Sex trafficking is one of types of modern slavery. Sex trafficking is “the illegal business of recruiting, harboring, transporting, obtaining, or providing a person and especially a minor for the purpose of sex” (“sex trafficking”). Slavery has been around for thousands of years, before the 1400’s. Africans were forced away from their homes and shipped to be sold as slaves by the Europeans. In 1562 Britain also joined in the selling of the slaves. By the 1600’s other colonies would sell slaves and raising the number of slaves being own and bought. “Later on, throughout the 1600s, other countries became more involved in the European slave trade. These included Spain, North America, Holland, France, Sweden, and Denmark (Agatucci)” (Rutgers University
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This treaty was one of the first multilateral treaties to address issues of human trafficking and slavery. During WWII Japan created a system where across Asia would be forced into sex slavery. About 200,000 women were put in comfort stations, with horrible conditions. The women were forced to give sexual services to soldiers, if they did not do as told their as punishment the woman would receive beatings or worse. The government created these stations to contain rape crimes, the spread of STDs, and to keep the soldiers from sharing military secrets. After going through the horror of sex trafficking, victims develop psychological and physical effects. Effects are drug and alcohol addiction, broken bones, concussions, traumatic brain injury, dizziness, headaches, numbness, sexually transmitted diseases, sterility, miscarriages or forced abortions, and other diseases like TB and hepatitis. Psychological effects include shame, grief, distrust, self-hatred, suicide and suicide thoughts. “At very high risk for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) which can include anxiety, depression, insomnia, physical hyper-alertness, and self-loathing”
This treaty was one of the first multilateral treaties to address issues of human trafficking and slavery. During WWII Japan created a system where across Asia would be forced into sex slavery. About 200,000 women were put in comfort stations, with horrible conditions. The women were forced to give sexual services to soldiers, if they did not do as told their as punishment the woman would receive beatings or worse. The government created these stations to contain rape crimes, the spread of STDs, and to keep the soldiers from sharing military secrets. After going through the horror of sex trafficking, victims develop psychological and physical effects. Effects are drug and alcohol addiction, broken bones, concussions, traumatic brain injury, dizziness, headaches, numbness, sexually transmitted diseases, sterility, miscarriages or forced abortions, and other diseases like TB and hepatitis. Psychological effects include shame, grief, distrust, self-hatred, suicide and suicide thoughts. “At very high risk for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) which can include anxiety, depression, insomnia, physical hyper-alertness, and self-loathing”