Background Human sex trafficking is a horrible violation of a human’s rights that effect every person in every country of the world. It is estimated that in America in the alone the number of people who victims of sex trafficked is 600,000- 800,000. (). There are 195 countries in the world, all of which has a problem with sex tracking. That is over a million people that are having their basic human rights taken away and being treated no more than a possession. Definition: Sharehope international has a clear-cut definition of sex trafficking. They defend sex trafficking as ‘when someone uses force, fraud or coercion to cause a commercial sex act with and adult or causes a minor to commit a commercial sex act.’() This means not only the
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Traffickers/ pimps is someone who targets a victim for a prostitute. They are always looking for the next victim, most of whom are people in vulnerable positions. The Traffickers/pimps sale the victims to the buyers, people who pay for the use of a sex trafficking slaves. In a large percentage of case the Traffickers and buyers are all art of a larger group called organized crime (Jodi Jordan, Bina Patel, and Lisa Rapp). These are the people who organize most of the trade and control traffickers through either debt or they are lower members of the organized crime …show more content…
The people behind Polaris are working on three sides of the fight to stop human trafficking. The first front that Polaris works on is helping victims to get back into their lives after they have been rescued. The second front is that they try to prevent more victims from human trafficking though education and campaigning. The third front is try to use data and technology to find traffickers and their operations. (polaris) Advocates for freedom (AFF) is a local non-profit faith based organization that works to help prevent human sex trafficking in the Mississippi gulf coast. The AFF works with several groups of people all over the state and country to try to educate and build awareness of human trafficking abroad and locally. The programs want to increase the public to “look beneath the surface and help find a solution to human trafficking” (AFF) The AFF believes that this is posable by making the public aware to the struggles of the human slave trade and showing that it is not just a national problem but a local problem.
Social workers
Traffickers/ pimps is someone who targets a victim for a prostitute. They are always looking for the next victim, most of whom are people in vulnerable positions. The Traffickers/pimps sale the victims to the buyers, people who pay for the use of a sex trafficking slaves. In a large percentage of case the Traffickers and buyers are all art of a larger group called organized crime (Jodi Jordan, Bina Patel, and Lisa Rapp). These are the people who organize most of the trade and control traffickers through either debt or they are lower members of the organized crime …show more content…
The people behind Polaris are working on three sides of the fight to stop human trafficking. The first front that Polaris works on is helping victims to get back into their lives after they have been rescued. The second front is that they try to prevent more victims from human trafficking though education and campaigning. The third front is try to use data and technology to find traffickers and their operations. (polaris) Advocates for freedom (AFF) is a local non-profit faith based organization that works to help prevent human sex trafficking in the Mississippi gulf coast. The AFF works with several groups of people all over the state and country to try to educate and build awareness of human trafficking abroad and locally. The programs want to increase the public to “look beneath the surface and help find a solution to human trafficking” (AFF) The AFF believes that this is posable by making the public aware to the struggles of the human slave trade and showing that it is not just a national problem but a local problem.
Social workers