Human trafficking is a crime that affects practically every country in the world. No country is protected from this modern day form of slavery (Winterdyk, Perrin, & Reichel, 2012, p. 9). Human trafficking is a 32 billion dollar a year business that ranks third only behind illegal drugs and arms trafficking and is flourishing like a weed in sunlight (11 Facts About Human Trafficking, 2016). In some countries, human trafficking flourishes even more because of the business like agreement that seems to exist between two countries The business of human trafficking is like any business. It depends on supply and demand. Countries can be listed as supply countries, destination countries, or both. Countries that do not fully comply with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s make it easy to become a supply or destination country. It supports the supply and demand of people. Vietnam and China are two countries that do not totally follow the Trafficking Victims …show more content…
Vietnam supplies China with men, women, and children to be used in all types of forced labor. These people are forced to work in fishing industries, agriculture, and factories (HumanTrafficking.org | Vietnam, 2016). The forced labor sent to China from Vietnam helps China support it’s over 16 trillion dollar Gross Natural Product (GNI per Capita, 2016). Vietnam is also a major source of sex slaves for China. The Asian region of the world has a long history of condoned prostitution that goes back hundreds of years (Collins, 2014, p. 70). The history of prostitution in China helps facilitate the supply of people from Vietnam for the sex trade business. Many men, women, and children are trafficked into China and forced to work as sex slaves in brothels and other prostitution rings. However, not all of the women trafficked into China are used as sex slaves. Thousands of women are sold for money to become brides for Chinese men (Hung,
A $28 billion trade is human trafficking, not to be confused with smuggling. This can take place in many forms such as modern day slavery, sexual exploitation, or even worse, organ harvesting. Human smuggling is when persons pay just to be brought into a country and do not get forced into all the terrible things that a ‘trafficked’ person gets forced into doing. Trapped with no way out many are forced to work as migrant workers or prostitutes. This is one of the fastest growing criminal activities around the globe. (Vardi, 2010). “It is estimated that 800,000 to 900,000 victims are annually trafficked across international borders worldwide and between 14,500 and 17,500 victims are trafficked into the United States annually.” (2012).
Human trafficking is very contradistinctive depending on where you live. In first world countries, human trafficking is not viewed the same as it is in third world countries. Poverty, a common issue in developing countries is undoubtedly a compelling factor in the human trafficking industry. Due to severe living conditions, impoverishment leads those in developing countries to taking drastic measures in order to get through life. Sometimes parents, desperate to repay their debts, sell their daughters to brothel owners in return for a paltry sum. There are not enough resources for families to make the means to support themselves, which forces young children, especially young girls, to become victims of the criminal activity through human
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
Human trafficking is a global issue, existing in some form in every country of the world; with statistics showing that victims are trafficked ‘from 127 countries, to be exploited in 137 countries’ (The Freedom
According to the UNODC’s “Global Report on Trafficking in Persons” (2014), South-East Asian victims had been located in 37 countries
Human trafficking has been highlighted in our society today as a global human rights issue that is a result of many factors (Busch-Armendariz, 2012). While money is a common reason that criminals exploit
Human trafficking is one of the forms of slavery of the XXI century in the contemporary globalized world. It is a felony that ranks third in the list of transnational crimes, directly after drug trafficking and arms, although estimates indicate that in this decade, human trafficking will occupy the first place because of its incredible profits and economic benefits, it is estimated that the worldwide industry of human trafficking (women, men and children) moves annually more than 77 thousand 500 million and is still growing.
Human trafficking is prevalent throughout the world, especially in Asia and more specifically in China but the government and non-governmental organizations (NGO) are taking measures to put an end to it. Human trafficking involves exploitation of human beings; either sexually or by coercing them to work in unfavourable conditions for little pay or nothing at all. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) defines human trafficking as “the acquisition of people by improper means such as force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them.” Women and children, especially girls between the ages of fourteen and twenty constitute the majority of victims of human trafficking. “China is a source, transit and destination country
Human trafficking is the world’s third fastest growing criminal enterprise, after drugs and arms trafficking. An estimated 21 million men, women, and children on every continent and at all socioeconomic levels are victims of human trafficking worldwide. Each year, 800,000 men, women, and children are trafficked across international borders. Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery in which traffickers buy, sell, and transport individuals through the use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud, or deception for the purpose of sexual exploitation, forced labour, or the harvesting of organs. According to the International Labor Organization, human trafficking is a highly lucrative enterprise, generating profits of roughly $150 billion each year. The various driving forces that contribute to human trafficking are poverty, debt, addiction, political instability and
The growing global human trafficking industry is valued at $31,600,000,000 per year, which makes it the second fastest criminal industry in the world. The topic of human trafficking is one that is not taken lightly anywhere in the world. It has been an issue for ages. Human trafficking can take on many forms within age, gender, or race. Human trafficking is the equivalence to modern day slavery and needs to be recognized as such by everyone if this serious problem is to be abolished.
Human trafficking is very dangerous matter, and should be taken very seriously. People should be prepared to take many precautions when going out of the country. The people whom live in these places that have this going on should also be aware of it and should be very careful. There should also be many different ways to help others who have been victims of these sick and cruel acts, such as creating awareness of human trafficking and giving people in poverty more options. There is not one easy solution to the problem because it involves many issues such as poverty and traveling.
Human trafficking is the modern form of slavery. Unfortunately, in the modern days human trafficking is not an uncommon crime. The traffickers manage to successfully move their victims from one country to another. The easiness with which human trafficking can be accomplished is a problem of Immigration Laws among others. In corrupt countries the issue is the close affiliation between the human traffickers and State institutions, for example, the Police department. Human trafficking is not generally spoken about, the media does not usually address this issue. Human traffickers have a lot of money and power, therefore the people and the State prefer to stay out of their way. Also, human trafficking victims choose silence due to fear and a feeling
Human trafficking is a global problem in which globalization have had an important role. There are many forms of trafficking in persons such as sexual exploitation – the most known form –, forced labor, organ harvesting, etc. Its annual profit exceeds of 39 billion dollars, making it the third largest international crime industry, only behind illegal drugs, and arms trafficking.
In 2007, the U.S. state Department reported, “600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders every year,” “1 million is the number of children exploited by the global commercial sex trade every year,” and “161 countries identified as affected by human trafficking” (Polaris Project, DoSomething.org).
Imagine a four year old girl growing up in contemporary Cambodia. Each morning she wakes up miles from home, homesick and scared. She is forced to beg for money for the brothel that she belongs to, and all of her earnings go straight to her master. Then, that night, about seven men come to the brothel. These men, some as old as fifty, often pay as little as two dollars to partake in sexual intercourse with these school-aged children. The toddlers enslaved in the horrific sex trade are forever stripped of their purity, making human trafficking a major issue in present day Cambodia. Over 30,000 children are sexually exploited annually (“Children for Sale”), and millions have been forced into human trafficking