...Introduction It is estimated that more than 27 million men, women, and children around the world are in what has become known as Human Trafficking. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the introduction of the Emancipation Proclamation and along with the United States of America; the rest of the world is united in ending slavery around the world. Even with newer laws to address the modern slave trade, such as the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) and the U.N. Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (Palermo Protocol) slavery in the world continues to be a serious crisis. Sex slavery is one of the horrible outcomes of Trafficking in Persons. Central/South Asia is one of the worse areas for the sex slave trade. India is what is seen as a cross-road for the sex slave trade affecting millions of children. In 1996, the First World Congress passed the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) in Stockholm, Sweden. The world recognized that sexual violations of children exist in all nations regardless of cultural differences or geographic location. The CSEC was adopted by 122 governments and five years later in the Second World Congress in Yokohama, Japan, the number of countries rose to 159. India has had some of the most severe problems with sex slavery, especially among children. In 2005, Indian’s National Rights Commission (NHRC) estimated that 44,000 children go missing in the country every year...
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...Until recently, in the US, the thought of Human Sex Trafficking never occurred to Americans. Human sex trafficking is an illegal activity. This involves selling, buying and trading of people. They are transported away from their families and communities and are forced to work against their own will. People are trafficked both between countries and within the borders of a state. It is also known as modern slavery and a form of sexual exploitation; where women’s, girls and children’s are forced to enter in the world of prostitution. People do this to make money, for some people it’s a business a way to make profit. 27 million people all over the world are currently being forced into human sex trafficking, 1 million children will be exploited by the commercial sex trade each year (Buzzle). The purpose of this paper is to inform the audience about the crime of human sex trafficking. What is the background on human sex trafficking? What is the current situation in India with human sex trafficking? What will happen in the future with the issues of human sex trafficking? Human Trafficking is defined in the Trafficking Protocol as "the recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring or receipt of a person by such means as threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud or deception for the purpose of exploitation." Human sex trafficking is the modern equivalent of slavery. It’s an incredibly profitably crime, bringing quick, high profits...
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...Human Trafficking Human Trafficking: The Five “W”s 1 Human Trafficking 2 The Five “W”s of Human Trafficking Executive Summary What is Human Trafficking? Page 5 Where does it happen? Page 6 Who are the victims? Page 9 Why does it happen? Page 12 What are we doing to stop it? Page 13 Conclusion Page 16 Works Cited Page 3 Page 18 Human Trafficking 3 Executive Summary: This paper was written to help educate people on the horrors of this extremely profitable organized crime. Human trafficking is defined as the recruitment, transporting, or harboring of people for the purposes of slavery, forced labor, or sexual exploitation. There are two different types of human trafficking: labor trafficking and sex trafficking. Sex trafficking is the sale of women and children for prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation. Sex trafficking is a lot more common than labor trafficking; labor trafficking...
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...According to article “Human Trafficking will not end until it ends in India” by Fox News explains how Indian women are the poorest of the poor and are excluded from society. They have limited education or access to justice and have been taught for generations that they are worthless, less than human. They have no idea they have rights. Dalit women are pressured to India’s human trafficking because they have no political voice, no protection by law enforcement, and no access to the courts. Human trafficking is the third largest profitable industry in the world. India is the epicenter of human sex trafficking. The latest figures estimate that over 1.2 million children are trafficked worldwide every year and child prostitution contains the highest trafficked children. Trafficking is one of the hardest crimes to track and investigate due to the lack of data. India is the most dangerous country for women today, according to the UN. “By bringing an end to human trafficking in the number one source and destination for human trafficking victims in the world, we can end trafficking around the globe.” (Fox News) The challenge still remains of how to end this worldwide issue. History/Background According to article “Cross-Border Trafficking in Nepal and India-Violating Women’s Rights” human trafficking is both a human rights violation and the fastest growing criminal industry in the world. Human trafficking is the third largest organized crime after drugs and arms trafficking. (US Department...
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...United Nations defines human trafficking as the Act that involves the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receiving a person through the use of force, coercion or other means, to exploit their ', and crimes against humanity. Human trafficking consists of three elements; Law (what should be done, such as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, or receipt of persons), which means (how this is done, as is the threat or use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or vulnerability or provide payment or benefits to control victims) and purpose (why it is done, for example, to the exploitation of the prostitution of others exploiting that include, sexual exploitation, forced labour, slavery or similar practices...
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...Women and Children trafficking in Bangladesh: A Legal Study Md. Saddam Hossen[1] ABSTRACT Sexual abuse, exploitation, trafficking are nightmares for femininity especially for disadvantage groups and trafficking is the most heinous of all. Government as well as Non- Government Organizations is working for Prevention, Protection, Rehabilitation and Reintegration of trafficked victims and population at risk. Though among these, Prevention is the most effective to reduce or eliminate human trafficking it is least utilized. Perhaps lack of mechanisms by which to measure success or outcome of prevention activities is the cause of this. Still some NGOs are working on it. In fact NGOs have been the pioneers in bringing this invisible crime into the public domain by their continuous efforts. Government is now also concerned of it because of international pressure and concern. Government initiatives give emphasis on prosecution but it is a globally chained crime where prosecute real offender is tough. Rather prevention is the possible measure to stop trafficking. It is the only pre-trafficking measure which may help a young girl or child not to be victim of trafficking. NGOs are the only actor at grass root level working for prevention so it is necessary to see- actually what they are doing and has any change took place. . The study explains the definition of trafficking, causes and consequences of trafficking. It also suggest some recommendations for the preventio9n of this problem. ...
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...Human trafficking is the third largest organized crime after drugs and the arms trade across the globe. Trafficking in human beings, especially in women, and children has become a matter of serious national and international concern. These women, mostly from poorer countries like Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, usually come to India on three to six months of work or tourist visas. Although India has a number of laws and provisions prohibiting activities associated with trafficking, trafficking continues to fester year after year and be seemingly unabated. According to the definition of the United Nations – “trafficking is any activity leading to recruitment,...
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...Worldwide Must Place More Focus On Human Trafficking A collection of current articles regarding human trafficking has been collected throughout this semester. The news reports vary greatly in geographic location but the underlying message that these events share is unified and clear. Governments worldwide must create specialized agencies, victim relief units, and allocate more funds towards the understanding and prevention of this growing crime. Due to the complexity of human trafficking, non-traditional law enforcement must be used. As stated in several of the articles gathered, a growing need for information sharing between organizations has become necessary. With enhanced human trafficking policies and implementation; accurate crime statistics can be gathered, victims can be identified, perpetrators can be prosecuted, and organized crime patterns can be seen. This paper will be broken down into several components that cover this multi-faceted, illegal industry. First, a description and definition of human trafficking will be given. The current prevention methods will follow, including rough statistics gathered around the world. Next, I will outline the difficulties that law enforcement encounter with human trafficking. The strategies for improvement will make up the bulk of the paper. Human trafficking has been deemed the 21st century slave trade. Inadequate laws against trafficking and police negligence have allowed for this human rights violation to develop into...
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...Girl Trafficking in Nepal Tens of thousands of Nepalese girls and women are trafficked each year. They end up in brothels as sex workers or in homes and factories as slaves. They are trafficked within Nepal and to countries such as India, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and the UAE. Nepal is traditionally a patriarchal society where women in general and girl children in particular are treated as second class citizens. While this is changing in the cities and larger towns where people are more educated, discrimination still exists in rural areas, especially among low caste and marginalized indigenous communities. Girls are simply not valued as much as their brothers. This discrimination manifests itself in many ways, but one of the most insidious is the failure to understand the significance educating a girl child. One of the reasons girls are valued less is because, traditionally, they have not been educated. And if they have little value, why educate them. This self perpetuating spiral of ignorance and worthlessness results in girls being seen as expendable commodities, at least in relation to boys, and known risks are put aside if there is a chance that she can find work and send back much needed cash to her family. Girls and their families are tricked with promises of good paying jobs in glamorous cities, lured by proposals of marriage from handsome strangers and sometimes just taken and sold by middlemen known as dalals. Nepal is a source country for many migrant workers...
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...Effects on the Victims Victims of human trafficking go through tremendous amounts of emotional and physical stress. Often, they are not given any food and are locked up in rooms to be hidden from the rest of the world. They deal with an excessive amount of abuse whether it be from the trafficker beating them, strangling them, stabbing them, and burning them. The “employers” are constantly threatening them and their family in order to make them cooperate properly. Of course, this would lead to a lot of traumatized people (Sankar Sen and P.M. Nair, 2002). These people would have to face and battle suicidal thoughts, along with depression. Many of the survivors blame themselves and try to downsize their past situation in order to try to cope with what had just happened. They are left with the feeling of being outcasts and isolated because after getting away from their horrible world, they go back into one where many have not faced what they have, and they might not be able to understand it....
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...Human Trafficking -What impact does human trafficking have on the world? Human trafficking is a multi-dimensional threat. It deprives people of their human rights and freedoms, it is a global health risk, and it fuels the growth of organized crime. It is kind of modern day slavery and is the third largest criminal industry in the world after arms and drug dealing. It involves an act of recruiting, transporting, transferring, harboring or receiving a person through a use of force, coercion or other means, for the purpose of exploiting them. The common denominator of trafficking scenarios is the use of force, fraud, or coercion to control people; that control is tied to inducing someone into commercial sex acts, or labour or services. Men around the world profit in pleasure and in price from the exploitation of women and children. Poverty and global disparities in the rule of law are conditions in which human trafficking, like HIV/AIDS and other killers of the poor, thrives. Trafficking of children often involves exploitation of the parents' extreme poverty. The latter may sell children to traffickers in order to pay off debts or gain income or they may be deceived concerning the prospects of training and a better life for their children. Nearly 80 percent of trafficked persons are women and girls and up to 50 percent are children. It is estimated that upwards of 17,000 people are trafficked into the United States each year; an additional 200,000 American children are considered...
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...Bangladesh is a source and transit country for men, women, and children subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically forced labor and forced prostitution. A significant share of Bangladesh’s trafficking victims are men recruited for work overseas with fraudulent employment offers who are subsequently exploited under conditions of forced labor or debt bondage. Children – both boys and girls – are trafficked within Bangladesh for commercial sexual exploitation, bonded labor, and forced labor. Some children are sold into bondage by their parents, while others are induced into labor or commercial sexual exploitation through fraud and physical coercion. Women and children from Bangladesh are also trafficked to India for commercial sexual exploitation.Human Trafficking In Bangladesh Bangladeshi men and women migrate willingly to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Iraq, Lebanon, Malaysia, Liberia, and other countries for work, often under legal and contractual terms. Most Bangladeshis who seek overseas employment through legal channels rely on the 724 recruiting agencies belonging to the Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA). These agencies are legally permitted to charge workers up to $1,235 and place workers in low-skilled jobs typically paying between $100 and $150 per month. According to NGOs, however, many workers are charged upwards of $6,000 for these services. A recent Amnesty International report on Malaysia...
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...Human Trafficking: The World is a Scary Place Dating back to the early 1400s, human trafficking has been a continuous world issue. It all began with the Portuguese buying and selling Africans to use them as slaves. Ever since then, human trafficking has escalated to something more terrifying and is becoming a larger issue. Between sex and labor trafficking, human trafficking is a huge issue worldwide. To work beyond what the nation has already accomplished, we can further educate ourselves to help protect those in danger of what human trafficking entails. Why is it a Big Deal? Continuing through the 1600s, African slave trade began to gain countries, including: Spain, North America, Holland, France, Sweden, and Denmark. Beginning in 1904...
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...Child Trafficking Herman noble University of Alabama at Birmingham May 7 2012 Human trafficking has become an international problem that has developed into a world social issue. There are many forms of human trafficking such as child trafficking, abduction, and laundering. This is a major problem because human trafficking is illegal and a violation of human rights. Nevertheless, this repulsive act is continuously committed. Poverty, greed, corruption, supply and demand, is the components of human trafficking. Some have argued and defined human trafficking as the removing of any orphan from their culture and placing them in an unrelated different environment. Nevertheless, it is the poor non-educated families from developing or sending nations that suffer the most. Kenya and other nations have been affected by human trafficking in one way or another, while the United State avoids legal responsibility and accountability in such matters. Kenya’s issue is child abduction. This type of human trafficking is increasing around the world. Children are abducted and forced to fight in armies. The majority of the world’s conflict is fought by children. Healy (2008) states: Children are recruited primarily because they are easily to control and indoctrinate…Some are abducted or conscribed by force;…Girls are abducted into armies, some to serve as soldiers, others for sex, and often both(p.96). Bondo district, Kenya is characterized by high levels of poverty, and a HIV prevalence...
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...follow the acceptable standards of business in operations. Exploitation in general terms can be defined as taking unfair advantage of someone else’s weakness. A person, who is being exploited, accepts voluntarily the deal offered because it makes them “better off”. There are different forms of exploitation such as forced labour, child prostitution, human trafficking for sex work and the abuse of migrant workers. Exploitation at the workplace is largely considered as an unethical behaviour on the part of the employer. Exploiting...
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