Prostitution of children

In countries all around the globe, children and young adults sell their bodies, are abused, work like animals, and even have their organs removed all for the profit of strangers. Many people believe that Human Trafficking only consists of teenage girls, when little do they know, it involves men as well as many small children, and even victims of older ages. Also the assumption is that all Human Trafficking is just for sexual exploitation, when there are many more aspects that can fall under…

Over One-hundred thousand children and young women are trafficked in America today. Ranging from ages nine to nineteen with the average age being eleven. Two victims that faced this horrific act is 19-year old Miya and 15-year old Debbie. Debbie was kidnapped by two men with the help of her friend Bianca, they abducted her from her own driveway. Miya was working at her job in the mall when she was approached by a couple who offered her a modeling gig. She later learned that her pictures were put…

Human trafficking is a term for forced labor or prostitution. It is a practice of illegally transporting people from one country to another. Human trafficking has been going on all across the world for years. The question here is, how do we stop it? How do we keep people safe from it happening to them or their children even? There are many different types of human trafficking going on in the world, but I will only speak about two today. I will talk about sex trafficking, and forced labor. Sex…

The novel Sold, by Patricia McCormick, follows a young girl, Lakshmi, a thirteen year old girl, and her family living in a small village in Nepal struggling to make ends meet. Lakshmi’s biological father has died so her mother remarries an alcoholic but it is considered that any man is better than no man at all. When the Himalayan monsoons destroy her family's crops, Lakshmi’s step-father meets a woman who claims she will take Lakshmi to be a maid in the city, and he sends her away. After what…

multi-billion dollar industry that denies freedom to ordinary people around the world (Polaris). The two most common types of human trafficking are labor and sex, with sex trafficking being the most popular. Sex trafficking can occur in the forms of prostitution, child pornography, coercive sex and/or sex escorts (Polaris). A worldwide campaign, The Polaris Project, aims to stop the everlasting issue of human trafficking through six ways: client services, policy advocacy, training and technical…

Initially, when one hears the word empowerment, they may think of it as literally giving someone social or political power. That is not necessarily wrong, but it is so much more than that. As Charlotte Bronte states in Jane Eyre, “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me. I am a free human being with an independent will” (277). That is empowerment- feeling as though one has complete control over themselves and the situations in their lives. This awareness can then be turned outward through educating…

person, taking away their freedom and dignity. Zach Weissmueller is from Ipswich, Massachusetts. There, he published the article, “The Wrong Cure for Sex Trafficking”. The article takes a much different approach to the reasoning and ways to end prostitution, and the ways to spread awareness. Biswas’ article about the ways human trafficking is wrong is the better argument because unlike Weissmueller who…

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…

globally.” In the article, “Between Two Worlds”, we see how African migrants who are trying to find better jobs and living get picked off by traffickers and a striped of money and items. Then these migrants are used either as forced labor or forced prostitution. “Migrants become captives of people who have, by now, already emptied their pockets,” these people just want a new life and others want to ruin it. When captured, they lose everything but their identity, and some still want to try and…

as a modern day form of slavery. Sex trafficking is a problem all over the world that affects almost every country. But Southeast Asian countries, like Thailand, are more notoriously known for sex trafficking. Sex trafficking victims are women and children who aren’t seen as people, but as objects that make people money. Many of the women that are thrown into the sex trafficking ring have actually fled to Thailand from surrounding countries to escape poverty, oppression, and a war torn countries…