Human Trafficking: Forced To Become A Slave
Human Trafficking and kidnapping Human Trafficking is the act of transporting, shipping, and selling people into slavery to be exploited in some way, while making money for their new owner. Over 2 million males and females are being trafficked right now. All people that are trafficked are, in one way or another, forced to become a slave. Some people are deceived, or tricked into thinking that this new job will offer a better life for them. Every country is involved, either through unknowingly supplying the victims, transporting them, or where they are going. The most at risk groups of people are those who are socially disadvantaged they don’t have a family or friends to support them – or those who are economically disadvantaged they don’t
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have a good paying job, and they’re looking for one to sustain them. There are several different ways that people are unwillingly exploited, including organ harvesting, being recruited for child soldiers, and sex trafficking. Organ harvesting is a quickly growing field, because there are more and more patients around the world that need transplants to live. Criminals have taken this growing problem and making it worse by taking advantage of potential organ donors. These donors are sometimes killed for their organs, and potential money, or they are tricked into thinking that they can save someone’s life while getting something good out of it. These criminals target poor, sick and desperate people looking for money. In Africa alone, 200,000 kids are working as child soldiers. All of these children have been kidnapped by rebel groups who raid their villages. If they show any form of weakness after they are recruited, they are killed because they will not have the emotional capability to fight. They are forced to kill others in war, or be killed. Most of these kids are under 12, and have already had to kill a family member or watched their family be killed. Sex trafficking is the most common of all the types of human trafficking, and it involves mostly women and children. Usually these workers receive little or no pay for the work they do. People may think that this could never happen to them, but really it happens all over the globe. Sex trafficking is not only slavery, but a huge worldwide business. Criminals mostly target less developed areas, where people don’t realize what’s really going on.
On the other hand, kidnapping happens when a person, without lawful authority physically moves another person without that other person 's consent, with the intent to use the kidnap in connection with some other evil intention. This impose that trafficking and kidnapping are intertwined because a victim of kidnapping may end up doing things that they does not want. For instance, a person may be kidnapped for transporting them to another country where she will work as a prostitute against her will. However, it is worth noting that kidnappings occur for different reasons which may vary from obtaining a reward. Human trafficking is the fastest increasing criminal industry in today’s world, coming in second after illegal drug-trade.
This type of slaver has been traced back to the ancient Mesopotamian and Mediterranean civilization and has continued to grow. What is human trafficking? Commonly referred to as "modern-day slavery" is the illegal trade of human beings for forced labor or for exploitation. Exploitation referring to the using others for prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery, or the removal of organs. Woman and young children living in poverty are the ones who usually fall in the trap of the traffickers. Due to poverty many woman are not educated and are no employed leaving them with no choice but to sell their bodies to provide for their families. An approximate of 17,500 foreigners are trafficked each year in the United States alone, the number of United States citizens trafficked within the United States are even higher. Human trafficking is a near guaranteed death due HIV and AIDS woman are infected with. Governments around the world are just beginning to address this problem and have realized just how strong this type of slavery has …show more content…
become. Poverty is the leading cause in human trafficking. It has been documented that poverty leads to a lack of education leading to no employment and that leading to sex trafficking By fighting poverty many believe that there will be an end to sex trafficking too. Woman living in poverty countries will not be looking into sex driven businesses for employment. "Trafficking is inextricably linked to poverty. Wherever privation and economic hardship prevail, there will be those destitute and desperate enough to enter into the fraudulent employment schemes that are the most common intake systems in the world of trafficking
Statistics show that human trafficking is a very lucrative business and is growing at a very fast rate.
Polaris Project notes “Because human trafficking is considered to be one of the fastest growing criminal industries, the U.S. government and academic researchers are currently working on an up to date estimate of the total number of trafficked persons in the United States annually. In fact the trade is only second to drug trafficking in terms of the illegal trade with the best returns. It is of paramount importance to note that a difference exists between human trafficking and human smuggling because in the latter, a person is willing to move to another country and they pays a smuggler who facilitates ones
movement.
Clare Short, a member of British Parliament, said, “You will never prevent people living in bonded labor from getting caught up in sex trafficking while they are so desperate that they have no other choice but to sell themselves.” The victims don’t have a choice because they are so desperate for money to help them live, and they will do anything to get it. Most of the time, they are tricked into thinking they will have a better life. Either through a good paying job or possibly a marriage, and an uneducated victim will take this opportunity immediately. Even though human trafficking is such a huge crime, most traffickers that get away with it and only a handful don’t. Theresa, a teenage girl from America, has an amazing story about how she survived two years of her life in the hands of a trafficker. When her family moved to Michigan, she became extremely shy around the new people she met. Only 15 at the time, she was led to believe that a popular boy, who started noticing her, was trustworthy and safe. He invited her into his house before dropping her off at her own house after school, and he had his cousins take pictures of her while he raped her. The very next day, he showed those images to her and threatened her, saying that she had to earn them back by becoming his slave or risk her family’s reputation. So every night, he picked her up and sold her to dozens of men at a time. This went on for two years before she was set free because her family moved again after her father got a job transition to another state. Theresa was extremely lucky. The boy could have easily taken her away from her family, never to see them again. The Dream Project Foundation is an organization that is fighting against human trafficking, focusing in on South East Asia. They target problems that make potential victims more vulnerable to this crime so that it can be weakened. The Dream Project Foundation is always looking for help. If you love to travel, you can contact them, and there could be an opportunity for you to volunteer at Dream House, where you can teach kids and entertain them, help them in their office, do some building work, or offer one of your many skills to benefit them. If you want to help, but you find that you are weighed down with stuff at home, there is still work to be done in the virtual volunteer program. There are events to be planned, there is marketing to be done, and tons of other jobs that someone can do to help this organization. With everyone working towards the same goal, who says human trafficking can’t be diminished?
One of the key factors that are used by traffickers is the fact that victims do not have to worry about their travel plans. Brokers arrange travels from one country to the other where victims are promised opportunities that are unattainable in their native countries. However, upon reaching their destinations the victims discover that they have been promised heaven only to end up in hell. In addition, the victims discover that escaping is not only difficult but dangerous too because the consequences of escaping are severe. This implies that the person is forced to do what the traffickers want because the victims are helpless.
In other instances, children are promised better lives by traffickers, which they cannot get in their countries of origin. Once these children are told about the good things that they will be able to achieve once they reach their destinations, they become blinded and opt to leave their countries. Upon arriving at the promised countries where they will get better lives for themselves as well as their families, they are forced to work in deplorable conditions. This affects their education, mental conditions among other things because of the things that children will do at tender ages. Children are forced to recruit as child soldiers and engage in armed conflicts. Hart notes, “Some victims are forced to become soldiers and wage war. Young boys, in particular, are trained to handle guns and are forced to kill those they are told are the enemy. This affects their growth a lot because children do not have the capacity to choose between right and wrong.
Many countries have realized the importance of suppressing kidnapping with the aim of trafficking and as a result, they have enacted laws that suppress the act. Cambodia, which is among the leaders in kidnapping cases, has strict laws that define and prohibit these immoral acts. It is important to note that the law does not discriminate against any person irrespective of their countries of origin.
Cases of kidnapping for the purposes of trafficking have been on the rise because of industry owners want to maximize their earnings by forcing victims to work for a very little pay. Napa Setthakorn of Thailand 's social development and welfare agency notes, "Male victims are trafficked to fishing boats and to seafood processing factories because this is where men are wanted for work The process involves traffickers befriending jobseekers and then inviting them for a drink. During this time, the drinks are spiced with drugs and the victims pass out only to wake up in different locations. Traffickers have resorted to kidnapping men because they have realized it is hard to convince a man to leave his country of origin to work on a different country without showing absolute truth for the existence of the said job. Moreover, in Thailand, many seafood-processing plants have come up and they require the services of men whereas the owners are not ready to pay what the workers demand.
It is hard to control human trafficking as a single country because the crime involves many countries at the same time. This is shown by the fact “As transit area, Thailand is used by human trafficking groups to traffic Cambodians, Burmese, Chinese, Laotian, and Vietnamese to Malaysia for sexual exploitation. Thailand is also a destination area for trafficked migrants from Cambodia, Burma, China and Vietnam. This shows that different nationalities are involved in the crime and they must coordinate in order to ensure that they get their victims to the desired destinations. This in the end implies that a single country is unable to control the crime because it does not end where it starts.
Human trafficking is a traumatizing experience to the victims and their families because of the troubles that the two parties have to go through. In most cases, upon reaching their destinations, all identification documents and passports for the victims are confiscated. This implies that the person is unable to leave that country at his or her will. In addition, a victim is denied the chance to communicate freely with his or her family members back at home, which leaves the other family members very confused.
Moreover, the traffickers ensure that it is very hard to trace the victims and as a result, the government agencies are unable to help the victims as well as their families in tracing their lost relative. This leaves the families traumatized because the government is unable to explain to the family what is happening to their loved ones.
Although the act of human trafficking and kidnapping is unlawful and immoral acts, in some instances the victims should bear some of the blame. This is because it takes a few incentives to convince some people that they will receive everything they have been looking for in their lives if they leave their countries of origin and move to another country that they barely know. The victim will then follow the directions of a person that he or she barely knows and leave their country of birth as they goes out to search for the Promised Land. The said victim does not even take time to authenticate the details of the promised goodies on the country they intend to explore.
Although the cases of human trafficking are always documented and agencies as well as governments are warning people against them, very few people ensure that they have the needed data about organizations that organize for working outside ones country. This shows that people are becoming ignorant and they do not care about what happens to them. Governments are always ready to prove the authenticity of organizations that offer job opportunities abroad but very few migrants make use of this service. It is of paramount importance to acknowledge the importance of working hard under the circumstances that one is in instead of hoping to get a better life somewhere else, which may end up being untrue. Most of the victims of human trafficking are lazy individuals who believe that there is a better life out there, somewhere. However, every person needs to realize that goods go those who work for them and ensure that that they work hard to better their lives.
All in all, human trafficking is a serious crime that not many people are informed about. Young woman and children are forced into this sickening business every day. Woman and children living in poverty do not know the meaning of human trafficking due to the lack of education. The highest percentage with people carrying the HIV/AIDS virus is for woman on this planet, many believing part of the percentage is because of human trafficking. Not many woman and children know the risks they are taking when they have no choice but to sell their bodies. Government all over the world should be providing information on human trafficking because no nation is immune from this crime
WORK CITED
Diamond, J. L. (2005). "Kidnapping: A Modern Definition." American Journal of Criminal Law,
Germain, L. (28 Oct. 2009). Kidnapping and human trafficking – the seamy side of globalization. International News Services. Retrieved 13 Jan. 2012 fromhttp://www.internationalnewsservices.com/articles/1-latest-news/12449-kidnapping-and-human-trafficking-the-seamy-side-of-globalisation
Hart, J. (2009). Human Trafficking. London: The Rosen Publishing Group.
Humantrafficking.org. (2011). Law on Suppression of the Kidnapping and Trafficking of Human Persons and Exploitation of Human Persons. Retrieved 13 Jan. 2012 fromhttp://www.humantrafficking.org/government_law/15
Kara, S. (2009). Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery. New York: Columbia University Press.
Lawrence, A. (2011). Horrors of abuse and the rebellion. Retrieved 13 Jan. 2012 fromhttp://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/kidnapping
Nieva, M. A. O. (16 May 2009). Human traffickers resort to kidnapping. Retrieved 13 Jan. 2012 from http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/pinoy-migration/05/16/09/human-traffickers-resort-kidnapping
Polaris Project. (2012). For a World without Slavery. Human Trafficking. Retrieved 13 Jan. 2012 from http://www.polarisproject.org/human-trafficking/overview
UNODC - Signatories to the CTOC Trafficking Protocol". (2011). Treaties.un.org. Retrieved 13 Jan. 2012 from http://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&;mtdsg_no=XVIII-12-a&chapter=18&lang=en
Wilson, J. M. & Dalton, E. (01 May 2011). Human Trafficking in the Heartland Variation in Law Enforcement Awareness and Response. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. 16(2): 146-157.
have a good paying job, and they’re looking for one to sustain them. There are several different ways that people are unwillingly exploited, including organ harvesting, being recruited for child soldiers, and sex trafficking. Organ harvesting is a quickly growing field, because there are more and more patients around the world that need transplants to live. Criminals have taken this growing problem and making it worse by taking advantage of potential organ donors. These donors are sometimes killed for their organs, and potential money, or they are tricked into thinking that they can save someone’s life while getting something good out of it. These criminals target poor, sick and desperate people looking for money. In Africa alone, 200,000 kids are working as child soldiers. All of these children have been kidnapped by rebel groups who raid their villages. If they show any form of weakness after they are recruited, they are killed because they will not have the emotional capability to fight. They are forced to kill others in war, or be killed. Most of these kids are under 12, and have already had to kill a family member or watched their family be killed. Sex trafficking is the most common of all the types of human trafficking, and it involves mostly women and children. Usually these workers receive little or no pay for the work they do. People may think that this could never happen to them, but really it happens all over the globe. Sex trafficking is not only slavery, but a huge worldwide business. Criminals mostly target less developed areas, where people don’t realize what’s really going on.
On the other hand, kidnapping happens when a person, without lawful authority physically moves another person without that other person 's consent, with the intent to use the kidnap in connection with some other evil intention. This impose that trafficking and kidnapping are intertwined because a victim of kidnapping may end up doing things that they does not want. For instance, a person may be kidnapped for transporting them to another country where she will work as a prostitute against her will. However, it is worth noting that kidnappings occur for different reasons which may vary from obtaining a reward. Human trafficking is the fastest increasing criminal industry in today’s world, coming in second after illegal drug-trade.
This type of slaver has been traced back to the ancient Mesopotamian and Mediterranean civilization and has continued to grow. What is human trafficking? Commonly referred to as "modern-day slavery" is the illegal trade of human beings for forced labor or for exploitation. Exploitation referring to the using others for prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery, or the removal of organs. Woman and young children living in poverty are the ones who usually fall in the trap of the traffickers. Due to poverty many woman are not educated and are no employed leaving them with no choice but to sell their bodies to provide for their families. An approximate of 17,500 foreigners are trafficked each year in the United States alone, the number of United States citizens trafficked within the United States are even higher. Human trafficking is a near guaranteed death due HIV and AIDS woman are infected with. Governments around the world are just beginning to address this problem and have realized just how strong this type of slavery has …show more content…
become. Poverty is the leading cause in human trafficking. It has been documented that poverty leads to a lack of education leading to no employment and that leading to sex trafficking By fighting poverty many believe that there will be an end to sex trafficking too. Woman living in poverty countries will not be looking into sex driven businesses for employment. "Trafficking is inextricably linked to poverty. Wherever privation and economic hardship prevail, there will be those destitute and desperate enough to enter into the fraudulent employment schemes that are the most common intake systems in the world of trafficking
Statistics show that human trafficking is a very lucrative business and is growing at a very fast rate.
Polaris Project notes “Because human trafficking is considered to be one of the fastest growing criminal industries, the U.S. government and academic researchers are currently working on an up to date estimate of the total number of trafficked persons in the United States annually. In fact the trade is only second to drug trafficking in terms of the illegal trade with the best returns. It is of paramount importance to note that a difference exists between human trafficking and human smuggling because in the latter, a person is willing to move to another country and they pays a smuggler who facilitates ones
movement.
Clare Short, a member of British Parliament, said, “You will never prevent people living in bonded labor from getting caught up in sex trafficking while they are so desperate that they have no other choice but to sell themselves.” The victims don’t have a choice because they are so desperate for money to help them live, and they will do anything to get it. Most of the time, they are tricked into thinking they will have a better life. Either through a good paying job or possibly a marriage, and an uneducated victim will take this opportunity immediately. Even though human trafficking is such a huge crime, most traffickers that get away with it and only a handful don’t. Theresa, a teenage girl from America, has an amazing story about how she survived two years of her life in the hands of a trafficker. When her family moved to Michigan, she became extremely shy around the new people she met. Only 15 at the time, she was led to believe that a popular boy, who started noticing her, was trustworthy and safe. He invited her into his house before dropping her off at her own house after school, and he had his cousins take pictures of her while he raped her. The very next day, he showed those images to her and threatened her, saying that she had to earn them back by becoming his slave or risk her family’s reputation. So every night, he picked her up and sold her to dozens of men at a time. This went on for two years before she was set free because her family moved again after her father got a job transition to another state. Theresa was extremely lucky. The boy could have easily taken her away from her family, never to see them again. The Dream Project Foundation is an organization that is fighting against human trafficking, focusing in on South East Asia. They target problems that make potential victims more vulnerable to this crime so that it can be weakened. The Dream Project Foundation is always looking for help. If you love to travel, you can contact them, and there could be an opportunity for you to volunteer at Dream House, where you can teach kids and entertain them, help them in their office, do some building work, or offer one of your many skills to benefit them. If you want to help, but you find that you are weighed down with stuff at home, there is still work to be done in the virtual volunteer program. There are events to be planned, there is marketing to be done, and tons of other jobs that someone can do to help this organization. With everyone working towards the same goal, who says human trafficking can’t be diminished?
One of the key factors that are used by traffickers is the fact that victims do not have to worry about their travel plans. Brokers arrange travels from one country to the other where victims are promised opportunities that are unattainable in their native countries. However, upon reaching their destinations the victims discover that they have been promised heaven only to end up in hell. In addition, the victims discover that escaping is not only difficult but dangerous too because the consequences of escaping are severe. This implies that the person is forced to do what the traffickers want because the victims are helpless.
In other instances, children are promised better lives by traffickers, which they cannot get in their countries of origin. Once these children are told about the good things that they will be able to achieve once they reach their destinations, they become blinded and opt to leave their countries. Upon arriving at the promised countries where they will get better lives for themselves as well as their families, they are forced to work in deplorable conditions. This affects their education, mental conditions among other things because of the things that children will do at tender ages. Children are forced to recruit as child soldiers and engage in armed conflicts. Hart notes, “Some victims are forced to become soldiers and wage war. Young boys, in particular, are trained to handle guns and are forced to kill those they are told are the enemy. This affects their growth a lot because children do not have the capacity to choose between right and wrong.
Many countries have realized the importance of suppressing kidnapping with the aim of trafficking and as a result, they have enacted laws that suppress the act. Cambodia, which is among the leaders in kidnapping cases, has strict laws that define and prohibit these immoral acts. It is important to note that the law does not discriminate against any person irrespective of their countries of origin.
Cases of kidnapping for the purposes of trafficking have been on the rise because of industry owners want to maximize their earnings by forcing victims to work for a very little pay. Napa Setthakorn of Thailand 's social development and welfare agency notes, "Male victims are trafficked to fishing boats and to seafood processing factories because this is where men are wanted for work The process involves traffickers befriending jobseekers and then inviting them for a drink. During this time, the drinks are spiced with drugs and the victims pass out only to wake up in different locations. Traffickers have resorted to kidnapping men because they have realized it is hard to convince a man to leave his country of origin to work on a different country without showing absolute truth for the existence of the said job. Moreover, in Thailand, many seafood-processing plants have come up and they require the services of men whereas the owners are not ready to pay what the workers demand.
It is hard to control human trafficking as a single country because the crime involves many countries at the same time. This is shown by the fact “As transit area, Thailand is used by human trafficking groups to traffic Cambodians, Burmese, Chinese, Laotian, and Vietnamese to Malaysia for sexual exploitation. Thailand is also a destination area for trafficked migrants from Cambodia, Burma, China and Vietnam. This shows that different nationalities are involved in the crime and they must coordinate in order to ensure that they get their victims to the desired destinations. This in the end implies that a single country is unable to control the crime because it does not end where it starts.
Human trafficking is a traumatizing experience to the victims and their families because of the troubles that the two parties have to go through. In most cases, upon reaching their destinations, all identification documents and passports for the victims are confiscated. This implies that the person is unable to leave that country at his or her will. In addition, a victim is denied the chance to communicate freely with his or her family members back at home, which leaves the other family members very confused.
Moreover, the traffickers ensure that it is very hard to trace the victims and as a result, the government agencies are unable to help the victims as well as their families in tracing their lost relative. This leaves the families traumatized because the government is unable to explain to the family what is happening to their loved ones.
Although the act of human trafficking and kidnapping is unlawful and immoral acts, in some instances the victims should bear some of the blame. This is because it takes a few incentives to convince some people that they will receive everything they have been looking for in their lives if they leave their countries of origin and move to another country that they barely know. The victim will then follow the directions of a person that he or she barely knows and leave their country of birth as they goes out to search for the Promised Land. The said victim does not even take time to authenticate the details of the promised goodies on the country they intend to explore.
Although the cases of human trafficking are always documented and agencies as well as governments are warning people against them, very few people ensure that they have the needed data about organizations that organize for working outside ones country. This shows that people are becoming ignorant and they do not care about what happens to them. Governments are always ready to prove the authenticity of organizations that offer job opportunities abroad but very few migrants make use of this service. It is of paramount importance to acknowledge the importance of working hard under the circumstances that one is in instead of hoping to get a better life somewhere else, which may end up being untrue. Most of the victims of human trafficking are lazy individuals who believe that there is a better life out there, somewhere. However, every person needs to realize that goods go those who work for them and ensure that that they work hard to better their lives.
All in all, human trafficking is a serious crime that not many people are informed about. Young woman and children are forced into this sickening business every day. Woman and children living in poverty do not know the meaning of human trafficking due to the lack of education. The highest percentage with people carrying the HIV/AIDS virus is for woman on this planet, many believing part of the percentage is because of human trafficking. Not many woman and children know the risks they are taking when they have no choice but to sell their bodies. Government all over the world should be providing information on human trafficking because no nation is immune from this crime
WORK CITED
Diamond, J. L. (2005). "Kidnapping: A Modern Definition." American Journal of Criminal Law,
Germain, L. (28 Oct. 2009). Kidnapping and human trafficking – the seamy side of globalization. International News Services. Retrieved 13 Jan. 2012 fromhttp://www.internationalnewsservices.com/articles/1-latest-news/12449-kidnapping-and-human-trafficking-the-seamy-side-of-globalisation
Hart, J. (2009). Human Trafficking. London: The Rosen Publishing Group.
Humantrafficking.org. (2011). Law on Suppression of the Kidnapping and Trafficking of Human Persons and Exploitation of Human Persons. Retrieved 13 Jan. 2012 fromhttp://www.humantrafficking.org/government_law/15
Kara, S. (2009). Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery. New York: Columbia University Press.
Lawrence, A. (2011). Horrors of abuse and the rebellion. Retrieved 13 Jan. 2012 fromhttp://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/kidnapping
Nieva, M. A. O. (16 May 2009). Human traffickers resort to kidnapping. Retrieved 13 Jan. 2012 from http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/pinoy-migration/05/16/09/human-traffickers-resort-kidnapping
Polaris Project. (2012). For a World without Slavery. Human Trafficking. Retrieved 13 Jan. 2012 from http://www.polarisproject.org/human-trafficking/overview
UNODC - Signatories to the CTOC Trafficking Protocol". (2011). Treaties.un.org. Retrieved 13 Jan. 2012 from http://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&;mtdsg_no=XVIII-12-a&chapter=18&lang=en
Wilson, J. M. & Dalton, E. (01 May 2011). Human Trafficking in the Heartland Variation in Law Enforcement Awareness and Response. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. 16(2): 146-157.