Informative Speech On Human Trafficking

So I do feel that we need to do something about the human trafficking that is going on. With there being so much of it going unseen I know how hard that is but we see the girls walking the streets and we see the phone numbers on card and things like that, With the research that I have done it is found that a lot of those are teens a lot of those girls are under the age of 18 and are being hurt. There are a very high number of girls and boys who have ran away from home and they found someone who wants to help them. I know that this is very hard once things like Stockholm syndrome, or capture bonding, “This is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending and identifying with the captor.” ("Stockholm syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia," n.d.) This happens because they form those feeling and start to thing that things are their fault when that person
is un happy, so most of the time these girls will at that point do what ever their Pimp or boss says. According to The U.S Department of state there are something’s that we can do they list around 20 different ways to fight human trafficking.
I will post a few.
1. Learn the red flags that may indicate human trafficking and ask follow up questions so that you can help identify a potential trafficking victim. Human trafficking awareness training is available for individuals, businesses, first responders, law enforcement, and federal employees.
2. Incorporate human trafficking information into your professional associations’ conferences, trainings, manuals, and other materials as relevant
3. Write a letter to the editor of your local paper about human trafficking in your community
4. Attorneys: Look for signs of human trafficking among your clients. Offer pro-bono services to trafficking victims or anti-trafficking organizations. Learn about and offer to human trafficking victims the legal benefits for which they are eligible. Assist anti-trafficking NGOs with capacity building and legal
work.
(The U.S Department of state, n.d.)

With all of these different programs it should help but there are still a lot of people who are not able to live their lives. This problem is spreading and more and more girls and boys are being taken advantage of every day. Technology is a great invention but not always when it is coming from helping the criminals. They cannot use the Internet and that makes for way more clients and more desecrate ways of communication. The Justin system is falling behind with this. For some of these men and woman they are getting very light jail time because the lack of proof is playing a big part. The burses are gone or the girls were sent away to stay while things die down so we are trying to get them on other charges and to be honest those do not have the long term sentencing that a human trafficking charge would. The number one charge that is also related to human trafficking is Drug trafficking or drug possession. We as a nation no as a world can stop this but we have to have the information first. This is a subject that gets over looked because we don’t see it happening But the sad thing is that it does happen every day and the number one way we can prevent this is by advertising it, letting the pimps and the captives know that we are trying to find them and that we will not stand for this any longer. Information is the best defense that we have on our side because once people start to see that this is happening they will speak out. They will want to rally around the police and the people searching so that they feel they are helping.