Argumentative Essay On Human Trafficking

Christine Caine is a Christian speaker who goes around to many different functions and talks about her Christian faith. I heard her speak for the first time at Motion 15 in Birmingham, Alabama. But she isn’t just a speaker; she and her husband found the A 21 Campaign that helps fight human trafficking. “Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, mainly for the purposes of forced labor and sex trafficking. As the world's fastest growing criminal industry, it affects every nation across the globe. Every 30 seconds, someone becomes a victim of modern-day slavery. There are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe. Men, women, and children are being exploited for manual and sexual labor against their will” (“THE PROBLEM”). This campaign believes in four things as follows: Prevention, Protection, Partnerships, and Prosecution. Some may ask what these mean, and how do these four actions work in part with human trafficking. Well the answer is simply, Prevention is the act of “working
A 2005 International Labour Organization report estimates that among the 8.1 million persons in forced labor by private agents and enterprises globally, 2.5 million are trafficked. Among half of these 1.4 to 1.7 million are ranging along a sequence of debt bondage, rape, terrorism, and torture” (Stone 2). “So it’s not that the world has suddenly realized that its women are being kidnapped and raped. The only difference is that today it’s flourishing as never before. One wonders, however, if the “difference” producing the realization he describes is, in fact, also related to skin color, ethnicity, and nation of origin” (Stone