All over the world, people are suffering. Heinous crimes are being imposed upon them. These millions of innocent people are having their basic human rights stolen from them. They are snatched from their homes, families, and communities. The things they lose in the process of these injustices are greater than what most people could ever fathom. Many turn their backs on these innocent lives, they say it is not their battle to fight. However, they should be asked, “What is worth the risk of losing countless human lives?” These people do not realize that by ignoring dehumanization, they are essentially saying it is alright that these people suffer. Instead of doing nothing and pretending these issues don't exist; they should be addressed openly and help should be offered. While the privileged sit back in their homes, others suffer mercilessly at the hands of murderers, traffickers, and more. Unfortunately, the majority of these cases goes unreported as it is hard to collect information from everyone having these injustices done to them. Dehumanization can happen to anyone; the effects it has on the mind and body are detrimental and can …show more content…
Unfortunately, this number does not even include the countless others moved across the states, and even across other territories. Along with advances in technology and the growth of travel, human trafficking is the globe's fastest growing crime. The majority of trafficked people come from impoverished areas, and fifty percent of those are only minors. With exploitation like this growing exponentially, the amount of illegal substances being marketed is less. "The longer you stay, the less hope you have." Says Mauri, a sixteen-year-old victim. (Kerry, CdeBaca) Threatened with her pimp killing her family, Mauri succumbed to the man. She said he took away her identity, her will to live, and her rights as a human
Globally, about 20 to 30 million people are involved in the human trafficking system, and of those, 14,500 to 17,500 people are trafficked in the United States every year. Human trafficking is more prevalent today then ever before. It is the third largest crime internationally. People are abused and taken advantage of. According to the article, “11 Facts About Human Trafficking,” on average, a person is forced into the system around age 9, and the majority of victims are women and girls, with a small percentage of men and boys. In addition, the human trafficking system is a $32 billion dollar industry. Human trafficking can be defined as the selling and trade of human beings, ranging anywhere from children to adults, for the purpose of
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. (STOP THE TRAFFIK 2014)
It was during the first week of INT that I started to feel more in depth with the racism and its different terms. We talked in detail on intent, reverse racism, and white supremacy after watching few videos for each matter. It turned out that there are deeper meaning and context to these terms than the mere definition.
Will you able to function if you lived in another race’s shoes? Will you be able to function and deal with consequences of being the other race?When we were all fetuses in our mom’s tummy we as humans are not given the options to chose our race. Yet we are still being ridiculed from what we are born with. Racism is one of many elements that in the United States of America affects our society. However, there is a hidden problem that promotes racism. It is the fact that a lot of people try to make themselves believe that racism doesn 't exist. But unfortunately, it still does. Everyone knows about the problem of racism but don 't realize that they are supporting the problem by discriminating against other people 's rights but at the same
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 a growing endemic affecting an estimated 35.8 million men, women, and children around the world annually, as reported by the Global Slavery Index (GSI). The United States is not immune to this problem and has successfully identified 21,434 cases of human trafficking through the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline since 2007. As with crimes of this nature we must imagine this information as an icebreaker: the 21,434 is the tip that we can prove exists, but it is estimated by the GSI that the numbers run much higher, at around 60,100 people.
State Department, human trafficking is “one of the greatest human rights challenges of this century” affecting the world and the United States (Lehnardt, 2016). Among other countries, the United States is ranked very high as a destination country of trafficked victims (Lehnardt, 2016). In 2016, the International Labor Organization estimated 40.3 million victims are deceived in trafficking around the world, and with hundreds of thousands in the United States (Global estimates, 2017; Victims, n.d.). Meaning there are 5.9 adult victims for every 1,000 adults and 4.4 child victims for every 1,000 children in the world (Global estimates, 2017). More than 71% of the trafficked victims around the world are women and girls and 29% are men and boys (Human trafficking, 2017). In Texas, the Dallas Women’s Foundation reported that more girls are being trafficked in one month, than those who die by suicide, homicide, and accidents combined (Human, n.d.). In the last five years, trafficking profits grew by nearly 400%, making human trafficking the second most profitable criminal industry in the world and generate around $150 billion dollars globally (Shut out, n.d.). With its fast-growing criminal enterprises, it's anticipated that the drug trade would be surpassed by human trafficking in the next five years (Popp,
Human trafficking has been around for centuries, however in this day and age it is “the second fastest growing criminal
There has been a war on drugs for decades, and part of that battle is to stop drug trafficking, but what if I told you that there was a trafficking crime that was just as bad if not worse? This, however, doesn’t involve any illegal narcotics, but the transportation of actual human beings. Trafficking in persons refers to the illegal trade or "sale" of human beings for sexual exploitation or forced labor through abduction, the use or threat of force, deception and fraud. Human trafficking is one of today 's most egregious human rights violations. The lives of the twenty-one million victims of human trafficking all around the world ca never improve if we as a society choose to become silent about the matter. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, human trafficking is the world’s fastest growing criminal enterprise and is already tied with arms dealing as the world’s second largest illegal industry.
In seeing that we have machines already taking on the jobs of humans, what does that mean for the future? In Walmart, Target, and many other grocery stores one can walk in and use machines called “self checkouts.” If Walmart, or any other grocery store, decides to, they could soon limit the amount of workers to a few overseer cashiers and only have machines such as these to check customers out. If this ends up being more cost effective once the machines lower in cost, and the machines become smart enough to possess outstanding customer service, which such a technology seems to already exist, then jobs such as a cashier may very well see their end.
In 2007 Human trafficking generated more than 32 billion dollars, that was more than corporations such as Google, Nike, and Starbucks make combined ( Grillot, 2013). Human trafficking today is a huge business generating huge profits annually. “According to the International Labor Organization, an estimated $31.6 billion in profits was accumulated through exploitation, either sexually or through coerced labor in 2014” ( Miller, 2008, p.11 ). The profits are used for helping with criminal activities and even help fund terrorism. Awareness has increased in past decades. The sale of humans is nothing new as it dates back as far as ancient Egyptians. The victims are preyed upon by the traffickers looking for those who are young, poor and isolated from others such as homeless or addicts. They lure them by promising jobs and education. They are physically and emotionally abused. Some even tortured. They can suffer from malnutrition, alcohol and drug use, exposure to STD,s, such as HIV and unwanted pregnancies. There are also psychological issues such as depression, anxiety and even thoughts of suicide. This is repeated over and
The colossal lump of casualties for human trafficking has all the earmarks of being from poorest nations and uneducated needy individuals among the national populace ( A worldwide partnership against constrained work, International Labor Organization, 2005), human trafficking is the second heaviest hotspot for unlawful
Human Trafficking is a global problem. No one country can stop or even deter it alone. It is far too big of a “business” for that. It is a $150 billion dollar a year industry (Human Rights First, 2014). Of all the ranked crime in the world human trafficking is one of the most diverse in the scope of the crime, as well as the victim. Victims can be subjected to sexual exploitation, hard manual labor, forced private servitude and anything imaginable in between. They can range from small children to adults and may stay in their home country’s or be taken somewhere else. It is an
There are approximately 3,287 men, women, and children stripped of their freedom daily. That is equivalent to 136 people per hour. Many are kidnapped from their families, sold by family members to pay off debts or exchanged for drugs. Human trafficking has become the second most profitable illegal business worldwide with the trafficking or smuggling of drugs being at the top of the list. Human smuggling and trafficking with its high demand from both individuals in source and recipient countries has become a logical area for the diversification of drug trafficking organizations (Shelley 242).
How blacks and white view the state in of race in America will never be equal, due to the fact, that it affects each race differently. Whites in America have never been subject to racial persecution and injustice, therefore they feel race is less of a factor than what it is to blacks, whose history was defined by racial prejudice and inequality. There will always be an increased difference due to the white majority having a vested interest to suppress the topic of race for their best outcome and the black minority having a vested interest to express the topic of race for there’s. Because of this there is honestly no clear solution to solve this problem. All we can do is try to close the gaps and provide better understanding. To do that we must first be honest in how we teach our youth and then we must try to remove race from the identification process.