American government and societies are enforcing underage prostitution by increasing demand to have sex with young girls, criticizing victims as criminals and ignoring sex trafficking. The societies are not willing to rescue victims because they think it was their decision of going into prostitution or it is too risky. Some girls make this decision, but many of them are trafficked and enforced into prostitution. In the popular article titled, “Human Trafficking: A Misunderstood Global Scourge,” Stephanie states, “Often, girls who end up in prostitution are already vulnerable – they are abuse victims, come from unstable homes, have run away, or suffer mental impairments. Others are simply naive, susceptible to manipulation of a pimp, who often
Victims are often silenced and told that telling law enforcement will only create more of a problem for them because prostitution is against the law. In most cases, no one steps forward to get their traffickers in jail. The feeling most girls have is turning there pimp in, means turning themselves in. In other cases, many get attached to their pimp and develop dysfunctional relationships that make them scared to come out and tell law enforcement. “Traffickers also play into the narrative by telling victims, who are exploited for sex, theyĺl threaten to call the police and report them for prostitution if they push back” (Alvarez 2).
Many of the adults and children put into prostitution were at one point abused horribly. Furthermore, 98 percent of women become prostitutes if abused at a young age. Children were taken from their families and forced to have sex against their will. These traffickers can be charged for sexual assault, kidnapping, and abuse. The population is growing, between 100,000 and 300,000 children are being taken away to work as prostitutes.
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.
Thesis Statement A. What I hope to aim for my audience is too see what these young girls went through and how they are lured into this not willing wanting to go. I went through and listen to lots of stories of woman who were taken when younger and how they were enslaved by these men who mentally controlled their thoughts. When I read about poor stories from overseas how parents where so desperate for money they sell their children it was heartbreaking, but those two young ladies today Keiu and Sara are now working with a group home building a future and hoping to help other victims. The purpose to give the audience a better understanding what human trafficking is and how it’s going on in our neighborhoods.
Human development standards of a country give economic and social development of its society as whole, which may influence by healthy internal and external affairs. Currently, some states encounter challenges of domestic unrest in the form of civil wars or domestic conflicts, religious issues as experienced by Israel and Palestine, and ethnic cleansing like genocide problems. Among them human smuggling, human trafficking, irregular movement of persons, migrant workers, boat people and asylum seekers are also crucial issues in the international relations arena. Some people are confused about smuggling and trafficking.
It is really perturbing that when suddenly when driving into a certain neighborhood, or street, and in a specific time of night, you see various women slowly starting to appear walking in the night. While children wonder why those women are out so late, and parents try unsuccessfully to distract them from the situation, no one truly dares to change anything. Most just simple choose to look away, not aware of the horrors these people face. The sole idea of one’s own family members in this industry, would make anyone’s skin crawl. Sex trafficking has stained society’s history, present, and sadly, it’s future.
Prostitutes are now in some cases seen as a “victim of an immoral institution” (Green). A major form of prostitution that is necessary to examine in relation to the ethical condition of unjust harm is human trafficking. An organization called Traffick Free claims that there are 16,000 to 25,000 individuals in the Chicago area alone that are involved in prostitution and human trafficking (Dueholm 28). Society has taught us to blame the prostitute for the violent things that occur to them simply because they chose this profession. But this is a form of unjust harm unto the prostitute.
Sex Trafficking is a form of modern day slavery that exists throughout the United States and globally. It is one of the biggest lies in society (Farley et., 2014). The Vanderbilt Law Review indicates that the majority of prostitutes do not enter the prostitution lifestyle on their own free will choice, but instead becomes a prostitute due to a variety of vulnerabilities that both pimps and traffickers exploit. This explains why young women get blindsided and think they are becoming a prostitute when in reality they are a sex trafficking victim (Elrod 2015). When the United States made prostitution illegal, it did not change the mentality of the johns.
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.
The earliest form of global human trafficking began with the African slave trade. The American and European continents were involved as buyers, and the different African groups were both items of trade and middlemen, it was the first known international flow of human trafficking. Women trafficking is one of the earliest forms of human trafficking. It is the trade and the procurement of females against their will , most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor, or commercial sexual exploitation(forced prostitution) for the trafficker or other parties.
Sex-trafficking, in the form that it persists today, was not seen as a major issue by politicians until the 1990s. Today, prostitution is criminalized in most U.S. states with few exceptions in locations, but this does not combat the people who behind much of the organized operation. In America, there is a reoccurring theme of young girls from broken homes, whether there is a missing parent or parental-child discord, who
This panic has resulted from the fractious and polarized debates over the moral status of sex work: prohibition or regulation. Enormous data, opinion, facts, are available, on either side. This debate has occupied the energies of international agencies, nation states, NGOs, feminist researchers and activists and finds expression in a plethora of legal and regulatory projects. The examples include the 2000 United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking Against Persons at the international level; the 2002 South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Convention on Combating the Crime of Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution at the regional level; and the 2000 Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act, An U.S. domestic law with international ramifications. For the purpose of this article, I will merely locate myself as interested in theorizing sex work as work, which falls back on the liberal discourse around choice,
Human trafficking is now one the fastest growing criminal operations worldwide. Human trafficking is a form of modern slavery that occurs in every state, including Ohio. “In 2008, there was estimated tbat estimated nearly 2.5 million people from 127 different countries were being trafficked into 137 countries around the world. In 2013, the total annual revenue for trafficking in people was estimated to be USD $32 billion.” (United Nations) “The average cost of a human trafficking victim today is USD $90, which, in comparison to the Southern American slave trade in the 1800s is significantly less.
Women and children trafficked into sex industries are often forced into activities such as prostitution and pornography. The basis of the sex trafficking trade is female victims and male perpetrators and the gender roles of victims and perpetrators value gender-focused strategies to combat sex trafficking (Busch-Armendariz, 2009). Sex trafficking. Sex trafficking receives a great deal of attention, trafficking for labour purposes is actually in greater demand (Gozdziak, 2008). Labour trafficking applies to men, women, boys and girls.
A problem greatly considered beneath America, child sex trafficking is actually one of the largest and most dubious underground economies within the States. While little appears to be done about the thousands of boys and girls locked within the trade, there are multiple ways to help prevent its continuance. On a large scale, legal action should be taken to criminalize perpetrators of child sex trafficking and decriminalize victims. While laws exist against engagement of sexual conduct with minors, whether for profit or not, “only eighteen U.S. states have laws explicitly prohibiting the criminalization of child sex trafficking victims” (Dempsey). In the other thirty-two states, children can be arrested for the sex work they engage in.