The main purpose of sex trafficking is to lure women into a business in where they render their freedom and consent, and be sold to the highest bidder in foreign markets. In the article, “The Natasha Trade: the Transnational Shadow Market of Trafficking in Women” the author denotes the primary countries in where it was most solicited the trafficking of humans, “For decades the primary sending countries were Asian countries, such as Thailand and the Philippines. The collapse of the Soviet Union opened up a pool of millions of women from which traffickers can recruit” (Hughes 1). It proves the advancement of criminal networks in Eastern European and Asian countries, and the collaboration that was set by these illegal organizations to increase the sex labor demand. In developing countries it is of crucial need to combat this modern day slavery and find distinct alternatives that can counteract transnational trafficking. The author Donna Hughes mentions various narratives in her article, she gives first hand evidence on the corruption of sex businesses and the emotional and physical abuse that women surpass by their owners. The data that is presented is relevant to migration and transnational patterns that delineate the revenue that is obtained by the sex industry, “Russian and Ukrainian traffickers used this cover to bring 10,000 …show more content…
Many trafficking protection acts have been created to assist combating trafficking overseas to secure U.S. victims, and strengthen the prosecution of the offenders. In the article, “Of vice and men: A new approach to eradicating sex trafficking by reducing male demand through educational programs and abolitionist legislation,” the author states the main relevancy in the voluntarily and involuntarily servitude status on the sexual labor; and extensive research on the congressional hearing. The author is able to denote the legislation that relate to the illegal trafficking and provide extensive knowledge on the national policies for this matter. The pandemic disease known as human trafficking kept progressing so U.S. governmental action needed to be taken, “In 2000, 117 nations (including the United States) adopted the United Nations ' new anti-trafficking protocol, which defined "trafficking in persons" as the "recruitment, transportation and harboring of another person for the purpose of exploitation” (Yen 654). The article comments further on how it has become a global issue that captivates the concerns from many educational institutions, and conduct researches on the practitioners of this business. The United States has created stronger laws that implement federal penalties on the illegal organization criminal activity. The author focuses on the strict laws that are passed by the U.S. and the estimated