Sex Trafficking : A Unique Sector Of Slavery

Sex trafficking is a global problem that involves the exploitation and abuse of girls as well as women. This paper will discuss the problem, with an emphasis on the views expressed by Paola Monzini in her book Sex Traffic: Prostitution, Crime and Exploitation. The paper will look at the causes, consequences and prevalence rates of sex trafficking and will consider the impact of such factors as globalization and women’s poverty in perpetuating the problem or making it worse. The paper will conclude with a discussion of the ways in which a human rights perspective might translate into positive action to eliminate the trafficking of girls and women.

The main cause for sex trafficking in Russia is immigration and bad economy. The main cause to any crime is bad economy. For example if there is food shortage anywhere, people turn to theft and stealing. Human trafficking is a great source of profit. Bad economy leads to people commit horrific crimes to make money and support themselves through the harsh economy. “Human trafficking does not exist solely because many people who are vulnerable to exploitation. Instead, human trafficking is fueled by a demand for cheap labor or services, or for commercial sex acts. Human traffickers are those who victimize others in their desire to profit from the existing demand.” (Why Trafficking Exists) Unfortunately the economy around the world is not the

This article provided an overview of relevant issues surrounding contemporary sex trafficking, including risk factors. The article estimates that 600,000 to 800,000 men, women, and child are sex trafficked every year. It also explains three main factors that play into sex trafficking: human rights, migration, and security. This article exemplifies women’s lack of agency in relation to their bodies. Although there are male sex workers, there are many more female workers, further exploiting women’s sexuality. This aids in the fear women grow up and live with; the fear of being sold.

dreamed that they would be in love for the rest of their lives. She dreamed that her childhood dream of

Sex trafficking is a problem that nations across the globe have come together to try and combat, however, efforts amount to little avail. It is a difficult task to take on because

In 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States, but even after that the amendment was signed many individuals did not stop and abolish the idea of slavery as a whole. The action of slavery still existed after 1865 because individuals were still selling and degrading other human beings. It can be argued that trafficking human beings is one of the most profitable crimes today. Sex trafficking has been extremely profitable because some say that humans can be used for many different purposes, for more than one time. Unlike slavery in the 1800’s, there has now been a Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000, which states that sex trafficking and labor trafficking is illegal, which helps prevent violence

When people think of human sex trafficking, they are unaware that females are still being trafficked. Investigators have discovered that about 600,000 females are victims of sex trafficking every year and being profited on for about $30,000 each (Orme, Julie and Fariyal Ross-Sheriff 288). The traffickers see this as a business. Just like any other business, the traffickers have a supply and demand. The demand is the purchase made by the buyers or “Johns.” The victims are, of course, the supply. But without any demand, there would be no need for customers; therefore, no need to trafficked women (Utley). Sex trafficking can be diminished through teaching

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 a form of modern day slavery and is an issue that is now plaguing the world. Those who are attempting to eliminate this horrific crime are realizing the important role of the Social Workers and are now beginning to understand the role they have in ensuring policies are created that focus not only on the criminals, but also on the supports systems needed to support the victims. There are many factors that contribute to this crime and I will examine a few and discuss ways organizations are attempting to overcome this crime.

enough to ever get out of their debt or survive to experience the wonderful lives promised to them.

There is a problem with sex trafficking in Russia. The government looks the other way of the problem or they get bribed to look the other way. The main issue is that Russia is in trouble. The government says they look the other way because it could hurt Russian reputation, even though sex trafficking is everywhere. People go to Russia-typically young women- to better their education or to get a better job and get more money. These women start in Russia and as soon as they get to the country they are “taken care of” by pimps who promised them something.The sex “industry” and drug trafficking are part of the second economy in Russia, although illegal the second economy still exists. Russian government officials typically look the other way in

Whilst being the largest country in the world, Russia is a “massive landmass for the origin, transit and destination of women, men and children who are trafficked into forced labor” (Buckley, 2013). Russia is ranked as the country with the sixth biggest slave population in the world with 1 million people, and although both sexes suffer from human trafficking and sex slavery, women and young girls are the most affected. While some women choose to prostitute themselves, other women are manipulated into human trafficking and sex slavery in Russia because the Russian government is completely ignoring the problem, there are some, but very few NGOs in Russia trying to help solve the problem, and present methods will not be sufficient to decrease

It is were women who have been traffic become victims of the sex industry. Some women like Katia 23 years old from Odessa in Ukraine are aware that they are being recruited for prostitution; however they do not realize the abuse they are going to suffer from their traffickers. After escaping from sex trafficking she confessed in a documentary call “ Sex-slave” that she could not believe places like that actually existed. She said “ I thought I will find I least one kind person, or that one of the pimps would set me free” “ they did not see us as human being but just as whores, as flesh that they could use. That's all”. Even if women consent to prostitution they are still abused and severely traumatised by their “buyers”. They become victims of sex-trafficking because they are held prisoner and at the end forced into prostitutions. They can not stop or leave when they want. They are denied the most basic human rights , and in the worst case, they are denied their right to life. In order to attempt, to regulate and control such terrible activities and discontinue the suffering from victims of sexual-exploitation, international organisations such as the UN, OSCE ( the organisation for security and co-operation in Europe) and the Council of Europe have put protocols and specific laws into place . Since the mid-1990s European institutions have

More specifically then human trafficking, there is child trafficking. Child trafficking is today’s version of slavery that involves transferring a child for the purpose of abuse or illegal activities. According to the U.S. Department of State, “Child/Human Trafficking is one of the fastest growing crimes in the world and is the world’s second largest criminal enterprise, after drugs. Child trafficking happens in every single country, including the United States. When people think of trafficking of people, most think of women, but children are also being sold as slaves all across the world. Children who are most likely to become victims are those who come from low income homes, have limited access to education and are

Sex trafficking is the exploitation of women and children, within national or across international borders, for the purposes of forced sex work. Modern day trafficking is a type of slavery that involves the transport or trade of people for the purpose of work.Human trafficking impacts people of all backgrounds, and people are trafficked for a variety of purposes. Men are often trafficked into hard labor jobs, while children are trafficked into labor positions in textile, agriculture and fishing industries. Women and girls are typically trafficked into the commercial sex industry, i.e. prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation (Facts on Human Trafficking).