Modern Day Slavery Of Thailand

human trafficking is one of the fastest illegal trade in the world especially in countries such as China. Human trafficking is more of a modernized type of slavery that involves fraud, force, or having the trafficker persuade their victims to do something by using force or threats. Many victims of human trafficking victims fall prey to this type of crime by being sold by family, abducted, tricked, or lured in by false jobs advertisement, and many more. Human trafficking is a booming illegal business where the criminals can exploit women and child for services that involve labor or sex which can also be accessed on the internet. When these victims become involved in human trafficking, they become high risk to abuse, drug use, and sexually transmitted diseases. A lot of these sex trafficking victims are forced to work in places such via online ads or escort services, fake massage parlors, residential brothels, on the streets, hotels and motels, and sweatshops.

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.

Nothing drives emotions out the window more than hearing about innocent children being used for sex. In Cambodia, sex trafficking has grown into a troublesome issue. Sex trafficking has become one of the fastest growing crimes occurring internationally. It is the third largest crime-business in the world, after drugs and arms trafficking. Women, girls, and even men and boys are victims of the billion-dollar sex trafficking industry. Sex trafficking occurs everywhere, and it is not culturally specific, but a gender specific issue. There are numerous cases of sex trafficking within Cambodia, however child sex trafficking is extremely captivating and distressing to learn about.

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).

Human trafficking exists in several nations all around us. No nation, including the United States is exempt from human trafficking. There may be factors that create unique anti-trafficking issues and obstacles for each nation, but the characteristics are all the same or very similar worldwide. These characteristics are how the trafficking is conducted, how the victims are kidnapped, the percentage of victims, the gender of the victims, and the percentage of each gender in different trafficking situations. The situations include children, adults, male, and female victims. The situations the victims fall into are pornography, forced labor, sex slaves, prostitution, child sex tourism, and many more. These are the issues and key points made by the authors to persuade the reader to agree with their position.

The US State Department classifies China as a source, transit, and destination country for sex trafficking . Human trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation is the second largest form of organized crime in Asia. China is a common thread in many of the complex trafficking networks working in Asia. The Human Trafficking Organization reports, China transits victims from all over the world to Thailand and Malaysia. In addition to transiting, China is a popular destination country, importing women throughout the region from Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Mongolia, Russia, and North Korea . Analyzing the attitude, culture, and opinion shifts through Chinese media will shed further light on the human trafficking phenomenon and look at the regional impact, due to China’s extensive involvement in sex trafficking.

To begin, ever since the first human civilizations formed, sex slavery has existed. Sex trafficking is today’s form of sex slavery. Slavery has existed in a variety of ways in the world. The first developed civilizations of the human race such as the Mesopotamians and Egyptians accepted sex slavery. For example, sex slaves known as Harlots were prostitutes for royal families (Geis 2). However, many Enlightenment philosophers of the 18th and 19th century developed human rights that changed the acceptance of slavery. Many laws were made to abolish all forms of slavery globally. Eventually, when slavery was abolished, human trafficking formed. The many forms of human trafficking developed because of many reasons such as globalization and poverty. Developing nations contain the most cases of human trafficking (Masci 13). For instance, in 2005, Cambodia witnessed the lowest estimated statistic of 40,000 to 50,000 sex slaves and prostitutes (Mam 3). Cambodia is a developing nation. As globalization occurs and the world develops, many people fall into poverty and desperately need money to survive. Today, there are many forms of human trafficking such as domestic servitude, bonded labor, child labor, organ

According to the UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) reported on human trafficking in the year of 2014, the highest percentage for victim gender is women with 49% and 18% for men. Girls are 21% and boys are 12%. The significant part of human trafficking are women and girl who are below eighteen. They are kidnapped into slavery and sex exploitation. Escape is very hard for them, unless they are rescued. They are mostly seen as prisoners. If the “husband” are sick of the person who is trafficked, they can be sold to others. In the sex industry, the life span becomes shorter for women because one would get transmitted diseases such HIV and AIDS. For the children, they might be kidnapped or sold to the traders by their parents because

        Sex trafficking is the trade of humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage, or the extraction of organs or tissues, including for surrogacy and ova removal.Sex trafficking is a very dangerous thing to be going on in this world.  Human trafficking can occur within a country or trans-nationally. The Metro-Atlanta area ranks number one in sex trafficking.

Human trafficking is the trade of humans by force, mainly women and female children, for the purposes of sexual slavery, sexual exploitation, and domestic labor. Global human trafficking has often been labeled as modern- day slavery; however the history and causes have been identifiable just as the causes of traditional slavery have been. What causes human trafficking? In this present paper, the hypotheses on the primary causes of global human trafficking will be identified. There are three major themes that cause human trafficking: a nation’s economy, political and legal factors, and social factors that enable the continuance of human trafficking. According to previous research indications of historical influence and social hierarchy have the greatest impact on the causes of human trafficking; these topics will further be elaborated upon during the discussions of political influences and social factors that impact human trafficking.

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

“I was brought here a few years ago, I lived in the streets at that time. A man took me to Daulatdia, the biggest brothel in Bangladesh. He sold me to the owners, who kept me in a room and gave me drugs. Then, a man suddenly came in and started taking off my clothes. I was so scared, I didn’t understand what was happening” (Halima, 17). Halima was brought into the world of sex trafficking as a child and now lives in a brothel in central Jessore, the last town before the border into India from Bangladesh. Human trafficking is a crime against humanity and although all forms of slavery were completely abolished in 1981, for the last 35 years  on average 800,000 to 4 million people are exploited annually (CNN.com). This phenomenon affects every country whether it be place of origin, transit or destination; and it is more prominent in developing countries and eastern Asia. The United Nations’ Refugee Agency claims that Bangladeshis made up 40 to 60 percent of the migrant traffic in 2015. Human trafficking in Bangladesh exploits men, women and children into forced sexual acts and labor and keeps victims in captivity. Human trafficking violates basic human rights such as the right to freedom, equality, security, health and most importantly protection from slavery or servitude. The absence of these basic human rights leads to anguish, a lost sense of security and a loss of identity which alters the quality of life for an individual. To minimize trafficking in Bangladesh the

The small country of Cambodia has become a transit, source, and destination for child trafficking victims. There are many children going through Cambodia from Vietnam and Thailand as a result of child trafficking (“Human Trafficking” 2). In 2006 Cambodia was one of the busiest spots in the world for child trafficking, with many of those victims being delivered into the sex trade in Thailand, Malaysia, Macao and Taiwan (“Global Crime Case: The Modern Slave Trade” 1). Child trafficking is happening all over the country but t one place notorious is Svay Pak, a run-down village on the outskirts of Phnom Penh (“Children for Sale” 4). As tourists in Svay Pak you are bombarded by many young children assuming you are there for sex. Throughout the village there are many girls as young as nine who are for sale. As stated by the reporter Bob Mosier, “You have an 8-year old or 9-year-old little girl you know just looking at you smiling, realizing that you’re going to in just a few

Why is there a demand human trafficking in Cambodia? Cambodia is struggling as a developing nation. Although they have reduced their extreme poverty rate, according to Cambodia’s country analysis, conducted by the Asian development bank, many Cambodian citizens only live slightly above the poverty line. The demand for cheap labor, commercial sex, domestic service increases because people do not want to pay the regulated wages (Aronowitz, p.

Sex trafficking has become prominent in almost every country. People of different age and gender are victims of sex trafficking, though, mainly women and girls are taken. In 2016, it was reported that 96% of sex Trafficking victims are women and girls. Children are greatly affected by sex trafficking. “About 2 million children are exploited every year in the global commercial sex trade.” This is just an estimate, not every act of sex trafficking is reported (“Sex” 1). The people taking these women, girls, boys and men are called traffickers. Anyone could be a trafficker but typically, are older men. Traffickers come from all of social groups and countries. Traffickers sometimes affiliate with gangs or criminal groups, but many are often seen as outstanding members of society. They are very