We keep our eyes blind and our hearts locked when it comes to the murky side of life. We tend to want to live positive upbeat lives, we tell ourselves positive thinking makes for a positive life. We would much rather forget that the world is really a wretched abyss which Satan has made his playground.
We tend to go through life never really thinking anything bad will happen to us. Yet every single day people are sold into slavery. People like me and you are taken from their lives, forced into the sex trade, all their human rights stripped away in an instant. The question is how you can protect yourself and your family from being forced into the world where you are no longer human, but slave... What makes the perfect trafficking victim? Let’s
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Pregnant Mothers
Imagine yourself into a world where you are a young female, with no money in a poverty stricken third world country, pregnant, no money, no man and no way to take care of your baby. You have heard people sell their babies for money and you believe this will give your baby the chance at a better life that you cannot give it. However, above all you need to survive, so you sell your child.
Mothers are very often tricked into selling their unborn, promised great funds and a better life for themselves and their child. The reality is much more sinister. These babies are sold into slavery and sexual abuse and mothers are scarcely compensated if at all. Often the mothers end up trapped slaves as
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Natural Disaster victims
Natural disasters create a playground for evil traffickers. In the book A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison two young girls from an affluent Indian family are forced into slavery by a family friend after the tsunami in 2004. This is sadly how many victims are taken. Young girls left without shelter are forced into brothels and made to work as sex slaves to survive after losing their family and their homes.
10. You
We always think it will happen to someone else. It only happens on TV. Your passport could be stolen in a foreign country and you could be taken to work in a brothel by force because you were seen as a weak victim by a menacing trafficker. You could be tricked into the romance of your life and broken down, your spirit broken and forced into prostitution to survive. You could go for a promising job interview and never return.
There are more slaves in this world than ever before and it is a statistical nightmare to determine how many people are trafficked yearly. Your child could be next. You could be next. Open your eyes to the world around you. Learn to look past the pretentious smiles of lurking evil villains passing you by awaiting their next victim: It could be
Human trafficking is one of the many faces of organized crime. Human trafficking is a broad term which contains trafficking for the purpose of sex along with the exploitation of labor. Currently, there are 20.9 million victims of sex slavery (Stacy.j.cecchet 2014 482) whom have or are suffering suffer inhumane circumstances and consequences. Sex trafficking is one of the largest criminal activities in the world (Stacy 249). Vulnerable women and children are taken advantage of and thrown into sex slavery, yet there is no explanation available as to how women and children are taken and thrown into the industry within countries such as Canada and the United States of America (482 Stacy j Cecchet 2014), which have human rights protection. Sex slavery leaves everlasting mental and physical effects on the abused women and children being trafficked. Even though sex trafficking is a crime it is also, for a lack of better words, an industry which would cease to exist if it was not for the supply and demand for women and children.
According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, “People trafficking is the fastest growing means by which people are enslaved, the fastest growing international crime, and one of the largest sources of income for organized crime.” Unlike what many children are taught in their history classes, slavery did not end with the installation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. In fact, contrary to modern belief, slavery is alive and well all over the world, including here in the United States. While now referred to as human trafficking or modern slavery, the two terms hold very similar definitions to past slavery, the kind America’s children hear about in their text books and think of as nothing more than a dark past; but in reality, it could be their very future. With all the negativity surrounding human trafficking, it may be hard to believe that there are actually benefits that come from this business. Like most topics in today’s
I want to have 4 children one day. Two girls and two boys. My children could be vulnerable to sex trafficking if I don’t teach them the dangers of what a conniving, charming, and manipulative person could do by turning them no longer into a friend but a product that is bought and sold for sex. According to Equality Now about 18,000 people in the US and 20.9 million people worldwide adults and children are bought and sold due to sex trafficking. That means one out of forty-three people will be bought and sold into sex trafficking in the US alone and I do not want that one to be any of you. Slavery in any form makes me sick to think about. Sex trafficking is one that upsets me the most. The buying and selling of humans for a sexual and torturous purpose should without a doubt looked upon in a stricter light. Together we need to shed light on this dark topic and know the warning signs of a pimp and of a victim so we can stop something that to the subject seems impossible to stop.
Human Trafficking and Slavery universally happens in the world when individuals are placed or maintained in and exploitive situation for economic gain. Women, men and children are trafficked for a range of different purposes; forced and exploitative labour in factories, farms and private households, sexual exploitation, and forced marriage. Trafficking can happen to all people if the circumstances are right.
Human trafficking “is used in common parlance to describe many forms of exploitation of human beings” (“Involuntary Trafficking Statutes Enforced”). The modern problems of human trafficking have evolved from the problem of negligence and or abuse from parents. These kids are sought out by pimps and other people with ill intentions. Human trafficking, however, has evolved significantly since the early years of the African Slave Trade and has now expanded to the point where there are 20 to 30 million victims world-wide. The expansion of the network was caused by
Human trafficking doesn’t happen in third world countries only. It doesn’t just happen to poor people and it certainly doesn’t solely happen to women. It is present here in the USA but it is hidden, and even worse, so are their victims. They are everywhere yet invisible. They are silently crying for our help through their eyes and smiles. According to Polaris, “…the prevalence of sex trafficking in the United States is still unknown, we do know that women, children, and men are being sold for sex against their will in cities and towns in all 50 states”. Human trafficking can happen to anyone even to Theresa Flores, the author of “The slave across the street”(“Sex trafficking” 2015). An average 15 year old American girl, coming from a privileged background and a respected family became a victim of sex trafficking and through her book, she convinces us that human trafficking doesn’t have a specific demographic.
Slavery has evolved from what we used to know as African American’s being tortured and abused to now being transformed into a modern type of slavery existing currently in the United States of America, human sex trafficking. Human sex trafficking is a form of slavery that violates human’s rights, individuals benefiting in forms of profit by exploiting humans. Which then results in physical and psychological consequences. In today’s society, Latina women are trafficked into the United States from third-world countries and forced against their will to have sex with men to later then suffer from this emotionally and physically. In addition, they are battered, exposed, and drained from their dignity and freedom as women and human beings. At a young
Fifty years ago, the abomination of slavery seemed like a thing of the past. But history has a way of repeating itself. Today, we find that human slavery is once again a sickening reality. At this moment, men, women and children are being trafficked and exploited all over the world. The Thirteenth Amendment did not abolish slavery completely, in fact, human trafficking is now the modern day slavery and is a problem in countries all over the world. Sex trafficking, illegal child labor, and illegal immigrant trafficking are all examples of human trafficking. A global underground problem, it is not only happening in the third world countries but civilized countries as well. Very seldom do victims of trafficking ever escape the vicious crime and
Recalling the first time hearing about human trafficking, I remember sitting with my mother during the church service. As the pastor explained the brutality of human trafficking, an image began to form in my head of a young prepubescent girl forced into compromising positions. Then, the pastor stated something that broke my heart, the majority of these girls were not captured, but sold. They were sold by their fathers, or other members of their families.
In the case of public abandonment, the women are often not mature enough to thoughtfully weigh their options or the consequences of their actions. Reasons for killing and/or discarding infants include extramarital paternity, rape, illegitimacy and perceiving the child as an obstacle to personal achievement.” (Brief Summary, 2000)
One way that daughters are victimized by slave trade is their family members put their daughters up for human trafficking in which most of them will be sold to pimps. According to Aaron Fichtelberg, “Sometimes these women are initially sold by their family, who often don’t consider a daughter to be an asset, in order to provide income to help the rest of the family survive” (Fichtelberg, 2008, pg.239). This can make the daughters feel a sense of hopelessness in the process of being sold. Another way that women and children are victimized throughout the process of human trafficking for the sex industry are marriage services. Marriage services allows for women from other countries to be introduced to western men who are interested in marrying them. Usually these marriage services leads to the women being deprived of her freedom and put to work in strip clubs or brothels. These women who seek to go to a different country to marry a western men usually feels betrayed. The women and children who are trafficked to the sex industry are also considered criminals. They are considered criminals due to prostitution. It is hard for people to identify who is the victim in a case like this. When women and children are caught within the sex industry they are usually sent home to their home country in which they may be shunned. Women and children could be shunned from their community if their community is against sexual work and being sexual active. It is continued victimization because the victim will always be accused of being a criminal or a disgrace to the
Human trafficking can take many forms, as well as many victims. One form of trafficking is slavery. Slavery is having a worker who is unpaid and who works by force using coercion, fraud or threat of bodily harm. “According to the United Nations, there are between 27 and 30 million modern-day slaves in the world (Jesionka, “Human Trafficking: The Myths and the Realities”).” “By 1860, the nation’s black population had jumped from 400,000 to 4.4 million, of which 3.9 million were slaves.(Henry Louis Gates).” That means there are nearly ten times more slaves today than there were in the late 1800’s.
Human trafficking is not just a part of our history; it is continuously growing around the world today because of traffickers who are using it as an easy way to make a profit. Victims of human trafficking feel as if they have no way to escape because they have limited ways to survive or make a good enough living to support themselves along with their families outside of the sex industry. Women, children and even men from time to time are taken before they get the opportunity to receive little if any education, at all. Therefore, many who could’ve gotten out of the sex industry chose to stay out of fear to return back home after years to be discriminated against by their own families and communities, knowing getting a job would be nearly
In the case of a small Paraguayan girl (10 years of age) who was raped by her step father, she was not allowed to abort her child. She then gave birth as an eleven years old to a child that surely was not wanted. “Mandatory motherhood is a unique kind of slavery that specifically victimizes women and children.” (Arthur, 1999). This is shown in the example of this little girl, not only is she being forced to have a child which she does not want, but the child will also be born unwanted and likely under-cared-for. This is surely not beneficial for neither the mother nor her baby, who may grow up under great stress and live being broken and deeply hurt.
Human trafficking covers a wide range of exploitation methods. There are currently 20.9 million people enslaved or held against their will around the world. This means that three out of 1,000 persons in the world in subject to forced labor (SAP-FL 13). These situations include sex trafficking, labor exploitation, and many more. A study in England done on survivors breaks down the conditions of people who were rescued and some of the