Human trafficking has been a serious problem over the world. There are four categories of human trafficking: Sex trafficking, forced labor, bounded labor, and child soldiers. Sex trafficking is the most widespread and severe. Women and younger girls are forced to be prostitutes. They cannot escape, and they have to suffer unbearable pain every moment. Nowadays there is a growing concern over whether decriminalize prostitution reduce sex trafficking.
According to Cari Mitchell, legalize prostitution can decrease sex trafficking. She believes it can ensure sex workers’ safety and also they can break away from torture because they can find other jobs easily without a criminal report. However, the problems are policing and crime act. …show more content…
At first, I will be a conscientious customer. I will check out Department of Labor’s List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor, then I will not purchase those products from those companies that use slaves and forced labors. Second, I will donate funds or needed staffs to an anti-trafficking organization in my area. Third, I will not remain silence. I will tell my friends the facts of human trafficking and to spread public awareness. Forth, I will try to be a volunteer to do victim outreach or offer your services to a local anti-trafficking agency. Also, the English Though Service class can make us do something to victims. Finally, I can research information about human trafficking and to do a research paper on the topic that concerning human …show more content…
They include Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, and Romania, which are all Eastern European countries. The transition to a market economy has led to both opportunities and a loss of security for citizens of these countries. The economic hardship has made their women and children vulnerable to trafficking. Women do not have equal job, educational opportunities and political rights. Children are easy to trafficking because of their impoverished families and their families may sell them. Also, the rules of law have been weak in those Eastern European countries and governments corruption cause traffickers can spread their illegal business at low risk, and criminals often can escape prosecution and convictions. In addition, human trafficking is a profitable illegal activity in the world and the Western demand for Eastern European prostitutes have support sex-slave industry. One of factors of increasing human trafficking has been militarization and war in the Balkans. After the war Yugoslavia, a large number of foreign males in Balkans have given rise to the trafficking of numerous Eastern European girls for commercial sex exploitation. Maybe there are some other factors, but those above-mentioned points are the main