Human Trafficking for Sexual Purposes
Are Human Trafficking Laws Helping or Hurting?
Thesis Statement – Human trafficking for sexual purposes is an ever growing, global, inhumane plague, but the laws meant to abolish it really are hurting the victims more than they are helping them. Introduction – Definition of Human Trafficking and statistics.
Main Support Idea #1 – The negative effects of legalizing prostitution.
Main Support Idea #2 – The Trafficking in Persons Report and its down falls.
Main Support Idea #3 – The effects of Raids on the Brothels and other locations.
Conclusion
Human trafficking is a horrendous crime that is eating away at the lives, dignity and freedom of our women and young children and lately, also our men, at a very rapid rate. It is reaping in millions of profit annually for its profiteers. “Anywhere between 700,000 to four million people worldwide are estimated to have fallen victim to Human Trafficking in recent years” (Everts n.p.). As a matter of fact our Florida is one of the top 3 destinations in the United States for trafficked victims as a result of our economy, amount of immigrants present and the industrial sectors among other beneficial factors obvious to the traffickers according to a report from the Florida State University’s center for the advancement of human rights in 2003 (10). It is estimated that the amount of victims today exceeds those of the Atlantic Slave Trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth century by Human Rights Groups. Future victims are promised better jobs, marriage and a better life just to be lured across the borders; others are snatched up and plunged into the violent, vicious deep sea of sex slavery which devours their moral and intellectual attributes as human beings, sometimes forever. They are held captive and suffer injuries, extortion, rape and some are even murdered during this ordeal. Human trafficking for sexual purposes is an ever growing, global, inhumane plague, but the laws meant to abolish it really are hurting the victims
Thesis Statement – Human trafficking for sexual purposes is an ever growing, global, inhumane plague, but the laws meant to abolish it really are hurting the victims more than they are helping them. Introduction – Definition of Human Trafficking and statistics.
Main Support Idea #1 – The negative effects of legalizing prostitution.
Main Support Idea #2 – The Trafficking in Persons Report and its down falls.
Main Support Idea #3 – The effects of Raids on the Brothels and other locations.
Conclusion
Human trafficking is a horrendous crime that is eating away at the lives, dignity and freedom of our women and young children and lately, also our men, at a very rapid rate. It is reaping in millions of profit annually for its profiteers. “Anywhere between 700,000 to four million people worldwide are estimated to have fallen victim to Human Trafficking in recent years” (Everts n.p.). As a matter of fact our Florida is one of the top 3 destinations in the United States for trafficked victims as a result of our economy, amount of immigrants present and the industrial sectors among other beneficial factors obvious to the traffickers according to a report from the Florida State University’s center for the advancement of human rights in 2003 (10). It is estimated that the amount of victims today exceeds those of the Atlantic Slave Trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth century by Human Rights Groups. Future victims are promised better jobs, marriage and a better life just to be lured across the borders; others are snatched up and plunged into the violent, vicious deep sea of sex slavery which devours their moral and intellectual attributes as human beings, sometimes forever. They are held captive and suffer injuries, extortion, rape and some are even murdered during this ordeal. Human trafficking for sexual purposes is an ever growing, global, inhumane plague, but the laws meant to abolish it really are hurting the victims
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