Disadvantages Of Human Trafficking

We live in a shrinking world. We are more interconnected than ever before; with large, global economies, growing migration, and increased levels of telecommunications between countries and continents, the sharing of information -and people- is on a scale never seen before. These features don’t just ease the continuation of modern slavery, but help cement its reputation as the fastest-growing industry across the globe.

Globalization has brought many advantages indeed, but its related deregulation processes have also facilitated some inhuman practices. Bonded labor, debt-related slavery, commercial sexual exploitation and other forms of forced labor and related trafficking have become a global industry — very conservatively estimated at over $32 billion by the International Labor Organization (ILO) in 2005.

Globalization has not managed to reduce extreme poverty in countries, on the contrary, inequality has increased. This fact forces people who live in the most absolute poverty to migrate in order to survive, unable to satisfy the most basic needs in their countries of origin, looking for an option to help their family. The mafias take advantage of this situation to attract immigrants.

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