Essay About Human Trafficking

Albeit the fact that slavery was banned by several international agreements and treaties, beginning with the Slavery Convention of the League of Nations (1926), for tens of millions of people worldwide, slavery never ended. Estimately, there is still 27 million people held in “some form of bondage”, based on anti-slavery groups like Free the Slaves. Slavery is particularly prevalent in today’s Sudan, India, Pakistan, and Ukraine; a humongous number of sex-trafficking victims are also transported to the U.S. and Japan every year. Human trafficking is now a $12-billion-a-year global industry. According to the article, kidnapping is the most common means for today’s traffickers to obtain people, in addition, victims are very likely to be lured by promising jobs. But the reality is that they are forced to work as bonded laborers. Lots of victims are also “tied to lifetime servitude because their father or grandfather borrowed money they couldn’t repay”. To prevent slaves from escaping, traffickers keep victims’ passports and use violence.
There is a multitude of contributing factors to today’s prevalence of human trafficking, including extreme poverty, globalization, gender inequality, the lack of education, and natural disaster, etc. Speaking of poverty, “Being poor doesn’t make you a slave, but it does make you vulnerable to being a
When it comes to current legislations that combat human trafficking, the 2000 Trafficking Victims Protection Act mandates the cutoff of “most non-humanitarian U.S. aid for any nation deemed not trying hard enough to address the problem”. The law also allows U.S. authorities to charge alleged traffickers and makes it easier for trafficked victims to acquire refugee status in the U.S.. But such act is criticized for it’s not tough enough -- “It allows countries to void sanctions with just superficial acts,” said the Polaris Project’s