Human Trafficking

Marlon Brionez
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Human Traffiking

Human trafficking primarily involves exploitation which comes in many forms,

including: forcing victims into prostitution, subjecting victims to slavery or involuntary servitude

and compelling victims to commit sex acts for the purpose of pornography. Trafficking humans

is now a fast growing business of organized crime. Men, women, and children are being are

being trafficked by force and are being sold across international borders. According to the U.S.

State Department, 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders every

year, of which 80% are females and half are children. Human trafficking is a problem affecting

many communities, its illegal and this problem should raise concerns worldwide. Many health

issues are also in correlation to human trafficking to be concerned about such as transmitted

disease that causes death. Human trafficking is a serious inhumane crime that should be stopped

because victims are that is destroying many families, Its illegal, and this problem should be

stopped. This problem also bring many health issues to be concerned about such as transmitted

disease that causes death. Human trafficking is a serious inhumane crime that should be

stopped because victims are being neglected into unwanted sexual activity, victims are

being forced into unpaid labor, and They are denied by society.

Trafficking victim are particularly susceptible to sexual assault and exploitation.

Traffickers commonly use sexual violence as a tool to assert power and control over women,

children, and men. Human trafficking and sexual assault are both traumatic crimes. Sexual

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assault can be verbal, visual, physical, or anything that forces a person to engage in unwanted

sexual contact. Examples of this include: inappropriate touching, rape, attempted rape, child

molestation and abuse (women's health.gov).

Sexual harassment, which may include requests for sexual favors and obscene and suggestive

language, is not only unlawful in its own right; it also can lead to sexual assault. Both traffickers

and perpetrators of sexual assault largely prey upon marginalized populations, such as

immigrants, minorities, economically disadvantaged individuals, LGBTQ individuals, and

persons with disabilities. Sexual abuse is unwanted sexual activity, with perpetrators using force,

making threats or taking advantage of victims not able to give consent. Most victims and

perpetrators know each other. Immediate reactions to sexual abuse include shock, fear or

disbelief. Long-term symptoms include anxiety, fear or post-traumatic stress disorder. While

efforts to treat sex offenders remain unpromising, psychological interventions for survivors

especially group therapy appears effective.It is highly likely that first responders and service

providers working with either sexual assault or trafficking survivors will come across victims of

both crimes.

Survivors of both crimes have wide-ranging needs that can best be addressed through the joint

efforts of law enforcement agencies, legal aid organizations, cultural or community-based

organizations, victim advocates and caseworkers, interpreters, health care providers, and social

welfare associations. Agencies that encounter and work with trafficked persons and sexual

assault survivors face additional challenges that can be best addressed through a multipronged,

victim-centered identification and service model. Such an approach stresses that empowering the

survivor, providing support to aid in rebuilding their self-determination, and respecting their

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choices are the most effective means of assisting survivors. Some of the consequences that can

happen are bruises or other physical trauma, withdrawn behavior, depression, or fear Shows

signs of drug addiction Presents with STI or unwanted pregnancy.1 in 5 percentage of American

women that have been the victims of of rape or attempted rape in their lifetimes 12% percentage

of high school girls that have been forced to have sexual intercourse when they did not want to

there is many ways into forcing a girl to have sexual relationships some of the ways are

Rohypnol and Gamma Hydroxybutyrate a drug that has substantially increased that are "date

rape drugs" and that are slipped into unknowing victims' drinks and prevents memory of any

events including rape the manufacturer now has changed the formula to cause the drinks to

change colors that drug makes them forget about everything that happened to them. But most of

the people just threats their victims by threats, bribes, manipulation, pressure, tricks, or

violence. It may be physical or non- physical and includes rape, attempted rape, incest and child

molestation,

Most instances of forced labor occur as not so good employers take advantage of gaps in law

enforcement to exploit vulnerable workers. These workers are made more vulnerable to forced

labor practices because of unemployment, poverty, crime, discrimination, corruption, political

conflict, and cultural acceptance of the practice. Immigrants are particularly vulnerable, but

individuals are also often forced into labor in their own countries.One form of force or coercion

is the use of a bond, or debt, to keep a person. This is referred to in law and policy as "bonded

labor" or "debt bondage." It is criminalized under U.S. law and included as a form of exploitation

related to trafficking in the United Nations protocol on trafficking in persons. According to the

US Department Of State Many workers around the world fall victim to debt bondage when they

assume an initial debt as part of the terms of employment, or inherent debt in more traditional

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systems of bonded laborJuly 25, 2007. In South Asia, this phenomenon exists in huge numbers

as traditional bonded labor in which people are enslaved from generation to generation. People

become trapped in involuntary servitude when they believe an attempted escape from their

conditions would result in serious physical harm or the use of legal coercion, such as the threat of

deportation. Victims are often economic migrants and low-skilled laborers who are trafficked

from less developed communities to more prosperous and developed places. Many victims

experience physical and verbal abuse, breach of an employment contract, and may perceive

themselves to be in captivityand too often they are. Domestic workers may be trapped in

servitude through the use of force or coercion, such as physical (including sexual) or emotional

abuse. Children are particularly vulnerable to domestic servitude which occurs in private homes,

and is often unregulated by public authorities. For example, there is great demand in some

wealthier countries of Asia and the Persian Gulf for domestic servants who sometimes fall victim

to conditions of involuntary servitude. Most international organizations and national laws

indicate that children may legally engage in light work.By contrast, the worst forms of child

labor are being targeted by nations across the globe. The sale and trafficking of children and their

entrapment in bonded and forced labor are particularly hazardous types of child labor. Forced

conscription into armed conflict is another brutal practice affecting children, as armed militias

recruit some children by kidnapping, threat, and promise of survival in war-ravaged areas.

Victims of trafficking for forced labor lose their freedom, becoming modern-day slaves. They

experience permanent physical and psychological harm, isolation from families and

communities, reduced opportunities for personal development, and restricted movement.Victims

are often wary of law enforcement and psychologically dependent on their traffickers. Child

victims are denied educational access, which reinforces the cycle of poverty and illiteracy. What

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Is the United States Doing to Combat Human Trafficking for Forced Labor? The 2000

Trafficking Victims Protection Act and 2003 Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act

mandate efforts to combat trafficking in persons.The Department of State issues an annual

Trafficking in Persons Report that government actions to combat trafficking, including

protecting the victims of labor servitude and punishing their exploiters. The 2005 Trafficking in

Persons Report includes an increased number of countries on Tier 3 for labor violations.

They are denied by society Human trafficking denies the sacred worth of Gods children and

destroys the fabric of our communities. Victims endure psychological trauma, physical injury,

economic hardship that can create lifelong scars and barriers for full participation in ones

community.survivors from human trafficking are afraid to show their faces to family and

friends even if they are settled in a community they still face challenges like sense of terror,

helplessness and lack of confidence of appearing in public. Trafficked survivors are always

rejected by their families or communities for having being forced to work as prostitute and for

being sexually abused.Those people life change because they can't find safe housing , education

or legal employment because there memories keep haunting them and that they are scared to be

taken again Victims of sex trafficking often share risk

factors, including: child sex abuse, parental neglect, parental drug use, emotional and/or physical
abuse by a family member, and poverty.

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People just it's another job The worlds oldest profession is just that, a profession like any

other. Authorities have tried to ban the sex trade for millennia, but prostitution thrives in the

Internet age. Its time to face up to the reality that sex work is not going to go away. If we

treat it as just another service industry, sex workers be they male or female, homo can
come

out of the shadows and start to shed the stigma of criminality. What consenting adults do

behind closed doors, whether they pay for it or not, is no concern of the state.Today, some

human trafficking is voluntary, in that people in country sign up to be smuggled into

country

using a contract servitude agreement like Europeans once used to get to colonial America.

This form of voluntary human trafficking, though still exploitative and illegal, allows
people to move from overpopulated countries to other countries that have more resources to
sustain them, thus balancing the burden of human population across political boundaries.
Because

human trafficking allows some companies to produce goods and services at a lower cost,
the other companies that compete legally will have to innovate and improve their

industrial/business practices, to stay competitive. By forcing innovation and improvement,

then, human trafficking encourages the development of better and more efficient
technology.

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In conclusion human trafficking should not exist in modern day. It is a unpleasant and

wrongful crime, it is the punishment of mankind, and a abuse of human rights

.Trafficking is one of the most profitable industries. Counter-trafficking strategies and

programs have been made to stop the expansion. Traffickers are usually not persecuted and

some countries where they work, there are no laws criminalizing their abuse on humans

.I'm against Human trafficking because it ruins peolpes lifes by sexaul acts, and forced

slavery because those people get so many diseases that have no cure to them. For example

STD from sexual acts and if they do not do what they are told to do they get abuse . Many

say human trafficking is the modern day slave trade, yet so little is done in an effort to stop

this problem. 70% of human trafficking victims consist of young girls that are taken from

their countries and families and they are imported to other countries where they can be sold

into prostitution.Stop Human Trafficking for once and for all.!

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