Human Trificking In Thailand : Prostitution And Human Trafficking

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.

Women and children who are being sexually exploited are often found in the urban areas of Thailand, but even rural areas have a share of commercial sex workers (Lau, June 2008). The Thai society is extremely male dominated as men are considered superior to women and hold the government and societal power (Vejar & Quach, May 2013). Foreign investors have a great deal of power in Thailand as the country has become more dependent tourism and manufacturing rather than the traditional small farm economy (Geary & Meyer, June 1993).

In a review by the New York Times, the author, Stephen Holder, highlights the context surrounding prostitution in each different country. From Thailand having a high end brothel ran by rich Asian men, to Bangladesh full of towering, run down apartments oversaw by madams,

Prostitution has been known of for thousands of years. The term derives from the Latin “ prostituere” which means “to cause to stand in front of”. Today, prostitution can be defined as granting non marital sexual access for remuneration, under terms established by mutual agreement of prostitutes, their clients and their employers. According to the Uniform Crime Report about 60,000 prostitution arrests are being made annually. In some nations prostitution is legal while other nations punish prostitution with the death penalty (Siegel, 2014, p. 361). However, prostitution can also be forced. Many women are forced to enter the sex trade, therefore, to put an end to international sex trade, men who hire prostitutes should be punished very severely.

Human trafficking is still lingering in South-East Asia as of today, and we do not expect to leave any time soon in the near future. The reality is that South-East Asian countries are mainly “affected by domestic trafficking or trafficking from the neighboring countries” (UNODC, 2014). There is an approximate “12 to 27 million people enslaved and exploited by human trafficking”, which this crime network brings in approximately “$30 billion dollars annually” (Collins, 2014). It is detected that today we see that (1) South-East Asia is still the origin area for victims of human trafficking around the world, (2) the vast majority of victims are females (either adults or underage girls) and children, (3) what’s surprising is that forced labor is well known among victims than sex exploitation, and (4) offenders are usually within the region (UNODC, 2014).

Human trafficking is the illegal practice of trading people for the purpose of prostitution, forced labor, or other forms of exploitation. Although many people do not believe that slavery still exists, this illegal practice occurs all over the world. People need to be better informed on this matter because the number of incidences is rapidly increasing. People are unaware of what human trafficking is and how close to their homes it occurs. Furthermore, The government has done very little to prevent human trafficking from happening. Traffickers can operate easily because of the government’s lack of implementation of the laws concerning the issue. The government is to blame for human trafficking because they have done little to inform citizens

You’re walking down the busiest street in town, you can barely hear the conversation you're in over all of the movement and excitement taking place around you. Then, you hear a bloodcurdling shriek, you see a brief struggle and a dark car speeding away from the scene. Everyone continues their loud conversations and traffic remains steady. You have just witnessed an abduction, in broad daylight, what do you do? By Webster's definition, human trafficking is organized criminal activity in which human beings are treated as possessions to be controlled and exploited by being forced into prostitution or involuntary labor. Although multiple governments have laws in place, human trafficking remains prevalent across the globe. In an article named “Statistics”

Amongst the innocent lives of people around the world is a deadly attacker whose loud and undeniable presence is ignored. AIDS is a virus that limits a person’s ability to fight off infections which stems from HIV that derives from either sexual intercourse and/or infected needles or fluids. As unprotected sex is often blamed for being a major contributor for the prevalence of this disease, it may often slip one’s mind that human trafficking plays a role as a contributing factor. Human trafficking involves sex trafficking which is very risky for one’s health and well being and most likely can transfer many diseases like chlamydia and HIV, therefore linking human trafficking to AIDS.

Although slavery or forced labor is commonly thought to be just a thing of the past, human trafficking is a billion dollar illegal industry. Traffickers responsible for this crime make profit trapping millions of people in horrendous situations around the world, including right here in the United States. Traffickers commonly use violence, deception, fraud, threats, and other manipulative tactics to force people into providing services or labor against their will.

Within society, cultural differences do exist, and they each have their set of beliefs, norms and traditions. Cultures are distinctive from one another, therefore conflict arises based on what some believe is right from wrong. Cultural differences should not be considered when discussing behaviors that are categorized as deviant because someone cannot justify their reason for committing a crime based on their beliefs.

Human trafficking refers to the movement of persons across borders for forced labor, sexual exploitation or other illicit activities. Sex trafficking is the most lucrative sector of human trafficking America, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Eastern Europe, and Russia. The global political economy, political corruption, human rights, gender and ethnic stratification, and migration are all related to human trafficking.

Trafficking in human beings is now the fastest-growing business of organized crime. Men, women and children are trafficked within their own countries and across international borders. More than one person is smuggled across a border every minute which is the equivalent to ten jumbo jets every single day. And the trade earns twice as much as the Coca Cola brand. Foreign countries are very well known for its high amount of human trafficking. The men and woman are constantly sold for their assets. Numerous forms of slavery have been a part of the world’s history. In modern society direct forms of slavery are outlawed; however, human trafficking continues to occur within sinister organizations all over the world. While women and children are not

In a small village consumed by poverty a man in a business suit shows up. He goes from family to family offering to buy children for a year’s worth of pay. He gets to one family with a young girl whose father sells her to feed his addiction for heroine. Scared and confused the girl is now forced into a brothel, sexually pleasing more than 20 men a day. Nearly five years later she is rescued only to lose her life to AIDS from unprotected sex. The human trafficking industry in Thailand has long been overlooked both internally and externally. Corruption, greed, foreign relations, economic pressure, and overall demand have fueled the trafficking industry in Thailand. Until the world and the Thai government make serious changes to the way they

Vietnam has a huge problem with human trafficking, they are the highest ranking country for trafficking. Most of the people who are trafficked are women and children. There are some cases of males, however, males are not as likely to be trafficked. Trafficking is not an easy crime to trace, however, there are many ways of prevention. Vietnamese men, women, and children are trafficked internationally for many reasons. Some do not know they were tricked into becoming a domestic slave, and they will be forced to live a life in slavery. The people who are trafficked in Vietnam are looking for solutions and a way out, the only way to stop is crime to to find outsiders who are willing to provide protections and find solutions for the problem.

This attracted many Western pedophiles. The supply of customers caused pimps to acquire children through sale and through kidnapping to meet their demand. Widespread rural poverty and the low socioeconomic status of children caused the influx of a large supply of rural children that could be acquired relatively cheap. To prevent the interference of the government Thai officials were bribed or in some cases offered a portion of the profits of the trade (Jubilee, 4.) In the past decade the media, most specifically the travel industry, has developed a taste for women with "girly" qualities. The result of this trend is a steadily increasing demand for underage prostitutes as well as the continual decline in the desired age for child prostitutes. Due to these unfortunate circumstances the child sex trade has steadily grown and it is estimated that every year one million children are enter the sex trade (World Congress, overview, 2.)