The National Human Trafficking Resource Center explains that Sex trafficking has been found in a wide variety of venues within the sex industry, including residential brothels, escort services, fake massage businesses, strip clubs, and street prostitution. Sex trafficking can occur where ever in the world. Globally, the International Labor Organization estimates that there are 4.5 million people trapped in forced sexual exploitation globally. person is selling somebody else’s body and this is called sex trafficking. Sex traffickers are getting rich by selling innocent bodies for a couple hours. According to UNICEF, as many as two million children are subjected to prostitution in the global commercial sex trade. It is not just adults that are being sold for a couple of hours it is also small innocent children that are being bought for a couple of…
Silbert, M. H., & Pines, A. M. (1981). Sexual child abuse as an antecedent to prostitution. Child Abuse & Neglect, 5(4), 407-411.…
Child sex trafficking is a horrible crime that is a major violation of the child’s human rights, and an extreme life-threatening form of child maltreatment (Rafferty, 2008, p. 13). Child trafficking includes the buying, selling, or stealing of children for an individual’s personal benefit. The illegal trade of children, sexual and non-sexual, is just one of the contributors to the extensive universal problem of human trafficking (Meier, 2008, p. 186). Benjamin S. Buckland (2008, p. 42), a self-employed political scholar in Geneva, describes human trafficking as a social phenomenon in which people are transported for the purpose of being exploited. Buckland’s definition is applicable for all types of human trafficking, including child sex trafficking. Unbeknownst to many, there are several types of human trafficking that are…
Human trafficking is a growing problem that is showing no sign of slowing and the internet is only adding a new element of complexity to the problem. It has been estimated that the number of victims of Domestic Minor Sexual Trafficking, which encompasses “prostitution, pornography, stripping, escort services, and other sexual services” (Kotrla, 2010, para. 5), is estimated to be at least 100,000 and a many as 300,000 each year (Cooper, 2010). In addition, it is also estimated that another 325,000 are at risk of becoming a victim of Domestic Minor Sexual Trafficking (Kotrla, 2010). A study conducted by Shared Hope International concluded that “children as young as nine years old were being sold for sex by parents or boyfriends” (Cooper, 2010, para. 4); other estimates put that age much lower at about three to four years old (Berman, 2010).…
Sex trafficking is an old profession that is increasing rapidly. Sex trafficking is the most modern-day slavery. The means of trafficking is threatening or the use of force, coercion, abduction, abuse of power or vulnerability, or giving payments or benefits to a person in control of the victim. Trafficking is for the purpose of exploitation, which includes prostitution, sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery or similar practices. Sex trafficking can have psychological affects the victims including children. Sex trafficking is expanding throughout the world and is an enormous problem in today’s society.…
Sexual trafficking is becoming more prominent in the sphere of common knowledge than it has ever been before, however, it does not even begin to touch the surface of the realities that accompany it. It is estimated that 1.2 million children and young people are exploited from global sex trade each year. Their childhoods have been ripped from them for the sake of twisted pleasure and will never be recovered.…
The problem of child soldiers nowadays has attracted public attention because we are coping with human laws and rights laws more often than we have in the past. Children comprise a substantial proportion of armed groups. It is generally agreed that the presence of children in armed conflicts is not tolerated in a civilized society.…
Child trafficking is a ghastly reality that stares in the face of the civilized global community. Children constitute one-third of India’s population i.e. 1.21 billion people, which means India is home to 400 million children and every sixth child in the world lives in India. Child trafficking is an unbearable social menace.…
One of the least recognized, yet largest world-wide crime, is human trafficking. It is the act of exchanging people for money, through the use of illegal networks that the annual cost of human trafficking is $32 billion U.S. Dollars (Connolly para. 7). With such a high amount of money being brought in, every year, it is surprising to believe that this is an underground business. What would you do if you saw a 9-year-old child walking the streets selling themselves for money? Could you walk away and pretend it was nothing? People refuse to accept the fact that this is going on in our society, but we need to face the fact that there are little kids that are forced to sell their bodies. This is a 9 million dollar industry, which makes the trafficking industry in the top three of criminal activity. Child Sex Trafficking is the modern day slavery. It is the holding of people against their will. It is mainly used with children under the age of 16. It is usually an ignored crime and victims rarely escape or seek for help. They are dependent on others to help them because they are scared. These victims that are caught by the authorities are usually just looked at as prostitutes and get arrested. There are not enough programs out there to help these victims.…
The magnitude of this problem is phenomenal. The Human Rights branch of the United Nations has estimated that “hundreds of thousands of children are involved in child prostitution and pornography in India alone. Other reports say there are 200,000 child prostitutes in Thailand, and 60,000 in the Philippines” (Lukas, 1996). These U.N. estimates are not accurate because they were taken several years ago and since child prostitution is illegal many of the numbers remain hidden from western statistics. The U.N. doesn’t post statistics with regard to Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, or Indonesia which are all countries where child prostitution occurs. These estimates that the U.N. has predicted, do present a question of why child prostitution is occurring in the first place.…
References: 2. ^ "Convention on the Rights of the Child". United Nations. 1989-11-20. Retrieved 2010-09-29.…
A right is an entitlement related to the permissible and prohibited action in the ambience of society and social institution. It is deeply attached to the wrongs and duties. Therefore, the concept of right is closely related to the concept of duties. (P.J. Fitzgerald, (1999).…
Child prostitution and civilizations have gone hand in hand all over the world for over 4,000 years. Ancient religious beliefs and social customs provide the earliest accounts of child prostitution's origin, in the form of both scripture and surviving social systems that have been practiced for thousands of years. It is rather difficult to enumerate or identify all the factors conducive to prostitution, because it is often argued that prostitution has its roots deep in the fabric of society. India is no exception. It is important to trace the history of prostitution within the region, as this is essential to see how practices in the past may account not only for the negative and unequal position of women in present day society, but also the reinforcement of toleration for violent assaults and forced prostitution. While economic deficiency is often attributed as a main factor in the continuity and durability of the trade in areas such as Africa and Eastern Europe, India defies this wide-held belief. Over the past few decades, India has made great progress in terms of economic growth. In less than twenty years, India's per capita income has increased by more than 40% ("Despite Growing Wealth...", 2013). However, despite rapid the economic growth in India over the past several decades, child prostitution is still an extremely prevalent industry due to Hindu practices, Christian and Islamic scriptural precedents, historical and tribal customs, and Indian caste expectations.…
The overall socio-economic development strategy of Bangladesh has become a model for many third world countries. Today‟s Children will be acting as the driving force of the development strategy for tomorrow. The very achievement towards developing our children and making them worthy for a modern and independent nation is not satisfactory. After the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent country, the Children Act‟ 1974 was enacted imbued with the spirit of great liberation war which paved the way in formulating National Children Policy‟1994, undertaking many development projects in this regard including the National Action Plan for Children‟ 2005-2010. Bangladesh has become the partner of many international, regional and bilateral declarations with ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and other major child labour related…
I am privileged to speak on topic of “Policy and Legal Aspects of Child Abuse in AJ&K”. Children are considered as one of the most vulnerable group of society. A child needs adequate protection from all sorts of abuses including physical, psychological and social abuses and without legal cover such protection would not yield result.…