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The Brutality Of Human Trafficking In Asia

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“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.” -unknown. This quote helps explain how people are being used as if they were objects in the depths of Asia. Human trafficking has been an ongoing problem in Asia and is prevalent even today. Human Trafficking is defined as the action or practice of illegally transporting people from one country or area to another, typically for the purposes of forced labour or commercial sexual exploitation. Most everyone knows that human trafficking is real, but do they know it’s depth and how real it really is? To stop the proliferative growth of human trafficking in Asia, one needs to spread …show more content…

When one thinks of human trafficking, they more often than not think of forced sex by women. On the other hand, there is labor trafficking, another branch of human trafficking, which is actually in more demand. Victims are taken for all sorts of labor such as domestic services, factory work, and sweat shops. Many of these people being taken for prostitution and servitude are poor and malnourished, making them an easy target. By providing free services to help these victims, one is allowing education to be equally spread to the people who need it, not only to those who can afford it. According to Michelle Simon in the article “5 Prevailing causes of Human Trafficking” (2012) “Traffickers look for people who are susceptible to coercion into the human trafficking industry. Those people tend to be migrants, fleeing their homes either because of economic hardship, natural disasters, conflict or political instability. The displacement of populations increases individuals’ emotional vulnerability, and frequently they do not have the financial support to protect themselves.” (para.5). This further explains how this theory of being poverty-stricken directly ties to a cause of human trafficking. This in turn means that the asian people will be assisted by having this …show more content…

government to search for the traffickers in Asia by providing courses that civilians can take to know what to do in case they are ever get involved in human trafficking. Also, sending volunteers over to Asia to spread the awareness of human trafficking and the U.S. involvement would help to decrease the amount of men, women, and children being taken. There are human trafficking hotlines in Asia to report and stop human trafficking. Again, these are not widely known and therefore can not always do their jobs. One of these places or ‘hotlines’ is the ZOE. According to “Human Trafficking Hotline” on gozoe.org (n.d.) “ZOE receives over 200 calls a year on its human trafficking hotline. ZOE’s Child Rescue (ZCR) department members are Thai citizens who speak a variety of languages (Thai, Karen, Burmese, etc.)” (para. 2). Even though they do collect on average 200 calls a year, that is only a speck to the thousands of people actually taken in Asia every year. By spreading awareness in ways such as annual conventions and advertising, people will become more aware of the existing problem. By giving the people of Asia the knowledge and the ability to prevent such an attack, the course of human trafficking will presumably

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