Human Trafficking Sparknotes

After 2 days volunteering at IRC and participating in Human Trafficking panel, I feel more positive about lives that there are always hopes in even the darkest corners of the world, as Denene Yates, Executive Director of the Safe House of Hope, said “You are not isolated, you are not alone, you are not invisible; we are still here and we care” (Human Trafficking, March 15, 2016). Besides, I have learnt many things about this international issue. Firstly, helping victims of human trafficking is an extremely difficult process because most of the victims do not see themselves as victims, and the authorities of many countries, including the US, don’t take enough consideration for this issue. Second, human trafficking happens everywhere, and the traffickers can be even victims’ relatives, close friends and parents. In

This novel describes the cruel human trafficking trade in Mexican society through the eyes of Ladydi, a little girl living in a rural community of Guerrero. In her society, it is a tragedy to be born a girl; therefore, to survive, she must pretend to be a boy and be made herself ugly to avoid being stolen by drug traffickers and sold as sex slaves. Women living in her community are voiceless, isolated and are taken, and nobody helps them as “nobody trusted anyone; every person was a drug dealer including police….and even the damn president of the country was a narco” (Clement, 2014, p.13). The victims of sex trafficking, such as her friend Paula, are in hopeless situations whether be treated like “a plastic water bottle” that people “pick up and take a swig of” or be found death in someplace (Clement, 2014, p.63-66). This story terrifies me when imagining that if we continue to ignore the human trafficking; then one day, our society will become another Guerrero and every girl in our family and society will become another Ladydi or