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United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is an intergovernmental body that addresses situations of human rights violations. The UNHRC strengthens the protection and promotion of human rights worldwide. It was established to be able to replace the previous CHR. The previous CHR was criticised because it allowed countries that had poor human rights to be members of the committee. The General Assembly established the UNHRC. It adopted a resolution on March 15, 2006. UNHRC meetings are held in Geneva, and they hold only three regular sessions a year, for a total of 10 weeks. Throughout the year, meetings are held in the months of March, for a total of four weeks, in June, for a total of three weeks, and in September, for a total of three weeks. …show more content…

These types of crimes damage every country in the whole world. This problem is a challenge for all countries, even for developed countries. What countries do to protect victims of trafficking and smuggled migrants is that they target the criminals who exploit people. The victims of human trafficking suffer unimaginable hardships wanting a better life.
Smuggling of migrants is the procurement for the purpose of another benefit of illegal access of a person into a nation of which that person is not a resident.
Article 3, a paragraph of a Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, defines human trafficking as the transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of humans. It has a purpose of the threat with the use of force abduction, fraud, deception, or other forms of coercion to abuse of the rights or the power of a person or its position of vulnerability to have control over another person for the means of exploitation. Exploitation includes the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, slavery, practices similar to slavery, forced labour, servitude, and in some cases even the removal of …show more content…

Every country in the world is affected by human trafficking whether it is for the destination to the country, transit in the country, or the country of origin. Every year, thousands of women, men, and children are victims of human trafficking in their native country and internationally.
Trafficking in persons has two primary factors driving it: low risks and high profits. Human trafficking is a market-driven criminal industry. Human trafficking is based on the principle of supply and demand. Traffickers generate billions of dollars by victimizing thousands of people worldwide.
Human trafficking is an abominable and brutal international crime. The US State Department takes notes in the latest report on human trafficking it is sadly growing because of the actual global financial issues. The global demand for labor decreasing, workers are taking greater dangers than before to survive. The result is: “a recipe for greater forced labor of migrant workers and commercial sexual exploitation of women in

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Human development standards of a country give economic and social development of its society as whole, which may influence by healthy internal and external affairs. Currently, some states encounter challenges of domestic unrest in the form of civil wars or domestic conflicts, religious issues as experienced by Israel and Palestine, and ethnic cleansing like genocide problems. Among them human smuggling, human trafficking, irregular movement of persons, migrant workers, boat people and asylum seekers are also crucial issues in the international relations arena. Some people are confused about smuggling and trafficking.

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Human smuggling is a type of illegal immigration in which an agent is paid to help a person cross the border clandestinely. Human trafficking is the exploitation of unwillingly or unwitting people through force, coercion, threat, or deception. (Schmalleger; Pg. 380) The difference between the two, is that human smuggling the party/individual is aware and willing to cross the border, and in human trafficking the party/individual is unaware or unwilling to cross the border. It pretty sad to think that this issue is easily over looked every day, but I think the best way to help stop the issue is make people more aware of the issue.

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In the United States, human trafficking has taken on different forms than what is normally thought of as human trafficking. It can range from a migrant laborer wanting to get a job to be able to support his family to survive who is then forced into manipulative work to a child running away to get away from abuse that is happening at home and the person that is helping the child get away from the abusive situation at home turns out to be exploiting him or her to make a profit (Farrell et al, 2014). According the International Labour Organization has estimated that 20.9 million people are involved in human trafficking in the whole world, with 1.5 million victims are in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. In 2011, there were 3,969 convictions worldwide, and there were only 151 convictions in the United States.

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Majority of victims globally are girls and women, most of them are trafficked for the end goal of sexual exploitation. Traffickers mainly target females because they are excessively influenced by discrimination and poverty, elements that obstruct their approach to educational, employment opportunities and other resources. Maybe the most grounded factor is an urgent economic circumstance, which affects the accessibility of satisfactory employment in numerous nations for females more seriously than males. There is a suspicion that males are the perpetrators and females are the victims.

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