Introduction
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) had identified human trafficking as the “acquisition of people by improper means such as force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them” (UNODC, 2016). It consists a complex system that recruiting, transporting, transferring, and harboring people by the means of threat, force, or other forms of coercion – as well as abduction, deception, fraud, or abuse of power (Department of State, 2015). President Obama had stated and been acknowledged by many world leaders that “trafficking in persons is a form of modern slavery that violates human rights, country security, economies, and public health in every state” (Collins, 2014). Also including to this definition, human trafficking had also been applied in harvesting of organs, forced labor, and sex trade and exploitation. It is no surprise that human trafficking in seen, investigated, reported, and produced numerous policies and laws to help stop or limit human trafficking around the world. Human trafficking in the regions of South-East Asia had been a long problem for the area and still lingers today. In fact, just as drug trafficking, human trafficking is not only a social issue – but also a security threat.
History – Slavery and …show more content…
From empires that used slaves to build monuments, ships, or agriculture – to prisoners of war falling to being part of the king’s or emperor’s property, which then in turn into slaves as punishment. There are those who were unable to pay back debts to the higher, ruling class had also fallen to the slavery sentencing. In this part of the paper, the transition of slavery as seen in India to human trafficking in Vietnam would help enable the understanding of different perspectives and action between the two
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) had identified human trafficking as the “acquisition of people by improper means such as force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them” (UNODC, 2016). It consists a complex system that recruiting, transporting, transferring, and harboring people by the means of threat, force, or other forms of coercion – as well as abduction, deception, fraud, or abuse of power (Department of State, 2015). President Obama had stated and been acknowledged by many world leaders that “trafficking in persons is a form of modern slavery that violates human rights, country security, economies, and public health in every state” (Collins, 2014). Also including to this definition, human trafficking had also been applied in harvesting of organs, forced labor, and sex trade and exploitation. It is no surprise that human trafficking in seen, investigated, reported, and produced numerous policies and laws to help stop or limit human trafficking around the world. Human trafficking in the regions of South-East Asia had been a long problem for the area and still lingers today. In fact, just as drug trafficking, human trafficking is not only a social issue – but also a security threat.
History – Slavery and …show more content…
From empires that used slaves to build monuments, ships, or agriculture – to prisoners of war falling to being part of the king’s or emperor’s property, which then in turn into slaves as punishment. There are those who were unable to pay back debts to the higher, ruling class had also fallen to the slavery sentencing. In this part of the paper, the transition of slavery as seen in India to human trafficking in Vietnam would help enable the understanding of different perspectives and action between the two