Adverse Socio-economic condition of people in many regions offer an ideal opportunity to the traffickers to lure poor women by promising better pays, jobs and much comfortable life in distant places. In several cases, women in rural areas have very little skills and education and very little income opportunities at home, find it hard to reject such offer. Sometimes the promise of immediate payments encourages the family’s living in financial difficulties to sell their daughter to the traffickers. Often marriage appears to be an easy instrument for trafficking women to for away places and exploit them sexually and economically.
It is found that a majority of the trafficked girls are between 14-16 years, whose parents could not afford to pay for their dowry. Almost in all the cases of trafficking in rural areas, the recruiters live in close proximity with the recruits and are known to the victim in the form of neighbors, relative or friends.
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The state has international boundaries with Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal. The India states sharing boundaries with west Bengal are Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand, Sikkim and Assam. Due to its crucial location in India, the vulnerable locations and groups in West Bengal are not just prone to intra and Inter-state trafficking, but also to international trafficking. The state contains some notorious red light area such as Sonagachi (Kolkata) and women and children trafficked from other parts of the Country and from foreign Countries (Bangladesh and Nepal) are brought to this place. Infiltration also adds to this continually increasing problem of trafficking.
3.1 Reason of trafficking: (i) Poverty, (ii) Illiteracy, (iii) Lack of employment, (iv) Gender discrimination, (v) Domestic violence, (vi) Child marriage, (vii) Dowry system, (viii) Social condition, (ix) Lack of Administrative function, (x) Sex tourism
One of the many things that can make a person susceptible to trafficking is their financial situation. Victims of trafficking might come from any socioeconomic class, but the lack of resources, especially employment prospects, is intrinsically tied to the crime. When people desperately try to escape poverty, they may fall victim to deceptive job practices or sex trafficking. Human traffickers focus on the poor and those who are otherwise unable to provide for even their necessities. Over a third of the world's population, or 2.5 billion people, are at risk for human trafficking since they earn less than $2.00 per day (Cook et al., 2022).
A Not so Happy Happiness House Lakshmi’s journey as a young girl throughout Sold by Patricia McCormick illustrates and sheds light on a few of the 12,000 girls in Nepal that get trafficked or sold by their own families to pay off debts and provide an income. Society often forgets that issues such as these still exist, where young girls are unwillingly forced into prostitution. The things they go through, being manipulated, and held hostage are shown throughout the book. Through Lakshmi’s perspective on sex trafficking in the book and the struggle of will women face, can be seen throughout her experiences and the people she meets. Sex trafficking of females is one of the largest issues world wide, with majority of society uninformed of the
This book discusses the flaws that America has when talking about human trafficking, as well as the shortcomings within the Justice System regarding procedures, policies, and prosecution, and outcomes for human trafficking victims. The book opens with stating the amount of money made within human trafficking and then continues to add on from this topic about the amount of people being trafficked. These two factors then let the author continue to discuss the errors and inequities within the Justice System as well as the overall lack of intervention and support to help people who are being trafficked.
The women that are being trafficked around from state to state have to have sex the way the customer wants it even if it means unprotected. Men don’t care for the women that they are having relations with so they force them to have sex knowing that they might or might not have any kind of infection. “Gita contracted HIV as a direct result of her status as a victim of sex trafficking. She, also, unknowingly and unintentionally, may have spread HIV to customers who bought her after she became infected”, (Kloer 2). This is a clear fact showing that the people who commits these acts are people who only care about putting money in their pocket failing to realize that those girls can die from this.
These frameworks relate directly to human sex trafficking. The gender roles displayed within sex trafficking are predominately male ‘pimps’ or ‘traffickers’ using multiple tactics to lure women and children into the trade. The average age of a girl first being drawn into the sex trade is 12-14 years old. According to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center, 51% of the victims lured into the sex trade were women who believed to be in a romantic relationship with their pimps, 18% were offered food, a place to sleep or money, 14% were lured through fake job offerings, 11% were abducted like survivor Clemmie Greenlee, and 6% were lured using other methods. According to the National Runaway Hotline, 1 in 3 teens will be lured towards prostitution within 48 hours of running away from their home.
In an article entitled “Tessa’s Story: Human Trafficking in America,” Venus Rodriguez tells the story of Tessa, a seven year old girl who was raped by her father and survived by viewing her body as not a part of herself. When she was a teenager, she was befriended by a guy named Jared who flattered her, bought her gifts, and made her feel special. She had no idea he was a pimp and that she would soon be on the street selling her body. Jared would withhold food if she did not meet her quota. Jared would drug her; he even convinced her that nobody would want her.
Human Trafficking is a popular trend for criminals in the twenty first century and this negative activity must be stopped by apprehending the human traffickers, educating the community of what to be aware of and what it is, and also to report any signs of
It is the world’s fastest growing global crime that people are being bought, sold and smuggled for sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, bonded labour and even organ sacrifice ending up with death. The most tragic fact is 26% of the victims that are sucked into trafficking are children. In this violation of human rights’ grave, where persons have a price tag, anyone can be a victim. Human trafficking doesn’t discriminate on age, gender, race or religion. It is happening to humans, just like
In china trafficking has many forms: purchasing for brides, purchasing male son, selling unwanted girls (female children), and using people for slave labour, prostitution or commercial sex. Mainly in rural areas of china, men are willingly seeking the brides from a country in which women are short in supply. And these men willingly married to trafficked women. Trafficking of boy children and women has become serious human violation in china. As per the report of TIP from U.S department “domestic trafficking is the most signi9ficant problem in china.”
Majority of victims globally are girls and women, most of them are trafficked for the end goal of sexual exploitation. Traffickers mainly target females because they are excessively influenced by discrimination and poverty, elements that obstruct their approach to educational, employment opportunities and other resources. Maybe the most grounded factor is an urgent economic circumstance, which affects the accessibility of satisfactory employment in numerous nations for females more seriously than males. There is a suspicion that males are the perpetrators and females are the victims.
As a criminal act, trafficking violates the rule of law, threatening national jurisdictions and international law. Further, trafficking in persons redirects the benefits of migration from migrants, their families, community and government or other potential legitimate employers to the traffickers and their associates. Difficult as it is to measure accurately the scope of human trafficking, it is equally difficult to measure its impact. The dynamics of the trade are constantly evolving and a range of national perspectives exist.
Human trafficking, or trafficking in persons (TIP) or modern day slavery, is a heinous and widespread crime occurring around the world in nearly every society. Most people often thought slavery was part of the past; however, human slavery is part of our current society and has been an on-going issue around the world. Human trafficking is a type of slavery that involves forced or bonded labour, sexual servitude, child labour, or involuntary servitude all over the world. It is important to note that sex trafficking contributes to more than half of human trafficking and most of these victims are women and young girls. This modern day slavery can happen to anyone, anywhere, and at anytime (Ton, 2012).This literature review of documents and reports
This sort of sexual exploitation in the form of human trading, is bring notoriety to its name and a lot of countries consider Pakistan as one of the major trafficker and blame it as a reason for this ghastly crime accompanying other countries and even United States Department of state recently raised a finger at Pakistan for being a base area of this deplorable business. Poverty is the leading cause of this slavery, and it’s evident that poverty leads to uneducation resulting in increased unemployment giving rise to such trafficking cases in society. Besides human trafficking is one of those serious crimes which is globally considered as the major cause of a fact that majority of the people carrying HIV/AIDS virus are women. Many women and children are unaware of risks associated when they intentionally opt for selling their bodies.
INTRODUCTION: Human trafficking involves the use of human beings to exploit the vulnerable through forceful stripping of their dignity and self-worth. Every year millions of persons are trafficked both domestically and internationally in India. Trafficking in persons is estimated to be the fastest growing enterprise of the 21st century. This crime comes at an incalculable human cost and represents one of the most shameful facets of the modern world.
Trafficking is always characterized by elements of exploitation through fraud, coercion and other illegal means. Human trafficking is a difficult to understand and complicated issue. It is not confined to a particular country or region but it has spread its roots more intensely in the third world countries especially in the subcontinent. However, if we talk about its connection in Pakistan it is quite distressingly connected with our society. In terms of definition, Human trafficking is modern-day slavery and involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act.