The global issue of Human Trafficking, also referred to as “modern day slavery”, has plagued societies across the world. It has risen to be the world’s third largest and most profitable transnational criminal industry (Do Something, 2014). Human Trafficking is a silent problem within states, which makes it hard for states to control and prevent the act. Trafficking operates through the dark channels of society almost completely undetectable to most of society around them. The state is well aware of the size of trafficking markets, but fails to fully target and disassemble the massive network. This is because the network is bigger and more complex than most can understand. Human Trafficking works under the radar of governmental vigilance, but
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This is because most of the major international players only act or behave on national interests. Some states would say it is because of the amount of resources like: money, time, and soldiers, it would take to intervene in the obvious negligence of the abuse of human rights. Other states would say it is because intervening in the affairs of another state could possibly escalate into an interstate conflict. Which is quite probable, especially if the relations between the states are poor and tense, politically speaking. But, few states will retort that the reason they will not interfere with the affairs of another state is because they simply do not have any national interests to do so. They fell it would serve them no benefit to involve themselves in an issue that directly has nothing to do with their own state and/or security. For many of these reasons some states are allowed to behave at will and without fear of “getting caught”. Which indirectly makes other states feel as if they can do the …show more content…
The United Nations, specifically, will be the analyzed organization concerning collective security. As for the states, their amount of prevention instruments found in their legislature defining the efforts against human trafficking will be analyzed as well. The nature of state instruments include, “Domestic anti-slavery statutes, domestic anti-human trafficking statutes, the United Nations Trafficking Protocol, European Union instruments, and other regional instruments entered into by states in coordination with other states” (Bravo, K. E., 2015.) These and other instruments will be taken into account to help determine if the United Nations is in fact better or not, at handling human trafficking within states. Human Trafficking also being a complex and controversial concept can be defined differently as seen in the following excerpts from various international and regional legislations. The United Nations Trafficking Protocol defining human trafficking reads as
This is because most of the major international players only act or behave on national interests. Some states would say it is because of the amount of resources like: money, time, and soldiers, it would take to intervene in the obvious negligence of the abuse of human rights. Other states would say it is because intervening in the affairs of another state could possibly escalate into an interstate conflict. Which is quite probable, especially if the relations between the states are poor and tense, politically speaking. But, few states will retort that the reason they will not interfere with the affairs of another state is because they simply do not have any national interests to do so. They fell it would serve them no benefit to involve themselves in an issue that directly has nothing to do with their own state and/or security. For many of these reasons some states are allowed to behave at will and without fear of “getting caught”. Which indirectly makes other states feel as if they can do the …show more content…
The United Nations, specifically, will be the analyzed organization concerning collective security. As for the states, their amount of prevention instruments found in their legislature defining the efforts against human trafficking will be analyzed as well. The nature of state instruments include, “Domestic anti-slavery statutes, domestic anti-human trafficking statutes, the United Nations Trafficking Protocol, European Union instruments, and other regional instruments entered into by states in coordination with other states” (Bravo, K. E., 2015.) These and other instruments will be taken into account to help determine if the United Nations is in fact better or not, at handling human trafficking within states. Human Trafficking also being a complex and controversial concept can be defined differently as seen in the following excerpts from various international and regional legislations. The United Nations Trafficking Protocol defining human trafficking reads as