Freedom as defined by the American dictionary, “the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved”. Every individual wants to be free to make their choices; Young people are discovering life and freedom is what they wish to live their life days carefree in the good sense; free to choose a carrier, to choose a partner, etc.; every child is supposed to have freedom to play, go to school and enjoy their childhood to the fullest. Unfortunately only in India there are thousands of young women and girls who are enslaved without freedom and the worst is sexual slavery where they are beaten and forced to have sex against their will. They are victims of the human trafficking, which is a worldwide problem. The CNN (May 11, 2009) reports that there are more …show more content…
It has been conservatively estimated that at least 225,000 women and children from the region are trafficked every year, accounting for approximately one-third of the global trafficking trade”.
A research by Nandita Deb, published by the International Journal of Social Science & Interdisciplinary Research (Vol.2 (1), January 2013), it is written that, “Human trafficking is a booming international trade making billions of dollars at the expense of millions of victims many of them are young girls and children, who are robbed of their dignity and freedom”. Those criminals who are coldhearted profit satisfying the clients’ demands out of the misery of those young girls who are deprived of their childhood.
In the study ‘Women Trafficking In India’ (Archana, 2013), the cultural aspect is mentioned, saying that in India the devadasi system, where girls are dedicated to a deity, is a practice, which enables trafficking and commercial sexual
Lucinda Ramberg in When the Devi is Your Husband challenges the portrayal of the Indian women “given” to goddess Devi called devadasis as the victims of inhumane sex trafficking and market economy. The author argues that devadasis appear to be gifts and givers simultaneously and their participations into material transaction does not undermine their agency and personhood. In fact, it elevates their social and economic importance since devadasis are entitled to inherit land, pass the name to their children, function as the head of the households, perform symbolic distribution of wealth during the major festivities such as Rande Hunnime. Then why the devadasis are largely perceived as “nothing but 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.
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.
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 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
The article is based on Sunitha Krishna ’s talk on human trafficking. Specifically, the article will define human trafficking followed by a briefly explanation as to whose interests are served by human trafficking. Thereafter, the article will present reasons why human trafficking feature in countries such as Latin America and Southeast Asia along with recommendations as to what may be done to address the
Laken Adams 6th 16th February 2018 Research Essay Human Trafficking in The Middle East Human trafficking is a problem in many countries. However, in the Middle East it has become a huge problem over the past few years. Trafficking in countries throughout the Middle East is not limited to, but includes the use of females as sex slaves, children in war and drug trafficking, organ trafficking, and many forms of forced labor for men, women, and children.
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
Undoubtedly, these kinds of natural disaster, civil unrest, political instability, war and chaos provide a fertile ground to traffickers for commercial and sexual exploitation. Poverty and lack of options are other common threads that run through the stories of most victims. Poverty is correlated to migration, unemployment, illiteracy, labor binding agreements, inability to repay surmounting debt and child labor which in turn is correlated to human trafficking. However, it is not the sole cause. There are many educated adolescent boys and girls from well-to-do families who run into the hands of traffickers as a result of peer pressure, poor self-image, addiction to drug and alcohol, violent conduct at home and lack of apposite opportunities.
It is a significant public health issue as well as human rights violation that is affecting millions of children globally, which is believed to serve as transit and destination, places of origin of children who are trafficked (Ottisova, 2015). Furthermore, Busutill (2018) suggest that child trafficking happen for a number of reasons such as lack of education, poverty due to poor family background, humanitarian crisis which is the cause of natural disasters. According to the United Nations on Drugs and Crime (2018), child trafficking is a global problem which is one of the most world shameful crime, which affects the lives of millions of children around the world and robbed them of their dignity. It is estimated that 5.5 million children are trafficked globally in situations of forced labour (Ottisova,
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
Introduction: There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice but there must never be a time when we fail to protest-Elie Wiesel. Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking is a type of modern slavery that takes away the freedom of children across the world. These children’s lives are changed forever by the action of a human being that they don’t even know. They are abused, tricked and forced to be part of an auction where they are put behind glass and rendered as less than human, sold in a brothel and their name replaced by a number. The organization Love146 was made after witnessing children being sold in a brothel.
ABSTRACT Human trafficking is the trade of humans, most commonly for the purpose of slavery, forced labor, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This unjustified trade and exploitation of human beings in the 21st century reflects a sad state of affairs which confirms that the greatest ethical challenge facing the globe today is human trafficking. It portrays a contrasting picture of inequality among equals with regard to the right of every individual over his or her life, since trafficked victims are compelled to sell their inherent freedom. Their cry for help is drowned in the sea of constant oppression and general sense of apathy which has been continuing for centuries. Human trafficking can occur within a country
“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.
Child trafficking has been a serious problem plaguing the world and it is still ongoing today. This essay, however, will be focusing on forced child labour. Child labour explained by the ILO’s (International Labour Organization) Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, is the exploitation and “enslavement of anyone under the age of 18.