Human Trafficking Victims

Why are victims still victims?

If you were in an abusive relationship with your partner and had the chance to run away would you do it? If you were in a job that took your freedom away and had the opportunity to regain that freedom would you take it back? Human trafficking is basically the offspring of both of the scenarios given. Victims of human trafficking do tend to have a relationship with their capturers and they treat their forced labor work or prostitution as their job. The slave next door brings into the floor the topic of modern slavery. Along with it, it also brings into question on why trafficked slaves simply don’t just run away? In a modern world like today and especially in first world countries where lots of services are

There are organizations such as the Polaris Project, and Prajwala are both organizations that fight off human trafficking. The first organization battles for more law enforcement against human trafficking while the second rescues women from brothels and then provides them with education, mental health care, and job programs. The Urban light organization helps free young men from prostitution while the GoodWeave organization stops child labor from rug industries and other retail businesses. Most of these organizations help victims escape the world of slavery and provides them with a better future than the one they’ll live in if they continue being slaves. So why is it that victims continue being

Well there’s a simple answer and a complex one. The simple answer is that it’s not that easy to run away. The complex answer is this. Human trafficking is very complex in a psychological level. The victims are in tough situations where it’s not made easy for them to run away. Many if not most are controlled by the traffickers manipulative ways. Other victims are paralyzed by fear, whether it’s from a cruel and painful beating to the fear of losing their loved ones. Many victims are held back by their own imagination believing that they have to pay back a never ending debt. In the end it doesn’t matter how many services a country might be able to provide to a victim. It doesn’t matter how spread out and powerful the law is. It doesn’t matter if the police is strong. The determining factor that concludes everything is if the victim is willing to risk everything to present himself to the public. Is he/she ready to run away and show the world what hides just beneath our everyday lives? The answer is no. They aren’t ready. The risk are too great in their