Human trafficking

Human Trafficking Around 30 million people are enslaved in our world today (“Modern Slavery”). This is nearly four percent of our world's population. That might not seem like a lot, it is still four percent more than there should be. Today we are living in a society that believes to have so called ended slavery long ago. However, this is an untrue statement people have taken on as the truth. Slavery still exists in the world today! It isn’t called slavery anymore, it is referred to as…

Human trafficking is the trade of humans for different types of reasons. Smuggling Humans involves the procurement for financial gain or other material benefit of illegal entry of a person into a country of which the person is not a resident of. There are three topics that I’m going to cover. Firstly, the statistics to human trafficking and why people do it. Secondly, the different types of human trafficking. Lastly, the consequences for the victims of human trafficking. To start off, the…

elimination of human trafficking. Furthermore, Mexico is a source, transit, and destination country. Men women and children are often subject to sex trafficking and forced labor. Moreover, those who are most at risk are, the disabled, women, children, transgender individuals and migrants. On a different note, Mexico’s TIP rating has remained steady at Tier 2, since 2009. The interagency anti-trafficking commission and federal government met twice in one year to attempt to coordinate anti-human…

Human trafficking is a global problem and has been around for hundreds of years. But not many people are aware of it and even if they are aware they have no clue how to help or contribute to the awareness campaign. What are the effects of human trafficking in Malaysia, Cuba, and The United States? How effective are laws at preventing it? The United States have set up a program known as TIP(Trafficking In Persons) report which analyzes what other countries are doing to prevent human trafficking.…

throughout the world in the form of human trafficking. According to the Department of Human Services, human trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery involving the illegal trade of people for exploitation or commercial gain (“What is Human”). As a global issue, victims are targeted everywhere from the United States to Nigeria, Nepal, and even India. There are many components that contribute to the unfortunate truth that slavery still occurs. Human trafficking has become an increasingly…

By increasing awareness of sex trafficking among teens in suburban areas, the instances of sex trafficking can be reduced. Sex/Human Trafficking is defined by the U.S. Department of Justice “as the act of forcing a person to perform labor or a commercial sex act through force, fraud or coercion” (Faherty, 2013). This definition provided a basis of information to base research off of. Teens are considered to be people ages 13 to 18. By researching how to educate and therefore prevent teens in…

Underidentification of Human Trafficking Victims in the United States by Elizabeth K.Hopper, Harper‘s informing reader about rates of human trafficking reports, how they are significantly low. Thousands of people are being trafficked each year in the US and only a few cases are reported. Lack of awareness, information, and limits on protections acts are contributing factors to the underidentification of traffic victims. Getting a better understanding of the factors and finding ways to decrease…

there are some things money can’t buy. Human beings are not one of them. Globally, the average cost of a slave is $90 (Dosomething.org). According to the United Nations’ Trafficking Protocol, human trafficking is defined as “the recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring or receipt of a person by such means as threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud or deception for the purpose of exploitation." (United Nations Trafficking Protocol Art. 3.a) All around the…

aware of human trafficking. Human Trafficking: Duty of a citizen The era of slavery is considered as one of the darkest times in our history and as something that does not exist in the present day. Unfortunately, slavery still exists on an even greater scale than before. Human trafficking is an illegal trade or sale of human beings for sexual exploitation or forced labor through abduction (Facts on Human Trafficking and Sex Slavery). According to Farr (2005), the industry of human trafficking…

Human trafficking can be a touchy subject, as most people want to turn a blind eye to it. The horrors of human trafficking are so foreign to many, unlike causes that people can identify with because they know someone that it directly affects. However, the healing cannot start unless people start to educate themselves about how human trafficking affects the world and how they can help alleviate those effects. Human trafficking is more prevalent than people think and affects the world in many ways…