Although slavery was abolished in the United States of America in 1865 according to the Thirteenth Amendment, the use of selling and abusing the will of human beings continues to increase. In 2000, the United States of America developed the legislation to stop the sale and exploitation of human beings. Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-386), is a law that prohibits labor trafficking and sex trafficking. Labor trafficking are individuals performing labor or services through the use of coercion, force and fraud. Labor trafficking also includes situations of debt bondage, forced labor and involuntary child labor. Sex trafficking involves the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, and obtaining of a human being for the purpose of a commercial sex act. This act is induced by
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As will be discussed later, factors such as global economic and political instability in certain parts of the world, together with large-scale and epidemic instances of poverty and disfranchisement of entire groups of people, contribute to making humans exposed victims of human trafficking. As a result of these factors, it becomes very easy to trick individuals into believing that employment opportunities will help alleviate their economic sorrows. Most victims of human trafficking are both convinced and recruited to seek employment, usually in a foreign country. Recruiters are mostly often associates and friends from their town and most times even their spouse or significant other. Promises of a better life are used to deceive victims who are already desperate to financially provide for their families and themselves as well. Sometimes, victims are recruited through the advertisement in the local newspapers. Again, the ads bring opportunities to work abroad as domestic cooks or servants, dancers, models and anything else that would entice a person to answer such
As will be discussed later, factors such as global economic and political instability in certain parts of the world, together with large-scale and epidemic instances of poverty and disfranchisement of entire groups of people, contribute to making humans exposed victims of human trafficking. As a result of these factors, it becomes very easy to trick individuals into believing that employment opportunities will help alleviate their economic sorrows. Most victims of human trafficking are both convinced and recruited to seek employment, usually in a foreign country. Recruiters are mostly often associates and friends from their town and most times even their spouse or significant other. Promises of a better life are used to deceive victims who are already desperate to financially provide for their families and themselves as well. Sometimes, victims are recruited through the advertisement in the local newspapers. Again, the ads bring opportunities to work abroad as domestic cooks or servants, dancers, models and anything else that would entice a person to answer such