Prostitution: A Case Study

Even after slavery was legally abolished in the nineteenth century, this problem is known to still exist in today’s world. Human trafficking has existed since before the 1400s beginning in Europe with their slave trade in Africa with the Portuguese. Moving along to 1562 and up the British and other countries joined in on the slave trade with Africans. In 1904 an agreement tiled “ International Agreement for the Suppression of White Slave Trade” was signed and this agreement was to protect women, at an old or young age, from being involved in the white slave trade which was known for prostitution. Due to the non-strict preposition of this agreement, individuals believed that this agreement was put into place to maintain a certain amount of white …show more content…
Though this Act was to prevent and had efforts to control trafficking, this Act failed to protect women that were forced into prostitution. In 1995 the United Nations held a conference to address the issues of trafficking of women. In this conference, trafficking was recognized as an act of violence against women and most importantly actions to help decrease the number of trafficking were developed. Some actions were enforcing international conventions on trafficking and human slavery, addressing the factors that encourages trafficking, setting up law enforcement and institutions who would work to eliminate trafficking both internationally and nationally, and also by implementing programs including educational and rehabilitation institutions to provide for the victims of trafficking. A case emerged in 2008 where several immigrants who were found to be illegally smuggled into Thailand by traffickers. Fifty-seven of these individuals that were illegally transported suffocated to death during their transportation. The drivers fled when they found these individuals dead because they knew that police would become suspicious at check …show more content…
The tier placements are reports of trafficking in persons, these countries are categorized in what the government of the country complies with the standards of the law. The tier two-watch lists are those governments that do not fully comply with those standards. Guatemala is also placed in this tier because the numbers of victims of trafficking are significant and are significantly increasing and there is failure to provide information on their efforts on tackling trafficking. Since 2001, Guatemala’s ranking has changed throughout. Though there are three tiers, Guatemala is placed in the middle but work still needs to be implemented in order to aid trafficking victims and prosecute