Ethical Issues: The Fight Against Human Trafficking

Ethical Issues plays a very important role in fight against human trafficking. Every person should do right things to prevent HUMAN trafficking. Empowering workers, adopting zero tolerance policies, requiring that staff to conduct themselves at the highest standard of behaviour at all times and treat one another with dignity.
There is one ethical consideration that is complex and highly sensitive topic of sex trafficking. A very bad violation of human rights, it is considered as a multibillion dollar industry. Children are the most vulnerable population that are particularly targeted.
It is estimated that over 2 million children each year fall to sexual exploitation (Virginia Kendall, 2012, p. 2) How can this overwhelmingly complex and diversified
Governments need to hold themselves and each other accountable to these mandates, and enforce them. Backlash exists regarding the overwhelming figures pointing towards sex trafficking, and the discrepancy in the minute number of cases of arrests, prosecution and convictions of perpetrators. This is unacceptable, trafficking prosecutions must be thoroughly carried through. As it stands, it is the sex worker who is criminalized. When the roles are reversed and the victim is not criminalized, the face of sexual exploitation changes. In Sweden, law was passed in 1999 prohibiting the purchase of sex. The resulting figures point to a 40% drop in prostitution.[7] To ground the argument of sex trafficking being a violation of human rights, it can be applied to the claim of John Rawls in his work Law of Peoples. A renowned moral philosopher, Rawls explains that there is a way for international politics to function appropriately and with justice. Responsibility is placed on to the State to take care of its population, and he also outlines appropriate times when intervention must occur by outside States. This intervention is necessary when justice is undermined. Specifically, he addresses