For anyone who is trafficked, his or her whole life will be destroyed. However, one kind of human trafficking has recently begun to attract local, national and international attention——women trafficking. From available statistics, about 800,000 people are trafficked each year worldwide for forced labor, domestic servitude or sexual exploitation (Khowaja et al 19). Furthermore, what is the most remarkable to people is that although men are also persecuted, predominantly those trafficked are women. About 500,000 women are brought into the United States of America and Europe yearly for sexual and domestic servitude (Akor …show more content…
Poverty includes lack of access to basic services, insecurity in daily life and disempowerment as human agency (Khowaja et al 19). Women in some parts of the world are the most vulnerable to the trafficking phenomenon. The largest number of victims trafficked internationally come from Southeast Asia and is over 225,000 each year. (Khowaja et al 19). Of the over 70,000 African victims of women trafficking, Nigerian women account for 70 percent of those trafficked to Italy alone (Akor 89). What is more, Pakistan is both the country of origin and destination for women trafficking. Because of poverty, these women are more likely to be deceived by traffickers. In order to have a chance to earn money, those innocent girls and women tend to ignore all the risks and fate that await them in their country of destination. Because of the prospect of making easy money, they are easily carried away by traffickers in order to get so-called good job opportunity. Furthermore, in most poor homes parents can barely meet the legitimate needs of their children, so that financial distress of many poor parents makes them vulnerable to the deceit of traffickers who promise their children juicy life. Using this kind of deception, women and innocent young girls are more likely to leave their homes and follow the traffickers. When they realize that it is a trafficking organization, it is impossible for them to get