When you hear the word slavery most of you will think back to the African Slave Trade which yes it has ended and you will say slavery is nonexistent in the United States but you’re wrong. Today we live in a world where modern-day slavery is something that is still being done it just has a different name and it’s called human trafficking. Slavery hasn’t gone away and in fact we have the greatest number we have seen in history with about 20-30 million people living in some type of slavery but in the United States there’s no real accurate reports of how many people are being sex trafficked due to many cases aren’t reported, but is estimated about 15,000 each year. It’s important for everyone to know that human sex trafficking is here in our neighbored
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I wanted to learn more about this issue because it goes against human rights that occurs today and understand how the traffickers are able to get away with this crime. Human sex trafficking can affect anyone at any age, race, nationality, and gender although women and children are the most at risk next to men. Human trafficking is a growing problem that is becoming harder to stop with high profits coming in, how the internet has been an impact to the rise in trafficking, why victims are silent, and how law enforcement is helping to take this awful crime …show more content…
According to the article, “What is Human Trafficking” by Tom Lowery, he explains, for thousands of years, human sex trafficking has been happening all over the world since the beginning of time. People have been forced into sexual and physical slavery with ancient Greeks and Romans to the medieval times to even now in today society. In the 1400s, the European slave trade started trading in Africa with Portuguese people as slaves. In 1904, The International Agreement for the Suppression of White Slave Traffic was signed and put into action because this agreement was to protect a white women or girl into prostitution. In 1927, after the World War 1 the League of Nations focused on the issues of human trafficking internationally. The Suppression of White Traffic was changed from white women and girl to women and children and also during this time studies were being conducted to find out the actually number of people being trafficked. Some examples of what the studies were measured were: number of women engaged in prostitution, the demand, and the environment surrounded of women who were trafficked and the
I wanted to learn more about this issue because it goes against human rights that occurs today and understand how the traffickers are able to get away with this crime. Human sex trafficking can affect anyone at any age, race, nationality, and gender although women and children are the most at risk next to men. Human trafficking is a growing problem that is becoming harder to stop with high profits coming in, how the internet has been an impact to the rise in trafficking, why victims are silent, and how law enforcement is helping to take this awful crime …show more content…
According to the article, “What is Human Trafficking” by Tom Lowery, he explains, for thousands of years, human sex trafficking has been happening all over the world since the beginning of time. People have been forced into sexual and physical slavery with ancient Greeks and Romans to the medieval times to even now in today society. In the 1400s, the European slave trade started trading in Africa with Portuguese people as slaves. In 1904, The International Agreement for the Suppression of White Slave Traffic was signed and put into action because this agreement was to protect a white women or girl into prostitution. In 1927, after the World War 1 the League of Nations focused on the issues of human trafficking internationally. The Suppression of White Traffic was changed from white women and girl to women and children and also during this time studies were being conducted to find out the actually number of people being trafficked. Some examples of what the studies were measured were: number of women engaged in prostitution, the demand, and the environment surrounded of women who were trafficked and the