Human Sex Trafficking
Thinking, have you ever turned blind eyes to many of the world's problems? Imagine this, standing in front of a hotel and you notice two men with a child. The child looks gloomy, and seems to be glancing around in hopes of something special to happen. With the quick exchange of money, a deal was done and the child follows their new trafficker, that’s when you’ll notice human trafficking.It’s everywhere, and we can try to make a difference. If we can find ways to prevent human trafficking and help the victims, I’m sure things may get better. The big question that we all wonder about, how do traffickers get their victims? It’s a easy to answer question, yet it’s so cruel. Usually one wouldn’t think about how traffickers
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Since victims go to many places within their career as a sex slave, traffickers hold onto their passports, making it illegal for them to be there. Because of this, victims cannot leave their traffickers unless they want to be found there illegally and arrested by the police. Traffickers also have a bond with the victims, these bonds is to keep the victims with them and crush any thought of victims running away from them. The bonds between traffickers and victims matter greatly, because it’s what forces victims to continue their undesired sexual work. There are multiple types of bonds, one of the common bonds are dependant on debt. The victims with a debt bond are forced to do sexual work to pay off travel and care fees for the trafficker. Another type of bond is surrounded by false affection.This bond is where the trafficker pretends to care for the victim, making them seem important to the trafficker, and the victim blindly accepts the false affection. A third bond is what I call a “threat” bond. The trafficker would threaten the victims, saying that they will kill the victims families, or friends, if they run away, and if they are caught running away they may be killed. Although victims have all these hardships, things have been …show more content…
This nation was once a disaster, this place was where traffickers sold children out on the streets and where foreigners bribed unaware street kids into trafficking. Basically, it was once a gigantic trafficking mess, but the reformation of the nation made it seem unbelievable, it’s now a nation where there is barely any trafficking. Almost everyone in Cambodia contributed to the effort to reform the nation, and now there are even harsh laws against traffickers. The nation also went a step further and designated anti-trafficking police to ensure safety. So, wherever you look in Cambodia there are no children being sold or victims being bought in the red light districts. As you can see, if nations all strive to make a difference we can change the continuous cycle of human sex trafficking. Human trafficking is everywhere and whatever we do, it won’t go away, but we can help to change it. We can do whatever is possible, like giving support to freed victims and doing our best to prevent human sex trafficking. By realizing that human trafficking is worldwide and that the victims want freedom, that has motivated many of us to try and help the victims of human trafficking. Would you want to try and help the victims, maybe you won’t get involved, but remember that it’s everywhere you
Nothing drives emotions out the window more than hearing about innocent children being used for sex. In Cambodia, sex trafficking has grown into a troublesome issue. Sex trafficking has become one of the fastest growing crimes occurring internationally. It is the third largest crime-business in the world, after drugs and arms trafficking. Women, girls, and even men and boys are victims of the billion-dollar sex trafficking industry. Sex trafficking occurs everywhere, and it is not culturally specific, but a gender specific issue. There are numerous cases of sex trafficking within Cambodia, however child sex trafficking is extremely captivating and distressing to learn about.
Human Trafficking is serious, you may think that it doesn't affect you, you may think that you can’t do anything about it because the world of Human Trafficking is so much bigger than we as humans can comprehend. Over 27 million people are still trapped in Human Trafficking, and those are the documented people. This is the largest number of slaves ever recorded in history. The majority of trafficking happens in cities like our own. In fact, Houston is one of the top hubs in America when it comes to Human Trafficking. Homeless children – desperate for food, shelter and comfort – are
Every year, a countless number of men, women, and children are thrown into human trafficking, unwillingly.
Ss the great Ben Franklin said “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are” until everyone takes an active step to ending human trafficking, it won't happen. But many individuals have stepped up to take a role fighting human trafficking. Such as Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi who has fought to protect the rights of 83000 children, often putting himself in harm’s way to do so. Once, just as Kailash once heard of a man who sold his 15 year old daughter to a brick maker. Right away Kailash tried to get in but was repelled by the armed guards and the mass amount of people. He then convinced a judge to send him with a police force to the place, and managed to save the 15 year old girl and many others. once said “ Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here.” Which is true, as if humanity doesn't defend it's morals, humanity is at stake, and humanity itself is a far time away from getting rid of human
All over the world adults and children are victims of trafficking each year. These victims are in dangerous situations. Every year human trafficking continues to grow and expand every year. It is almost never ending. These victims are tortured and abused and they are being considered slaves. Many women and children
Traffickers are the economically powerful and dominant group in our society and victims are the economic minority (Dunn, 2007, p. 42-43). Victims also strip of their identifications, passports and money by the traffickers and are said to owe the traffickers a debt for transportation. Traffickers are led by greed and display their dominance by victimizing children through the use of control, deception, manipulation, violence and sex until they bend and break the trafficked child into doing whatever is asked of them (“Survivor Stories”, 2014). Traffickers also take children away from everything that they know, such as their families and their countries and so they are literally dependent on their traffickers for everything.
This growing issue deserves attention for the main reasons that the success/rescue rate is so low. Only 1-2% of victims taken into sex trafficking are ever rescued (A21, 2016). This low rescue rate can be related to the low percentage of awareness and knowledge of the issue. Most Americans don’t know what sex trafficking looks like or how it can be spotted. This problem is also deserving of concern because the innocent lives that are being stripped of their moral rights. No human life on this planet deserves this level of torture and abuse like the kind endured of sex trafficking. The first step to problem solving isn’t necessarily if you abolish the issue or not, but to advocate and be proactive on the
Traffickers want their victims to feel as alone and helpless as possible, because it allows for the most power and control over them. Victims are sometimes viewed as no more than possessions or animals, and are treated in the most degrading and cruel ways imaginable. In a story entitled, “Teen Girls’ Stories of Sex Trafficking in U.S.,” ABC News reported a story on two girls from Phoenix who were forced into the sex trade (Teen 1). Both of them suffered harsh treatment from their captors. One girl was held at gunpoint, kept in a dog cage and “crushed into a drawer under a bed”
Around the world and right here in the United States, Human Trafficking is a form of modern slavery. The difficult comprehension of this human reality within our own communities, makes this travesty hard to combat. Understanding the pervasiveness, the reality of the crime and the impact it has on a community are a call to action for all of us.
To the minds of most, slavery seems to be a non-existent issue nowadays; however, human enslavement remains a problematic concern throughout the world. For instance, present-day subjugation of humans includes mainly the trafficking of children, women, but men too are forced into the perverse crime of sex trafficking. Throughout the southeast Asian countries especially, sex trafficking has increasingly become corrupt. The sexual exploitation has become out of control in which thousands of lives every year are dehumanized as well as mentally and physically abused because of high demand for sex and ravenous greed for money.
Human trafficking is an epidemic around the world. It doesn’t just happen once in a great while, but it’s happening all the time. Every single day, people are involved in human trafficking. People need to help raise awareness of what is going on around the world, and we are definitely not doing enough to help stop this issue. Also, the way the women and children are being treated is absolutely horrible. They are beaten, starved, and even murdered. In almost every situation, they can’t do anything about it because they are scared for their lives. Society as a whole needs to be more educated about human trafficking.
One of the most talked about issues our country is facing today, and will be facing in the upcoming years is the idea of human trafficking, whether it be for labor or sex trades. There was an estimated 4.5 billion people in 2014 that were victims of sex trafficking around the world (Gary). The sex trafficking industry, which is the most common form of human trafficking, is an extremely inhumane trade that takes girls, strips them of their privacy, and forces them to perform sexual act that ultimately scars them both mentally and physically forever. Daily average females are being forced into this industry where they experience years of unimaginable abuse and torture; and sadly have a hard time escaping.
I found a very hopefully promise from Angelina Jolie slavery today video which is as the scale of the human trafficking it hard to imagine, as a result,every twenty-three minutes more than twenty woman have been trafficked, so their life changes forever in horrible ways. However,there is hope,with help victims trafficking rebuild their lives and together we can bring the change. From now
It’s terrifying to know that there are unsolvable issues beyond and in our own cities. As we turn on our local news channels, we often see bolded headlines that contain events in which someone has been abducted, beaten, and even murdered. We observe the effects of evil from our living room and wish there was a way to better the issues that feel heavy with our hearts. We begin to dread the days that follow because we fear the next headline will be news of a loved one. It reaches a point where everything feels as if it has collapsed inside and there is no fix. Human trafficking is one out of many of those issues, but with the help of those who feel lost and weak because of it, we can try to scare off any further occurrences by taking action
While people are generally aware of the happenings in human trafficking, much of the general public doesn’t fully grasp the problems deriving from them. When asking a CU student about what she knew about Human Trafficking, all she could reply is “I know that it’s a problem in this world and that a lot of women suffer from it”. (Gopsill) Fortunately for these individuals ignorance is bliss, for the predicaments are seldom favorable. Those who are