Slavery of today By: Lily Vasil
Human Trafficking is no joking matter. People can be raped, beaten, kidnapped, and thrown in a sex cycle. This all can happen in a total of five minutes. To think this is all for these traffickers wanting money. With around 14500 to 17500 people getting abducted a year. Using drugs such as Heroin, a highly addictive drug that could make a person come back each and every time. Once in this gruesome cycle it is extremely hard to get out. These people will never know where the next place will be, or who will be their next buyer. Traffickers can not only hurt people physically, but mentally too. By tricking people by saying things like a lover would say. One of the main reasons for getting caught in a situation like this is trauma. Feeling alone causes people to run from home. These traffickers will use any sight of vulnerability that shows. Human trafficking makes people have trust problems, and not where clothes they wanna wear. Even if you don't do these things, even looking at traffickers in the eyes can get people trafficked.
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Some Moms, Dads, and friends can be traffickers. Selling you just for the money is sick. Ways to be safe from human trafficking are don't be so trustful online. Stay with an adult. Don't be so out there when talking to strangers. Or wearing insanely revealing clothes. It makes the dress code a lot less unfair at schools than people think it is. Sometimes trafficking doesn't happen instantly. Some trafficking can happen for a long time by gaining information by stalking their victims. Some of these trafficking can be as extreme as child marriage or labor. Which causes them to get kicked out of school. Around 40 million kids the age of 15-19 are going through this worldwide. in the future it will only get worse. With trafficking being one of the main reasons for
Adriana Williams English Mrs. Curley February 28, 2023 Sex Trafficking in Tennessee Introduction Human trafficking is the illegal buying and selling of people for exploitative or other nefarious purposes and is one of the modern forms of slavery. Most of the approximately 800,00 people trafficked over international boundaries each year are under 18, and 80% are women or girls (Browder, 2018). People are still being trafficked for sexual exploitation and forced labor in Tennessee and throughout the rest of the world. Human trafficking does not occur only in one geographical region.
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.
As previously mentioned, anyone can be the prey of a trafficker, typically those who are in a vulnerable state. At only the age of fourteen, a woman named Holly Austin Smith had been taken into the sex trafficking trade. This was during the time period between the transition from middle school to high school where she found herself struggling to fit in with her friends, while dealing with family problems. Through her description, it was a time where she was waiting and wanting to connect with someone, and stated “I was looking for someone to acknowledge me in some way” (Smith). Although she had been previously sexually abused by a relative, and suffered from depression after this, her new encounter opened other doors.
Human trafficking produces billions of dollars in profit every year, it is right behind drug trafficking as the most lucrative form of crime throughout the world. (DHS website). Victims of human trafficking rarely come forward due to the threats of murder, threats of killing their loved ones/friends, as well as having nowhere else to go because they have been ostracized from their own family and their “pimp” is their family. Another issue of why victims do not come forward is that they are afraid of law enforcement so they may go to jail, etc. (DHS website)
The United States abolished slavery in 1865, the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states, "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude...shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction" (The United States Constitution). We never thought that over one-hundred years later there would be a new form of slavery that has affected so many people around the globe. Human trafficking is another name for modern-day slavery, where the victims involved are forced, coerced and deceived into labor and sexual exploitation. Most human trafficking victims are forced into the trade by the false promises made regarding job opportunities. Many women from third world countries are lured into this trade with the bait of false marriages or false jobs.
Even though it is not looked at as a form of trafficking, prostitution; it is a big problem in this
World Wide there is a very big problem of human trafficking. One source says “It is estimated that 15,000 to 50,000 women/men including children are forced into sexual slavery in the United States every year.” (Deliver Fund) This number should be zero, people like Elizabeth Frazier and Hundreds of others have to go through sex trafficking. It is violating human rights and has led to many mental health issues for people who have to go through it, It can be tough to tell if it's happening to someone and perpetrators can cover it up very well.
Human trafficking is one of the largest and most prevalent issues that affects all walks of life both domestically and internationally. Human trafficking is not only a horrendous crime but a major human rights violation, impacting public health. “Human trafficking is a form of modern day slavery” . Human trafficking is the taking of a person with the intent to exploit them through, sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery/servitude, or the removal of organs.
Women and girls are trafficked internally for commercial sex. Children are subject to involuntary servitude as factory workers, domestic servants, beggars, agricultural workers and many times they are also sexually abused by their owners. No crime can be worse than this. Also, some prostitutes become victims of human trafficking.
They will do everything they can to not be in a place were they could be abandoned again. Wether it be to lie or cheat or even hurt other people. This is what I believe to be the main root of trafficking. Other reasons I have found for trafficking are kidnapping, poverty, greed, lust, abuse, control, fear, pedophilia, and the economy. I have experienced this first hand, I have seen the hurt and pain it causes.
Sex trafficking is the forcing or manipulation of someone, usually women and children, to perform the act of sex (Orme & Ross-Sheriff, 287). Adolescents and women are taken to work in the trade for many reasons. For youth, homeless, runaways, as well as abused teens are the easiest target because they have nowhere to go, they give into bribes of predators such as food, housing, relationships, and financial aid. Youth with mental or physical complications are also sought out by traffickers. Any sign of something wrong or that might suggest weakness is taken note of for traffickers to take a child or teen.
According to “11 Facts About Human Trafficking,” “between 14,500 and 17,500 people are trafficked into the United States each year. Human trafficking is the third largest international crime industry (behind illegal drugs and arms trafficking). It reportedly generates a profit of $32 billion every year. Human trafficking victims can easily be exposed to STD’s, HIV/AIDS, untreatable diseases and many more severe health problems. Just like Human Trafficking, those involved in slavery were also easily exposed to these kind of obstacles.
The contemplation of human trafficking alone is looked down upon and outsiders are easily angered, but no action is taken place to implement change (Honeyman, K. L., Stukas, A. A., & Marques, M. D.,
Offenders are split up into varying jobs from recruiters in the country of origin, to transporters, and can even be the receivers of trafficked humans in the destination country (Bruckert 2002). There is not one individual responsible for this crime and therefore it makes sense for this to be a learned behavior. When looking at the literature it is clear that these varying offenders typically have four different stages in committing these acts of human trafficking. In the first stage they typically try and recruit their victims by luring them by using some sort of deception or fraud. A lot of these offenders do not necessarily use violence in order to attain their victims, but rather their victims fall prey to the promise of a better life or enhanced economic opportunities (Shelley 2010).
“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.