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Imagine a population of 27 million people; populations more than Australia are the victims of human trafficking. This includes sex trafficking, child sex trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, involuntary domestic servitude, and child soldiers. The methods are using threats, use of force, coercion, abduction, deception, vulnerability, or giving payments to the abductor. There are many contributing factors to human trafficking. These include the absence of laws in developing countries and failed states such as Libya. This also includes armed conflict around the world. Many governments are recruiting child soldiers not only for active combat but also for logistical and covert missions such as spies and lookouts. Forty percent of child soldiers

According to the United Nations Global Compact statistics show in 2006 there were 5,808 prosecutions and 3,160 convictions throughout the world. Those numbers tell us that for every 800 people trafficked, only one person has been convicted in that year. With a problem like human trafficking, victims don’t have a voice. They believe and “accept” the situation due poor choices and ways out of poverty. Many women from Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Romania, Ukraine, Georgia, Nigeria, and countries in Asia are

Human trafficking is becoming more prevalent in all nations whether it is for forced labor, organ distribution, or sexual exploitation and it is now time for us, as Americans, to step up our game and really put forth effort into combating human trafficking, especially in our home country. Human trafficking has been on the rise for the last few years and is increasing rapidly due to various factors. Typically, when human trafficking is mentioned, the first thought is that only sex trafficking is being discussed, however, human trafficking trafficking is a broad term that can include labor, organ, or sex trafficking. The common thread in each type of trafficking is that the victims in each category are lured into the work through force, fraud,

Each year, thousands of men, woman, and children are victims of human trafficking (UNODC, 2017). According

It is domineering for a more considerable effort to be put forth in order to fight the rising number of human trafficking cases. This effort must not be simply centered on individual countries fighting local cases; to see true results, countries must work together globally to punish offenders from each nation. This issue should be of great concern to people worldwide and the ingenuity must be taken to raise global awareness on this topic (Children not for sale). In order to create a more secure and free world, a global partnership must be created and stricter measures must be taken to put an end to human trafficking in all of its

Human Trafficking is one of the world’s top three most profitable crimes. It is though that more than 1,000 children are brought to the United States as sex slaves or child laborers. In addition to children many women and men are trafficked each year. People should do anything possible to stop human trafficking. Human trafficking should be stopped in every way possible.

If anyone asks you what is your opinion on human trafficking, the typical answer to be given is, “it’s a horrible thing to do and no one should have to go through such an experience”. However, human trafficking is more common than anything else, it is a global issue that has been fought against for many years. Why is it that, it has not been stopped? The UNODC also known as the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes has been trying to stop human trafficking from occurring any longer, however, they haven’t been completely successful over the past years. This global issue has many families, communities, cities, countries and everyone suffering and concerned. Although it is not a common topic in the news, it is a real issue.

This semester I engaged myself in educating and advocating on the topic of human trafficking. In addition to being enrolled this semester in I300: Global Human Trafficking, I wanted to get involved in alleviating this global phenomenon. I attended several events and lectures on human trafficking and listened to the stories of several human trafficking survivors. The first event was a presentation by an organization called Unslaved . The founder of the organization was a survivor of human trafficking. She told her story of how she was trafficked as a child in Indiana and sexually exploited by her baby sitter. Her organization sells clothes and accessories and all her profits go towards rescuing girls in Indiana and the Midwest. Unslaved has a very powerful media and art campaign called Priceless, which uses dramatic imagery and theatrics to convey positive messages. The main goal aims to empower young women and give young girls the confidence they deserve. The founder of the organization explained this as her mission because many traffickers and pimps rely on young girls insecurity show them affection and draw them in to eventually sexually exploit them.

There are so many problems in this world. Some of our world’s problems are discussed in the media everyday, for example: gas prices or politics. Some of our world’s problems go unnoticed. A problem that seems to go unnoticed that is a worldwide epidemic is human trafficking. Have you heard about human trafficking? Human trafficking is the illegal movement of people, typically for the purposes of forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation. Human trafficking is a horrible crime that more people need to be aware about. Human trafficking can be described as being a very secretive industry. No one knows what is going on behind the scenes. People are trafficked across the world everyday, taken away from their families. Some victims may never return, but if they do their life can never quite be the same again. There are ways to educate yourself about human trafficking such as knowing the statistics of human trafficking, the profiles of the traffickers and victims in the industry, and knowing about the countries that are at high risk for human trafficking. Human trafficking is all around us, and it is time to inform people about the dangers of human trafficking. People should be aware of this serious epidemic that is going on behind the scenes of their everyday life.

The problem of human trafficking affects many countries around the world. In practice, it is a transnational organized crime in which participants have networks in different countries where they source and sell their victims. Human trafficking has adverse effects on the victims as well as the entire society. Accordingly, many countries have implemented different policies in an effort to combat this social concern. Despite these policies and intervention measures, human trafficking is an industry that continues to grow steadily across the world (Bales & Soodalter, 2010). Many persons prone to human trafficking include women and children as well as prostitutes and poor persons.

Imagine a small child, who cowers in the corner of a dark room. The child sits there in silence trembling with fear, and all you can hear is your heart beating faster and faster. Above the helpless child stands a creepy looking old man. He is not there to comfort the child, or help them in their time of need, but rather to have sex with the adolescent; or auction them off to other older, creepy looking men. This is a form of what we know today as human trafficking. The trafficking in persons is a form of modern day slavery, and exploits it’s victims into a slavery type setting such as manual labor or for commercial sex purposes. Many adults and elderly make up a great number of the humans that are trafficked each year, but the general population is children since they are usually helpless and are easier to manipulate since they are still in the ages of learning. Trafficking people is a very serious crime and a steadily growing one as well. Every year, more and more people are acquired by traffickers, in their own countries and abroad. What many people do not know, is that trafficking can occur anywhere, no matter how small or unpopulated an area might seem. Not to mention, this is a grave violation of human rights as well. The victims of human trafficking usually lose their dignity, develop psychological and physical turmoil, and can meet with death at any given time if the circumstances are right. The problem seems to keep growing, especially in our own homeland of the

The world today faces many problems that are being combated by many organizations, yet there are broad ranges of challenges that are waiting to be fixed up but the efforts are not producing great results. One such problem human trafficking has been affecting many lives through years but through recent decades human trafficking both sexually and labor exploitation have risen drastically. Especially, in Southeast Asia, where child sex trafficking is a constant trouble that needs help to be fix.

Human trafficking is the illegal movement of people, usually for labor or sex. It can be done anywhere and everywhere. “Human trafficking is the third-largest criminal activity in the world.” (“Human Trafficking/Involuntary Servitude”). Sadly, most people do not realize this is done easily and often. It needs to stop now. There are little girls out there getting hurt by being sexual exploited, sold into prostitution, forced into labor or slavery, removal of organs, or even worse. It’s not just little girls either; about 3,698 out of 4,460 were women, so that means 660 of these people were not women, and 2,812 out of 4,460 were adults. (“Hotline Statistics”). These are some scary statistics. Another frightening fact is “Almost four million people are trafficked worldwide each year.” (“Florida Health: Human Trafficking”). That’s way more people than most people can even comprehend. These are just the people we caught, there are more we do not even know about trapped in this imprisonment, and we must change it.

Human trafficking is truly a horrific and inhumane practice. Unfortunately, there is a lot of misconception that surrounds human trafficking. Many people are misinformed and unaware of the truth behind this particular issue. Simplified, human trafficking is simply the trading of human beings. Humans are captured and forced into various acts. These acts range from forced labor to sexual slavery. In performing an interview with Kwame Achampong, I discovered that there were still a lot of misconceptions surrounding human trafficking. It is important to understand those misconception and be able to combat them with facts. With a problem as big as human trafficking, it is imperative that awareness be spread. Education leads to liberation. The first step to this education is to understand what people know, and what people don’t know. In the interview with Kwame Achampong a look inside the aforementioned statement is seen.

Some people do not have the opportunities that us Americans do, they risk their lives in the hopes of bettering their families lives. People searching for better lives resort to human trafficking as a result. Human trafficking is a worldwide issue that can be defined as the trading of humans, most commonly by force, sexual slavery, or commercial. Humans trafficking is one of the top leading crimes in the world today that puts not only women, but also men in danger. While human trafficking is a worldwide issue that has been going on for decades, and all the issues of the trafficking makes one wonder, how can it be stopped? Human trafficking has become the modern-day slavery, it can be associated with sex and drugs, and it is happening with a lot of women from reasons such as technology.