Human Trafficking In The Washington Post By John Tirman

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Human Trafficking Around the World In many countries around the world women and children can be tricked into being sexual slaves and without their will and be part of human trafficking in their own country or to be shipped overseas to another country. In this article the Washington post by John Tirman, this author describes how women in Iraq are vulnerable of this crime such as kidnapping and sexual assault. It is said women who are tricked to do this kind of labor they don’t understand how human trafficking actually works. A global trafficking appears around the world it has become the largest crime that forces labor trafficking, which has become three times greater than sex commerce. Human trafficking not only affected women but as …show more content…

“As of 2005 this global phenomenon reaped an annual worldwide affected more than 12.3 million persons” (Tirman). This scale of these crimes has affected half of women’s and half of children’s. This includes the victims have gone through to do this labor by force such as selling their human organs. When these victims are often recruited focus to be sexual exploited in places such as Thailand, Dubai and the United States. These places are the most common perception of human trafficking and a lot of victims are brought into America each year from all over the world. They are brought to these countries to be household labor agriculture, food and care services. Those industries do not get paid due to traffickers fees payment is irrelevant. It is said, “Sex trafficking to the United States is estimated to bring 50,000 women and girls to our shores each year, mainly for prostitution” (Tirman). There is a case the author describe about a women who trafficked to Florida to work, told her victims as maids or waitress for labor work but it was not true. Once there arrival in the United States traffickers raped the women and girls keep their documents to force them to prostitute. If the victims tried to escape where the traffickers took them there were several physical punishments as well as threats of deportation. Another country women are assault is in …show more content…

It is more efficient to send victims that way due not required any identification numbers when they are abroad. Human trafficking is not all about sexual exploitation includes sex-related offenses. “Last year’s state department report on trafficking 85% of prosecutions for this crime worldwide and more than 89% percent of convictions were for sex-related offenses” (Lagon). It is said some of these cases traffickers used this victims for their low income and exploited for labor. “The U.N office on Drugs and Crime find out in the study the abuse of fishers trafficked for the purpose of forced labor on board fishing vessels” (Lagon). These practices were describes as cruel form of exploitation and trafficking children in the fishing industry. By doing this study it can prevent the treatment of workers who had no idea how this traffickers worked using this boats and how they trapped their victims. Fishing boats works not required to carry any satellite transponders which makes it easier for traffickers to passed their victims and evade surveillance. Therefore, human trafficking is worse for officials to catch these traffickers due to the amount of forms of modern slavery that traps laborers on the high seas. Traffickers are not easy to catch by using fishing vessels due is hard for law enforcement to punish them of what they

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