This is a crime that needs to come to an end.

Human trafficking is a continuous issue in the United States. Trafficking affects millions of lives every day. This so called modern day slavery has become a complete inhumane activity. This practice is unfortunately as old as ancient times. We live in a society that knows little about trafficking and the amount of activity of this crime is still super alive today. Human trafficking is gaining momentum every day around the world but specifically in the United States. Human trafficking revolves around sexual and economic exploitation. This modern day model is based on competitiveness that stresses a supply and demand. In the past, slaves were caught by groups and held as a commodity. Today, poverty forces people that are socially vulnerable

Human trafficking is today’s version of slavery. Victims are forced into labor, prostitution, and other exploitations. In 2007 three brothers conspired together to trafficked women from Mexico to New York, Queens. The brothers threatened, assaulted, and psychologically coerced the young women and minors into prostitution. These men were committed to sex trafficking that one of the brothers, Victor Leonel Estrada- Tepal, forced his wife, who was only seventeen at the time, into their sex trafficking trade. The brothers did not tell the women the real truth of why they were taking them to the United States. In January 2014 the three brothers were arrested and in 2015 they plead guilty to sex trafficking through the use of force, fraud, and coercion of the young women. The brothers are facing a minimum of fifteen years in prison to a life sentence in prison. According to HSI Special Agent-in-Charge Hayes, “These men preyed on innocent women, luring them into the United States under false pretenses and then cruelly enslaving them to satisfy their own greed in a ruthless prostitution scheme” (“Justice News”). These men are only one example of human traffickers. Human trafficking is a globally wide problem and countries are not working together to end this issue. Society should focus on achieving international human rights and promote an internal standard of laws against human trafficking. Although Utilitarians argue we should maximize happiness of the majority by

According to the Department of Homeland Security, “Human trafficking is modern-day slavery and involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act”. Other forms of human trafficking include: baby sales, and organ harvesting. In some cases, a victim could start off being trafficked for one thing and could be passed off to another group for another purpose until they are all used up. The thing about human trafficking is that it doesn’t affect just one race or gender, it affects everyone no matter who we are. This is a serious problem affecting every country, and there is no single solution that will solve it. There are a few different ways that we, as Americans, can make a dent in the problem. Some of these ideas are to increase awareness of human trafficking and to increase penalties for the people who are convicted of trafficking in humans.

Human trafficking is an serious issue that the population is not as aware of as they should be. First of all, what is human trafficking? Human trafficking is the action of illegally transporting people without their consent. There are about 20.9 million people trafficked every year globally (Polaris). There are more people enslaved now than there has ever been in history. Just because these slaves aren’t out in the open doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Some reasons people are trafficked are to do forced labor, sexual exploitation, slavery, or the removal of organs.

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.

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.

If you ask people in the world what is human trafficking I bet half of them wouldn’t know half of the story about human trafficking. Human trafficking has become a really huge problem in the world today. People are begun to call human trafficking the new form of slavery. And we all know what slavery is; John Moore (2008) stated in his research “Slavery has been an important phenomenon throughout history. Different societies made use of slave labor, from ancient civilizations to Islamic societies, as well as in India, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.” Well now we have developed a new form of slavery. Human trafficking is a huge problem in not only in the United States but all around the world and there has

Human trafficking is form of present-day slavery for sexual or labor exploitations for money. The most common forms of human trafficking are sex trafficking, forced labor, and debt bondage. An average “slave” cost about $90 dollars. 80% of human trafficking involves sex trafficking, 20% involves labor exploitation. About 3,287 people are sold and kidnapped into human trafficking everyday. There are about 20 to 30 million people today that are slaves. 80% of the people that are slaves are women, and 50% of them are children.

Human trafficking, a form of modern-day slavery, is the third largest money making venture in the world; 2.5 million out of 8.1 million of forced labor are sex trafficked and 1.7 million of women and girls are in commercial sexual exploitation (Stone 320). When it comes to human trafficking, it can happen to anyone and anywhere. Many female victims are sexually exploited because women and girls under the age of 18 are lured and misled by promises of employment, leaving their home and consideration that they will have a better life and finding themselves in sexual slavery and fear (“What Is”). Most sex-trafficked victims are unable to escape, but when they do, they use their voices to share their horrid experiences and how it has affected them.

My main topic throughout this paper will be human trafficking. Human trafficking is when people get transported from different areas for commercial sex act and forced labor; like a slave trade, recruitment and abduction. The most common types of human trafficking are forced labor, and sex trafficking. Forced labor is more of being forced to work or do anything against your well. Sex trafficking is modern day slavery and the which the trafficker uses forces and fraud to get the person to take part in commercial sex.

When forced into sex trafficking statistics state that 67 percent of prisoners are forced into labor, 55 percent are women and girls, and 26 percent are children that endure the conditions and harshness of this generation 's modern slavery. Human trafficking is the modern slavery throughout the globe and 27,000 cases have been reported to the NHTRC hotline in the last eight years alone (Human Trafficking). Human trafficking is of all ages, all genders, and anyone can be forced into the labor. There are some movies that shine light on this topic, “Taken” for example seems to be one of the closest movies to the ongoings of sex trafficking. Two women were taken from their vacation and one of the girls fathers goes after her and tries to track her down. We saw from the beginning how the young man, who was to abduct them, was able to learn where they lived, that they were tourist, and that they were alone with a whole floor to themselves. It was an easy catch and the two ladies did not even know what they had done by sprouting what they thought was harmless information. Women are seen as weak and property, we can see this through-out social media, even though there is talk of equality amongst men and women in this generation it is clear that women are mere objects amongst a large group of men.

Trafficking in persons or TIP, “is a form of modern day slavery” (Women’s Bureau 2002). “Traffickers often prey on individuals who are poor; frequently unemployed, or underemployed, and who may lack access to social safety nets. Victims are often lured by traffickers with false promises of good jobs and better lives, and then forced to work under brutal and inhumane conditions”(Attorney General). TIP “involves the use of violence, threats or deception to create a pliant and exploitable work force” (UNODC 2010) and includes two broad categories: (1) indenture of undocumented workers who are brought into bonded servitude; and (2) trade in persons for the commercial sex industry. Both often involve the manipulation of persons with promises of legitimate employment. According to U.S federal law, “human trafficking involves the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purposes of forced labor or services through the means of force, fraud or coercion. Sex trafficking occurs when a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or when the person induced to perform such acts is under the age of 18” (Office for the Victims of Crime).

Human Trafficking is one of the 3 largest criminal industries that take advantage of victims through slavery, organ trade, sexual exploitation and forced labor. Usually a victim is legally transferred to another country so that the people of this crime are benefited financially. Human Trafficking has become a modern form of slavery. When people hears the word ‘slavery,’ it is a harsh reality for many people who finds themselves bought and sold like objects, and treated with no dignity. Human Trafficking is like slavery due to the same method of transportation against their will to another country to benefit others. It not only involves women but also men and children, however, it is mostly known for selling women. These victims are usually kidnapped, drugged or raped and then transported to another country to be used as sex slaves. When these victims are taken away, method of extreme violence is used which slavery is the same concept. When they’re being used as sex slaves, the traffickers physically and mentally assault their victims in order to bring down their pride, dignity and ones self worth.

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