Global Human Trafficking
Global human trafficking is the second largest and fastest-growing organized crime in the world. There are an estimated 21 million people enslaved today, 4.5 million of which are in the sex industry. The profit from trafficking estimating in all forms of exploitation and slavery is a total of $32 billion a year, and profits from sex slavery amount to nearly $10 billion. A significant number of people believe that slavery ended in 1863 but modern slavery still exists in every corner of the globe. Not just in remote areas of Asia and Europe but in your home country. In America, there are 60,000 men, women, and children enslaved at this very moment. In FBI's recent statistics on human trafficking out of the top 13 cities California is the home
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of trafficking 3 being Los Angeles San Diego and San Francisco. Prevention of human trafficking is a daily occurrence; people are trying to fight it everyday. It can affect anybody, it could even be as simples as walking down the road or going on a trip. Human trafficking has increased dramatically in time, it is happening more often. Most of the children trafficked are for commercial sexual exploitation targeting girls the ages of thirteen to fifteen years old. Each one of them is forced into prostitution and them later sold to a pimp. The worst part is that less than one percent of sex trafficking victims are saved. The same factors allow traffickers to flourish, to abuse and exploit kids from our high schools and neighborhoods. Trafficking is a human rights issue that pervades both developed and developing countries worldwide, preventing men, women, and children from ever achieving true equality in the world.
Despite companies and enterprises flourishing through acts of trafficking, human trafficking is best understood as a way to prostitution but labor trafficking is not well known or popular amongst modern day slavery but is as equally unacceptable as sex trafficking because its main programs attempted to create a stable environment for private enterprise by utilizing and harnessing other human beings.
The problem of human trafficking has sparked political attention over the past decade and the focus in the US in terms of advocacy, funding, and law enforcement has been almost entirely on sex trafficking. Globally, The United Nation's International Labor Organization estimates that 21 million people are victims of forced labor, and labor trafficking shows up in supply chains for numerous products, from automobiles to electronics to pet food. The ways trafficking intersects with our own lives are how our nation contains the complications of immigration policy, international migration, global inequalities, and, arguably the American addiction for cheap stuff. There are no clear statistics on the number of labor trafficking victims in the US since the nature of the crime is that workers' situations are hidden and manipulated. Laws on human trafficking vary in strength from country to country or state-to-state within the United States, which results in enforcement to be weak. Citizens are also guilty as to supporting illegal labor. It is as simple as buying a certain brand of clothing. Big brands like Nike have been exposed to have sweatshops throughout the globe. Nearly a third of unauthorized migrant workers in San Diego County have been victims of labor trafficking and more than half have experienced other labor abuses, according to a landmark study released in the nation's capital. A main factor to labor trafficking is the victims' lack of legal status. In California, voters approved increased penalties for convicted sex traffickers. Despite such attention, there
has been little research into the scope of human trafficking in the United States and even less examination of labor trafficking in particular. The prevalence of labor trafficking in this region could be due in part to the proximity to the border and the heightened political discussion of illegal immigration
Estimating the number of domestic and international victims in the millions, mostly females and children are enslaved in the commercial sex industry for little or no money. The terms of human trafficking and sex slavery usually conjure up images of young girls beaten and abused in faraway places, like Eastern Europe, Asia, or Africa. Human sex trafficking and sex slavery happen locally in cities and towns, both large and small, throughout the United States. The United States not only faces an influx of international victims but also has its own homegrown problem of sex trafficking of minors. The number of children engaged in prostitution in the United States is lacking, but reportedly there is an estimated 293,000 American youths that are currently are at risk of becoming victims of commercial sexual exploitation. Majority of these victims are runaway thrown-away youths who live on the streets and become victims of prostitution. These women and young girls are sold to traffickers, locked up in rooms or brothels for weeks or months, drugged, terrorized, and raped repeatedly. These continual abuses make it easier for the traffickers to control their victims. Pimps traffic young women and sometimes men completely against their will by force or threat of force. At times victims who have been abused over an extended period of time begin to feel an attachment to the perpetrator. This psychological issue makes it difficult when it comes to law enforcement the trafficker or pimp still have control over the victim. In 2000, Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), which created the first comprehensive federal law to address trafficking, with a significant focus on the international dimension of the problem. This law helped many victims in court but with local trafficking cases victims are held accountable for their own suffering. Under federal law a child under 18 years who is commercially sexually exploited is considered to be a victim of trafficking but in the same case scenario under local law a child would be charged with child prostitution.
Human Trafficking touches every country and countless industries worldwide, and even though many individuals and organizations are currently working globally to battle this difficult situation, it may take time before it comes to realization just how heinous this issue is. The reality of human trafficking is complicated. There are many root causes and serious challenges. These challenges should not stop any human being from continuing to find solutions to eradicate slavery and empower its survivors as part of the solution. To empower these survivors and surviving, the solution is clear and simple. Many need to realize that almost all survivors have been rescued because of the courage of ordinary people that did not let go of their suspicion. We need to provide them with solutions, to give them a voice and a choice in their lives—and to ultimately end slavery and exploitation. It can come to education, skills training, and social enterprise through partnership to end everyone's suffering.
of trafficking 3 being Los Angeles San Diego and San Francisco. Prevention of human trafficking is a daily occurrence; people are trying to fight it everyday. It can affect anybody, it could even be as simples as walking down the road or going on a trip. Human trafficking has increased dramatically in time, it is happening more often. Most of the children trafficked are for commercial sexual exploitation targeting girls the ages of thirteen to fifteen years old. Each one of them is forced into prostitution and them later sold to a pimp. The worst part is that less than one percent of sex trafficking victims are saved. The same factors allow traffickers to flourish, to abuse and exploit kids from our high schools and neighborhoods. Trafficking is a human rights issue that pervades both developed and developing countries worldwide, preventing men, women, and children from ever achieving true equality in the world.
Despite companies and enterprises flourishing through acts of trafficking, human trafficking is best understood as a way to prostitution but labor trafficking is not well known or popular amongst modern day slavery but is as equally unacceptable as sex trafficking because its main programs attempted to create a stable environment for private enterprise by utilizing and harnessing other human beings.
The problem of human trafficking has sparked political attention over the past decade and the focus in the US in terms of advocacy, funding, and law enforcement has been almost entirely on sex trafficking. Globally, The United Nation's International Labor Organization estimates that 21 million people are victims of forced labor, and labor trafficking shows up in supply chains for numerous products, from automobiles to electronics to pet food. The ways trafficking intersects with our own lives are how our nation contains the complications of immigration policy, international migration, global inequalities, and, arguably the American addiction for cheap stuff. There are no clear statistics on the number of labor trafficking victims in the US since the nature of the crime is that workers' situations are hidden and manipulated. Laws on human trafficking vary in strength from country to country or state-to-state within the United States, which results in enforcement to be weak. Citizens are also guilty as to supporting illegal labor. It is as simple as buying a certain brand of clothing. Big brands like Nike have been exposed to have sweatshops throughout the globe. Nearly a third of unauthorized migrant workers in San Diego County have been victims of labor trafficking and more than half have experienced other labor abuses, according to a landmark study released in the nation's capital. A main factor to labor trafficking is the victims' lack of legal status. In California, voters approved increased penalties for convicted sex traffickers. Despite such attention, there
has been little research into the scope of human trafficking in the United States and even less examination of labor trafficking in particular. The prevalence of labor trafficking in this region could be due in part to the proximity to the border and the heightened political discussion of illegal immigration
Estimating the number of domestic and international victims in the millions, mostly females and children are enslaved in the commercial sex industry for little or no money. The terms of human trafficking and sex slavery usually conjure up images of young girls beaten and abused in faraway places, like Eastern Europe, Asia, or Africa. Human sex trafficking and sex slavery happen locally in cities and towns, both large and small, throughout the United States. The United States not only faces an influx of international victims but also has its own homegrown problem of sex trafficking of minors. The number of children engaged in prostitution in the United States is lacking, but reportedly there is an estimated 293,000 American youths that are currently are at risk of becoming victims of commercial sexual exploitation. Majority of these victims are runaway thrown-away youths who live on the streets and become victims of prostitution. These women and young girls are sold to traffickers, locked up in rooms or brothels for weeks or months, drugged, terrorized, and raped repeatedly. These continual abuses make it easier for the traffickers to control their victims. Pimps traffic young women and sometimes men completely against their will by force or threat of force. At times victims who have been abused over an extended period of time begin to feel an attachment to the perpetrator. This psychological issue makes it difficult when it comes to law enforcement the trafficker or pimp still have control over the victim. In 2000, Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), which created the first comprehensive federal law to address trafficking, with a significant focus on the international dimension of the problem. This law helped many victims in court but with local trafficking cases victims are held accountable for their own suffering. Under federal law a child under 18 years who is commercially sexually exploited is considered to be a victim of trafficking but in the same case scenario under local law a child would be charged with child prostitution.
Human Trafficking touches every country and countless industries worldwide, and even though many individuals and organizations are currently working globally to battle this difficult situation, it may take time before it comes to realization just how heinous this issue is. The reality of human trafficking is complicated. There are many root causes and serious challenges. These challenges should not stop any human being from continuing to find solutions to eradicate slavery and empower its survivors as part of the solution. To empower these survivors and surviving, the solution is clear and simple. Many need to realize that almost all survivors have been rescued because of the courage of ordinary people that did not let go of their suspicion. We need to provide them with solutions, to give them a voice and a choice in their lives—and to ultimately end slavery and exploitation. It can come to education, skills training, and social enterprise through partnership to end everyone's suffering.