The Effects Of Human Trafficking

Almost every country in the world is affected by trafficking, whether as a country of origin, transit or destination for victims. The trading of humans like one would trade property is an illegal practice. A person should never be treated as property or goods for sale, people should not be treated inhuman. However; in today’s world human trafficking has become a worldwide epidemic and the only way to reduce the occurrence of this modern day slavery is through government intervention, education and awareness. Human Trafficking is defined as the criminal commercial exchange of human beings who are subjected to involuntary acts, such as sexual exploitation or forced labor. Trafficking involves a process of using physical force, fraud, deception, or other forms of coercion or intimidation to obtain, recruit, harbor, and transport people. …show more content…
Many confuse human trafficking with immigrant smuggling and even though the two are extremely similar in nature and they both can be intertwined they are different. The difference between human trafficking and immigrant smuggling is that human trafficking is the violation of basic human rights which can occur across or within borders and is involuntary. The victim is deprived of their freedom of choice by the use of threat, coercion, force, fraud, deception, abduction or the abuse of power and the vulnerability of the victim. On the other hand immigration smuggling is a business transaction between two willing parties, no one is deceived or coerced, and the immigrant is moved across borders voluntarily by illegal