Human Trafficking Internal Effects
One human service problem that crosses not just United States borders but international borders is human trafficking. Human trafficking is forced labor, slavery through debt bondage or servitude, forced marriage, or sex. Approximately 12.3 million people are victims of human trafficking around the world each year (Martin, 2014, p. 375). Of that approximation roughly 10,000 are women and children. (Martin, 2014, p.375). While researching this topic I was surprised to learn many children are sold into human trafficking by their own families because of lack of money, or they may be kidnapped from their families. Other external factors for human trafficking can be but are not limited to lack of work, little to no education, families living
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Internal effects come more often after an individual becomes a victim of human trafficking due to the abuse they are subjected to. These effects can be but are not limited to helplessness, hopelessness (Heffernan & Blythe, 2014) as well as a sense of worthlessness, and drug and alcohol abuse. In addition, these victims can suffer from emotional, mental, sexual and physical abuse, they not only fear for their own lives but for the lives of their families at the hands of traffickers. They can also suffer prosecution from authorities as well as fear of deportation for being in a country illegally. The Bible addresses how traffickers should be handled first in (NIV) Exodus 21:16 “Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper’s possession.” The Bible also tells us in (NIV) Deuteronomy 24:7 “If some is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite and treating or selling them as a slave, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from among you.” No human being deserves to be put through what these victims are put through. As human service professionals there are ways to help them these are called the Clients Bill of Rights, some of these rights include but are not limited to: the right to put yourself first, the right to be safe, to love and to be loved, the right to be treated with respect, the right to say “NO”, the right to have control over one’s own life (Heffernan & Blythe,
Internal effects come more often after an individual becomes a victim of human trafficking due to the abuse they are subjected to. These effects can be but are not limited to helplessness, hopelessness (Heffernan & Blythe, 2014) as well as a sense of worthlessness, and drug and alcohol abuse. In addition, these victims can suffer from emotional, mental, sexual and physical abuse, they not only fear for their own lives but for the lives of their families at the hands of traffickers. They can also suffer prosecution from authorities as well as fear of deportation for being in a country illegally. The Bible addresses how traffickers should be handled first in (NIV) Exodus 21:16 “Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper’s possession.” The Bible also tells us in (NIV) Deuteronomy 24:7 “If some is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite and treating or selling them as a slave, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from among you.” No human being deserves to be put through what these victims are put through. As human service professionals there are ways to help them these are called the Clients Bill of Rights, some of these rights include but are not limited to: the right to put yourself first, the right to be safe, to love and to be loved, the right to be treated with respect, the right to say “NO”, the right to have control over one’s own life (Heffernan & Blythe,