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Deontological Ethics And Sex Trafficking

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Introduction In the newly globalized world, many ethical issues are changing from the frameworks within which they existed in before the injustices of this modern epidemic of global capitalism. This paper will be discussing many aspects of human trafficking, specifically focusing on sex work and sexual trafficking. The many ethical questions that arise from the issues of sex work and sex trafficking will be thoroughly analyzed through several key ethical frameworks like deontological ethics, virtue ethics and utilitarianism ethics. This paper will also provide actual cases where sex workers consensually participate in sex trafficking in order to better their lives, despite the fact that it may be quite dangerous. It is also discussed how …show more content…

In the global capitalist world of today, this statement is no different. Human trafficking is an age old concept defined by the United Nations as “the acquisition of people by improper means such as force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them” (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2009). Every single country certainly has some form of human trafficking within it with those who have a sense of power exploiting those who are desperate, but it is a difficult crime to persecute people for or to find adequate ways to assist the victims of trafficking or the smuggled migrants. There have been several resolutions and steps taking by the United Nations in order to begin the journey towards solving the global issue of human trafficking. The United Nations Protocol Against Trafficking in Person was passed in 2003, signed by 155 member states and it calls on governments to improve collection and sharing of information about human trafficking in order to not be fighting this problem in the dark (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2009). It is often difficult for the countries who ratified this Protocol to actually implement methods of persecution because they lack either the necessary legal instruments or the nation state lacks the needed political …show more content…

The idea of trafficking primarily suggests moving across continents but in complete actually the domestic and intra-regional trafficking rates are also very high. In addition, as of Nov. 2008, 63% of the 155 countries who were apart of the global report had actually implemented laws against human trafficking in its major form (another 16% passed anti-trafficking laws that covered certain elements) which is a big step up from when this report began in 2003 when only 1/3 of the countries had actual legislation against human trafficking. This study also actually collected several shocking pieces of data about the victims of human trafficking. The majority (71%) of human trafficking victims are women, and one third (28%) are children. Males are often trafficked into exploitative labour such as mining, slavery, or porters, while most women and girls are trafficked for marriage and or sexual slavery. (UN News Centre, 2016) In fact, it was found that 79% of the victims of human trafficking, in the 52 countries that specified what form of exploitation happened to the victims, experienced some variety of sex trafficking. (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime,

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