Short Summary: Human Trafficking

‘Human trafficking’ is the term that is used today for modern-day slavery. This is a series of crimes involving the exploitation of men, women, and children’s economic interests against human rights. Furthermore, it can be separated into a different type of trafficking such as sex trafficking, labour trafficking, child soldiers and organ trafficking. Sex trafficking and labour trafficking are the most popular types of trafficking. Trafficking in people is common all over the world. This has happened in every country in the world, although the situation in some countries is getting worse. Additionally, human trafficking is the 3rd largest international crime. There are over one million people trafficked annually. Millions of men, women, children

The number of unemployment is the root cause of human trafficking. Because of the origin country had limited or no opportunities for the citizens, the unemployed believe the traffickers there has better opportunities at destination. What is more, the unemployment is linking to poverty. This situation affects a family’s living style, they have a good environment or poor environment. In addition, when a family not able to live, the parents are forced to sell their children. Some of the parents think this is not only can change their situation, they also hope their children can move to a better place to live and out of the poor situation. They are struggling to meet the basic needs, so they easy to fell into the trap which set by the traffickers. To illustrate, selling the children is a common problem in Africa. The buyers buy the children in village with a cheap price. They buy them for work because human can used repeatedly and easily to train. As a result, unemployment is the serious problem must improve by the government because it is a main cause to human

Sex trafficking is an illegal activity that the people involved in commercial sex acts. Women and girls are the most common victims because they are vulnerable so they easily to become victims of human trafficking. As well as, they are forced to do sexual activities and others illegal labour. In the worldwide, it is estimated that there are 4.5 million victims of sex trafficking. Some trafficker pretends as the agencies to offer dating services. They become matchmaker to sell the women and girls across the country. Moreover, the poor families will sell their daughters to earn money. Some families could not cover their debts due to the sexual exploiter have a n excuse to forced them to have sex activities to pay their debts. As a result, the women and girls become victims to involved into sexual exploitation. Most of the victims are between 12 to 14 years old in United Stated. There are several victims are forced to marriage, this can be a form of trade between seller and buyer. They through marriage to have legal sex activity so they no need to pay and to have responsible. According to the report, there is 79% of sexual trafficking is the most common type of human