Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is a big international issue. It is the trading of people (for forced sex or labor) for a profit to the trafficker (not the victim). There is a difference between this and kidnapping; kidnapping does not always entail slavery-type actions. The numbers of trafficked humans that are victimized is growing because traffickers face little consequence. Victims in remote places of the world have a harder time of escape because of a lack of 'social networks, but this happens in America too.

Anti-Human Trafficking Campaign
Human trafficking is slavery; there are more than twenty seven million slaves today. Globalization is making it easier for human trafficking to continue because of the 'ease of conducting business across national borders.' When children are taken for sex trafficking, it is a mistake to blame them; they are the victims but a lot of people like to think of them as the criminals because they view them as prostitutes. Traffickers target teens. Children aren't always taken from their homes, they are sometimes sold to traffickers by their own parents. Terror and violence are used to keep children under control and to to keep them from trying to escape. There are already many international laws being made about trafficking.

Sex Slaves
Human trafficking happens everywhere. A 16-year-old in Florida was tricked into slavery by another 16-year-old girl. Her attackers were never charged with anything. There was another story about a woman who was taken from her house a couple of times a week to be forced to have sex; the one's that took her were boys from her high school. Her lawyer told "Today" that cases like these are very common. Today, there is a huge market for sex slavery on the Internet; sex slavery takes many forms though.

Orphaned children are primary targets
Trafficking of humans is one of the fastest growing transnational organized crimes. Boys are at risk for it too. STD's are being spread more quickly because of the conditions these sex and labor slaves are put under. Slaves don't receive very much protection against STD's or medical attention when they get them.

Child sex slave
The UNODC (United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime) is an organization that helps the fight against human trafficking, especially of women and children. The main goals of this program are to prevent further human trafficking, punish it's true criminals, and to help restore the lives of trafficked victims. There are a lot of international legal things that go on here, it is set up by the United Nations.

Human trafficking is an international problem for many reasons. It's an issue that virtually all countries share with each other; each have their own laws regarding this problem though. In my research I found out that human traffic crimes don't get reported enough and that there isn't enough action taken on them. One of the reasons that this crime is growing, besides high profit and demand, is that it is easy to get away with. It will take international cooperation of upgrading laws regarding this heinous crime and taking steps to prevent it. It spreads STD's, and leaves people in a cycle of disaster because they are, though victims, looked at as the criminals. There are many international things at work here and people can't stop working together on this modern day form of slavery stops.