Human trafficking violates the fundamental human rights of children all over the world. In a global study by the United Nations identified that trafficked individuals originated from 106 countries and are over 17,000 victims; which 28% of them were children with girls outnumbering the boys by a percentage of 2.5. Also, according to the United States federal law which states that “sex trafficking involves the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, soliciting or patronizing of a person for purpose of a commercial sex act using force, fraud, or coercion, or involving a child less than 18 years of age; and including using a minor to produce child sexual exploitation materials such as pornography, using a child in a sex-oriented business like exotic dancing and strip club, soliciting a child for commercial …show more content…
Children who experienced child sex trafficking will develop some issues during their childhood and possibly adulthood. Also, human sex trafficking in children is a multidimensional problem having legal, media, and social implications. There are certain drawback issues in these following areas, such as ways to identify a child sex trafficking victim, the government effort in stopping child sex trafficking, and the punishments for child sex traffickers. Consequently, issue of human trafficking has greatly increased in the media during these recent years. Cases of international sex trafficking have increased public awareness about human sex trafficking in children in America (Kotrla, K. 2010). With the same determination, knowing and educating people about these growing problems will assist in identifying child sex trafficked victims, avenues the governments to stop child sex trafficking, and the punishments for the child sex
Travis T Alston Jr. Professor Mr. Joshua N. James English 111 8 June 2015 Bridgette Carr Comments on Trafficking Victims Protection Act: A Rhetorical Analysis Bridgette Carr composed the Article “Trafficking Victims Protection Act needs to be more supportive of child victims”. As a clinical assistant professor and director of human trafficking clinic at the University of Michigan Law School she has done much research on this topic. Her article deals with how the government officials, such as U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security, and other government agencies that are responsible for the trafficking of child victims. Professor Carr argues that there should be better ways to avoid the way that child trafficking victims are treated when caught in a sting operation. She does this by explaining
Human trafficking is the fastest growing crime in the entire world and is considered modern day slavery. Almost 80% of trafficking is through sexual exploitation, which means that it primarily affects women and girls (UNODC, 2009). Victims are often tricked into the business through promise of work or a better life and sometimes just randomly stolen right from their homes. However, this is not just an issue overseas. Michigan is listed as the state with the second highest rates of human trafficking.
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.
There will be no solution to the growing problem of human trafficking until more people are aware of how human trafficking takes place, until states begin to deter human trafficking more effectively, and until more individuals take an active role in reporting possible acts of trafficking to the proper authorities. Therefore human trafficking cannot be defined as any one particular crime; it is not simply sexual exploitation. Other forms of human trafficking are labor trafficking, slavery and in some cases human trafficking consist of the removal of organs. It is much more than that because human trafficking has many different characteristics. In the article "Hidden in Plain Sight: Human Trafficking in the United States,” Hepburn and Simon state that “. . .
In the United States, human trafficking has taken on different forms than what is normally thought of as human trafficking. It can range from a migrant laborer wanting to get a job to be able to support his family to survive who is then forced into manipulative work to a child running away to get away from abuse that is happening at home and the person that is helping the child get away from the abusive situation at home turns out to be exploiting him or her to make a profit (Farrell et al, 2014). According the International Labour Organization has estimated that 20.9 million people are involved in human trafficking in the whole world, with 1.5 million victims are in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. In 2011, there were 3,969 convictions worldwide, and there were only 151 convictions in the United States.
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
Means is how the crime is done, means mostly consists of abduction, threats, manipulation, deception, force and the like. Purpose explains why it was committed which is the explicit intent to exploit the victim. The International Labor Organization reported that in 2017 approximately 24.9 million people were victims of human trafficking with around 81% of victims falling under the category of forced labor and 19% falling under the category of sexual exploitation. Out of the 24.9 million the demographics showed around 70% of women and girls were victims of trafficking and 30% of men and boys were victims of trafficking, with 75% being over the age of 18 and 25% being under the age of 18. Within the United States there are approximately 600-800,00 victims of trafficking according to the US State Department, with Asia-pacific region accounting for the largest amount of victims internationally.
Another effective ways to lessen human trafficking can be by making knowledgeable about the dangers of this disgraceful act in ordinary awareness programs and provide a moral and spiritual help to the victims providing them the understanding of how immoral this job is, likewise mental backing and free or low cost services could be provided to the victims of human trafficking by the anti-trafficking associations. Staffs of the anti-trafficking associations should be prepared well to recognize the victims and provide them immense support and care. On the other hand the government itself can reduce human trafficking by bringing in severe rules and regulations and bringing out laws that can remove human trafficking completely. The government can likewise reduce human trafficking by concentrating on decreasing the corruption level in their nations and reinforce the authorization of law. It is the government obligation to take a move on the human trafficking and must punish the individuals who carry out such human trafficking crimes and should be faced to severe penalties and such individuals must be sentenced to prison for their entire lifetime or punished accordingly to their level of
THE IMPACT OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS Human trafficking today is a global phenomenon, affecting men, women and children in over 130 countries of the world. Trafficking is a crime against individuals. As such, the consequences are most directly felt by trafficked persons. As well documented, trafficking activities contravene fundamental human rights, denying people basic and broadly accepted individual freedoms. Trafficking also has broad economic, social and cultural consequences.
Sex trafficking is mainly men and women occasionally children forced into sexual work. Ninety-eight percent of victims are adult women and girls while
In an effort to decrease the paucity of information and awareness of survivor’s experiences, the authors’ project analyzed the narratives of six survivors of child sex trafficking to assess factors that influenced their ability to survive, leave the sex trade, and reintegrate back into the community. The participants began to desire more meaningful, safe interpersonal relationships outside of the sex trade, and once participants left the industry, they stabilized and began the process of processing their traumatic experiences through new social and emotional supports. There is still much knowledge and awareness to be gained from working with survivors of sex trafficking, and child sex trafficking specifically, there is significant hope that simply the act of gathering information about their experiences will help survivors being the journey of processing their trauma. According to Clarke, Amnesty International voted to recommend a policy calling for the decriminalization of all aspects of adult, consensual sex work, including buying sex and operating a brothel.
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
We are living in a world where one person has an absolute power over another. The groundless trade of human beings in today’s world shows a deteriorated state of affairs which confirms that the greatest moral challenge facing the globe today is human trafficking. It refers to illegal sale or trade of people for sexual abuse or forced labor through coercion or abducting people. Our world is facing from many obstacles created by natural and manmade disasters which further results in problems in every country’s economy and social welfare of every person is jeopardized and one of the problems faced by majority of the nations of this world due to economic downfall is human trafficking. It is one of the most atrocious human rights infringements commonly
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil but by those who watch them without doing anything”-Albert Einstein Human Trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labour, organs removal, commercial sex exploitation and economic exploitation. Normally, trafficking is done by threat, compulsion, abduction, fraud, misleading, abuse of power, vulnerability, giving payments or benefits to a person in control of the victim .Trafficking in person is a serious crime and dignified violation of human rights . Most of people nowadays do not know that human slavery still exists; after it was abolished 150 years ago, its proven when there is an auction of young women intended for sexual slavery occurred publicly in Britain highly policed location and another auction even took place in front of a café at Greenwich Airport, Britain (News by BBC UK, 4 June 2006, 14.31 GMT). These crimes have been booming and become a global phenomenon when victims from at least 153 countries were detected in 124 countries worldwide between 2010 and 2012.
This makes sex trafficking a complicated subject to not only talk about but also to really fully understand. Kemberly Kotrla includes this statement; “human trafficking is is one of the greatest human rights challenges of this century,” in her article Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking in the United States. This article goes into depth on how sex trafficking is a problem in this world and people in first world countries, such as our own, often times don’t pay much attention to that. This is a huge problem and the numbers don’t lie about how many people are related to sex trafficking. The number of people involved in this continues to increase making it a major problem that only shows signs to get