Causes Of Human Trafficking

The purpose of term paper is to comprehensively present the issue of human trafficking. Human trafficking is a serious crime against the human rights of victims who have suffered considerable harm due to the severity of the crime. The practice of human trafficking is not new while the past global cooperative efforts to extirpate the problem of human trafficking are not good enough. The term paper is intended to call people 's attention to the concern of human rights, increase the understanding of the human trafficking problem including the cause and the effects of the problem and introduce how to address the problem to make a better society. Trafficking in persons refers to the acts or coercion to gain the power of control over another person

Social, economic, cultural, political and other factors influence different trafficking patterns such as the social or cultural practices of countries that reduce the worth of women and girls make them vulnerable to trafficking. In the context of globalization, human trafficking is more severe because of the boundless transportation, the broader of global mobility, the migration and the wider of the gap between rich and poor. All of these facilitate traffickers to recruit and move victims for exploitation. Globalization changes demand patterns of society such as sex tourism or organ trading, forms the economic conditions that increase the demand for cheap labor, illegal workers or slave labor and increases the economic disparities between developed and developing countries so people who suffer from poverty, oppression, lack of human rights, lack of social or economic opportunity, dangers from conflict and others are pressured to seek the ways to have a better quality of life. They want to migrate to another developed country for searching the better opportunity in their life such as a good job, better income or educational opportunity. The movements of people become an essential manner of global transformations and a common factor for trafficking in general patterns. This is a great opportunity for traffickers to derive benefit from victims. Traffickers recruit potential victims who want to migrate by offering them a better life or opportunity. If a potential victim falls into a trap, the victim is transported or smuggled for exploitation to another place or country, which may not be a place intend to migrate. Unfortunately, some victims are faced with a terrible fate that they did not choose. For example, some parents sell their children to gain the money but sometimes they also hope that their children will get opportunities to have a better life. Victims who have