Sex Trafficking Is The Violation Of Human Rights

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.

Human Trafficking is the exploitation of men, women, and children in order to gain a monetary benefit from the involuntary sex acts the victims are forced to commit. Trafficking rings are usually run by one pimp or a family of pimps that charm the victim by offering them a better future of love and promise. However, this life does not consist of those charming promises. As the testimonies below will show, human trafficking may be stated as a good monetary business and life choice, but instead, trafficking violates human rights and leaves victims isolated from those who love them, and rejected by the world that does little to protect them.

Sex trafficking is a problem that is happening and occurring all over the world. Many families and individuals suffer due to sex trafficking. Many people are not even aware of what it really is. Sex trafficking is when young girls, as young as five or six, get kidnapped and are used for the sexual pleasure of others with a profit, or are sold as sex slaves to other people. The official definition is, “Human sex trafficking is a form of slavery and involuntary servitude resulting in grave human rights violations. Sex trafficking involves individuals profiting from the sexual exploitation of others and has severe physical and psychological consequences for its victims.” (The

A young African girl, Gracie, was persuaded into having sex with strange men and packaging illegal drugs, all under the watch of child traffickers. Gracie’s family was murdered when she was eleven years old; shortly thereafter, an older man claimed to be a friend of her deceased family. This man brought her to a home where Gracie was forced to engage in sex with men she’d never met; “sometimes it was 3 or 4 men a day” (NSPCC).

Oftentimes when people hear the term human sex trafficking, they think of heinous acts that take place in other countries where adults, children, girls and boys are exploited to perform sexual acts in exchange for money or goods against their will. They think it typically occurs in places that are less developed than the United States. However, the reality of this horrific crime is that it is taking place in the United States, and it occurs more and more each and every day. Young girls are not solely the victim of human sex trafficking, young boys are victims of this monstrous act as well. Individuals residing in the United States need to be made more aware of this issue as it has started to rise through social media, large events, and by those in other countries being promised work here. After researching, it is apparent that there is a great deal of information that is lacking, on sex trafficking in the United States. Not only is sex trafficking an issue, but the lack of awareness about sex trafficking is also an issue. This thesis proposes that human sex trafficking is an unacknowledged epidemic within the United States, and it seeks to discover why it has become so prevalent.

Sex Trafficking in the U.S. is an article by Rachel Chinapen found inside the textbook Women’s Voices Feminist Vision. In this article the the author discusses the reality of sex trafficking in the United States still going on today. According to one of her sources, Love 146, More than 100,000 U.S children are forced to engage in prostitution or pornography in combination to $32 billion being spent worldwide on trafficking. The two examples that Chinapen gave were two women named Shandra Woworuntu and Ms. Richards. Shandra Woworuntu came to the U. S. from Indonesia to pursue a job in the hotel business but as soon as she arrived her passport and other identification was taken. For years she suffered in sex trafficking she was able to escape.

Sex trafficking has become and continues to grow as an industry. Sex trafficking is when someone uses force, fraud, or coercion to force a person to commit a commercial sex act. A commercial sex act includes prostitution, pornography and sexual performance done in exchange for any item of value such as money, drugs, shelter, food, or clothes. It’s able to grow because there’s a high demand. The buyer fuels the market with their money, then the trafficker/ pimp exploits victims to gain profit from the buyers, lastly the victim consists of girls and boys who are bought and sold for profit. Traffickers find victims through social network, home neighborhoods, clubs or bars, and school. Then lure them through protections, love, adventure, home, and opportunity. To ensure compliance and meet demands they use fear, violence, intimidation, and threats. The sex trade industry has to be terminated; the use of humans for profit is inhuman and remorseless. ("What Is Sex Trafficking? - Shared

In 1863, the United States enacted laws that formally abolished slavery. However, modern day manifestation of slavery still exists; it is called “human trafficking.” Human trafficking, according to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 is “trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery (United States, 2000). Although there are multiple categories of human trafficking, this essay will focus solely on human sex trafficking.

Human trafficking and sex slavery have gotten much more worse globally as time went by. Buying a female’s sexual services is becoming more common and acceptable everyday. Especially in the state of Nevada where brothels are legal, and in Las Vegas where prostitution is a booming business in the underground world. In the two films, “Demand,” and “The Journey,” four main significant issues can be drawn based on human trafficking and sex slavery. The first point is clearly holding women against their will. Some females need the money that bad to care for families. Many strippers or prostitutes have children and need to supply for them. Especially when women don’t have an education, they turn to selling their bodies to make up for it. Women are

Sex Trafficking is the recruitment or abduction of individuals ranging from grown men and women to innocent children to perform commercial sex acts in exchange of money, food, shelter or security of their lives. The rationale behind this savagery are the high demands and an immense financial gains coming from it. It is considered as the modern day slavery and the world’s third largest crime industry. About 70% females are associatively involved in this unwarranted line of trade across the United States. Numerous naive kids are being taken away from their homes. Violence and false advertisements are widely used to benefit from the victim's work.

In 1865 the United States passed the thirteenth amendment of the constitution, which formally abolished the practice of slavery in the United States. Over a century has gone by since this day, and yet somewhere behind the mask of freedom that our country holds with such pride lingers a hidden trade. This is the trade of modern day slavery that remains prevalent in our country. Despite the freedoms we are granted as a citizen of the United States, human trafficking is a massive issue that is often overlooked. The United States is ranked among the top five countries where human slaves are sold and exploited for labor or sexual purposes (Mizus, Moody, Privado, & Douglas, 2003). Human trafficking is a crime and an abuse of human rights that

Sex trafficking is a worldwide issue that is prevalent in many countries and is defined as “a form of human trafficking that almost always involves the forced prostitution of women, although it does fall upon men as well, often children.” This issue is a form of modern day slavery that unfortunately occurs more than it should. The fact that this is a common worldwide issue means that it is a problem that is affecting everyone. Therefore, it would be of uttermost importance for this issue to be brought into light more so that the public could work together to decrease the number of victims that are forced into this kind of lifestyle.

We often hear the saying “Love the women in your life.” After all, they are the ones who birthed us, nurtured us, allow us to have children of our own to care for, and etc. However, they are also the main target for the human trafficking industry of sexual exploitation. Human sex trafficking can date back to thousands of years ago, but the most known period of human trafficking were portrayed during African slave trade (Oster). That being said, alongside the forced labor included among enslavement, the second most popular form of human trafficking is sexual exploitation, mainly among women and children (Deshpande and Nour). As stated above, figure 1 proves that sexual exploitation remains to be one

Women all around the world are being bought, abused, then sold again for their body. In the United States doctors: Donna H. Hughes, Carol J. Gomez, and Janice G. Raymond have launched a program to try and put an end to sex trafficking. Annually, almost 50,000 women and children are imported to or from Asia, Latin America, and the Soviet Union for sexual purposes (Alvarez, Larry). Women are forced into being sexually active for money that they do not keep themselves. They are not even seen as women, they are thought of property that can be played with. Sex trafficking is a growing industry and is a disgrace to all women involved.

Human trafficking is a topic that is not discussed very often in society. Many people fail to realize that human trafficking still exists today. Human trafficking violates basic human rights. It takes away the freedom and security of men, women, and children world wide. The diversity and widespread execution of human trafficking make it difficult to regulate and prosecute.