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Research Paper On Human Trafficking

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Today many people think of slavery as a historical event where people were forced into labor with no freedom of choice. Most often people think of the slave trade where Africans were bought, sold, and shipped around the world like cotton, and other goods. Slavery still goes on to this day but it goes by another term Human Trafficking and other like terms. It has an even higher scale then it did back then. Being a abhorrent violation of todays human rights.

Today there are many ways to call slavery by human trafficking, immigration that isn't documented, and other terms that are less proper. When people are stripped of their human rights and choices on a large scale it is still slavery however it is called, whether it be men, women, and or kids bootlegged across borders. There are no boundaries in Human Trafficking. Different trafficking groups target different people. While some groups target strictly young females to use in sex shops. There are also groups who take young and middle aged men to do hard work labor on farms and other sources of manual labor. …show more content…

there are women and children working in unhealthy work conditions to produce cheap goods with little or free of pay. There are about 20.9 million people globally who are victims of forced labor according to the International Labor Organization. Being one of the most serious crimes nationwide, Human Trafficking should not be taken lightly. While it is a serious crime it is also hard to get rid of and discover. Some of the reason it is hard to uncover is it can take place in many

forms, there is no set model for Human Trafficking to take the form of. People who work to get rid of this usually focus on a specific type. People often don't pay attention or understand Human Trafficking which makes it hard for law enforcement to be notified. While stopping this all together is pretty impossible there are many things that people can do to help be a part of the

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