Human Trafficking Research Paper

Human Trafficking Tony Kirwan, founder of Destiny Rescue, an organization that helps human trafficking victims said, “We have only two choices. Do nothing, or do something.” Millions of people are trafficked yearly, and a large amount of these victims were impoverished, and looking for work to provide for their families, or they were sold by their families to earn some money. Human trafficking, mostly child trafficking, is a billion dollar industry, with yearly earnings being estimated at 150 billion per year, from every form of trafficking. Human trafficking is not, and shouldn’t be limited to just sexual exploitation. Human trafficking is a system that runs off the abuse of power and inequality, such as gender, economic, or social. But …show more content…
The act is the recruitment of the person/s, the mean is the coercion or force used to manipulate them into the purpose, which is how they’ll be exploited. With children or minors, there only needs to be an act and mean to be considered child trafficking. Human trafficking is not migrant smuggling. Migrant smuggling is consensual, because the persons involved do want to be smuggled across country or state lines. Although it’s degrading, it stops once they reach their destination. With human trafficking, it is the constant nonconsensual degradation, transportation, and exploitation of the victim. Human trafficking has been nicknamed the modern day slave trade, and for good reason, because human trafficking has been almost everywhere. The United Nations clearly defines it as “the abuse of power or of a …show more content…
What are some of the industry’s victims are forced into? Obviously, prostitution or sexual exploitation is a very large one, especially in Thailand, which has 10% of its GDP being tourism, and a majority of tourists are “sex tourists”. Sexual exploitation includes forced marriage/child brides, or even virginity selling. 1 million young girls (s debt. Debt bondage, as the previous example portrayed, is a common practice to force victims to work. Because it’s easier to traffick immigrants, and since Thailand has 3- 4 million immigrants at any given time and because Myanmar has an estimated 4 million, and large majority of these immigrants are undocumented and have came to these countries for work seeing that their home countries were not economically stable, it’s no surprise that they have a large amount of victims. Children also make up 36% of victims, or 1.29 million child victims. For every three trafficked children, one is male and two are female. Because women (and children) hold lower social status than men, it’s easier to traffick them and shame them if they do get sexually exploited. Likewise, because of social stigma and prejudice surrounding some groups of people, such as the

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