Human Trafficking Tsin Yen Clark Summary

No matter where in the world you are, there is going to be some type of human trafficking going on in the dark. We need to bring this problem to light so we can help the victims reclaim their lives. Since the early ages, human trafficking has existed. Gaye Clark, the author of “Is the problem of human trafficking exaggerated?” thinks human trafficking has become over-exaggerated as it has been brought to the world’s attention. She thinks that the more attention there is, the more false information there will be and the less likely that others will believe or trust the efforts to stop human trafficking. On the other hand, Tsin Yen Koh, the author of “Human Trafficking: Overview.” thinks there could be more attention towards human trafficking.
Although both Clark and Koh make valid arguments, human trafficking is not taken as seriously in today’s world. Koh makes more valid points and uses more evidence and information to show how human trafficking is lacking enough attention. Throughout both articles, Clark uses ethos, the appeal to ethics, and Koh uses logos, the appeal to logic, to appeal to their audience. Clark states, “Many well-intentioned advocate often unknowingly pass along faulty data in an effort to raise awareness. But when those numbers prove false, it can have a negative effect on their overall effort” (para. 6). This shows that many well-known people could be giving false facts about a situation, in this case of human trafficking, but when the numbers or information is false, it proves to have a negative impact on the reliability of any facts towards that subject. Adversely, as Clark used
Both Clark and Koh use evidence to support their claims throughout their articles. Often throughout the article, Clark quotes the U.S. Representative Bob Goodlatte and Representative Ann Wagner about their figures on human trafficking and how they got them. Goodlatte gave a figure of child sex trafficking in the United States to be a $9.8 billion business, but Clark retaliates and gives more information about where those numbers came from and the real numbers. Clark says, “When confronted about the $9.8 billion number, Goodlatte said he got it from Shared Hope, an anti-sex trafficking organization[…] But the ILO’s (International Labor Organization Report) report didn’t offer a country-by-country breakdown for trafficking, let alone a specific figure for the United States. Instead, it offered a collective $13 billion estimate for ‘forced commercial sexual exploitation’ from 36 industrialized countries, including the United States” (para. 2) where she also gives more information about how “the ILO’s estimate of 200,000 people forced into prostitution worldwide could be off by as much as 25 percent” (para. 2). Gaye Clark also rebuttals Ann Wagner’s accusations that domestic human trafficking is a $9.5 billion business by citing the 2006 State Department Trafficking in Person report, which says, “‘According to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, human trafficking generates an estimated $9.5 billion