The sky turns to night, and the city lights illuminate the streets. She always dreamt of working in the big city. Why then, does she look so shattered, so weary? Hidden in plain sight she is stuck with a label, some might view, as a drugged out prostitute. She is a victim of sex trafficking, which is the illegal movement of people through force, fraud, or coercion; typically for purposes of labor or sexual exploitation, or both.
As a little girl, she had big dreams. She would stare at the clouds and wonder what she would become. Her imagination ran wild with the big, city lights and streets filled with taxis. Before school was starting, a man came to her family’s house with a golden opportunity. He promised royal wages from a computer technology …show more content…
This epidemic is neither confined to immigrants outside of the United States or any other one country, city or town. In the month I began collecting data for this paper, the percentage of youth trafficked in Nevada rose on average about 7%. The Polaris Project now reports 82% to 85% of youth being picked up and trafficked, either nationally or internationally in and throughout all of Nevada. Moreover, worldwide only 0.3 out of 100,000 persons are annually charged for these crimes. This quite simply means no one is …show more content…
Protocols set forth by the United Nations are mere recommendations formed to spread a new sentience about prostitution, immigration, and labor debit bondage practices (Greenhaven); unfortunately, there are no laws mandating any nation follow these protocols -and without recognizing the various cultural barriers that come with each nation involved, traffickers are essentially free to coerce individuals into these sex and labor rings (McDonald). Conversely, these changes have allowed organizations such as the Polaris Project to be more successful in building cases with victims and family’s to change the laws which govern and protect all individuals involved; this includes the protection of minors involved as well (Roofeh). If more states and countries would follow suit in allowing victims of trafficking to testify away from the presence of their abuser’s, there would be far more convictions and persecutions made on those who are having a first hand in the trafficking
As a little girl, she had big dreams. She would stare at the clouds and wonder what she would become. Her imagination ran wild with the big, city lights and streets filled with taxis. Before school was starting, a man came to her family’s house with a golden opportunity. He promised royal wages from a computer technology …show more content…
This epidemic is neither confined to immigrants outside of the United States or any other one country, city or town. In the month I began collecting data for this paper, the percentage of youth trafficked in Nevada rose on average about 7%. The Polaris Project now reports 82% to 85% of youth being picked up and trafficked, either nationally or internationally in and throughout all of Nevada. Moreover, worldwide only 0.3 out of 100,000 persons are annually charged for these crimes. This quite simply means no one is …show more content…
Protocols set forth by the United Nations are mere recommendations formed to spread a new sentience about prostitution, immigration, and labor debit bondage practices (Greenhaven); unfortunately, there are no laws mandating any nation follow these protocols -and without recognizing the various cultural barriers that come with each nation involved, traffickers are essentially free to coerce individuals into these sex and labor rings (McDonald). Conversely, these changes have allowed organizations such as the Polaris Project to be more successful in building cases with victims and family’s to change the laws which govern and protect all individuals involved; this includes the protection of minors involved as well (Roofeh). If more states and countries would follow suit in allowing victims of trafficking to testify away from the presence of their abuser’s, there would be far more convictions and persecutions made on those who are having a first hand in the trafficking