Informative Essay On Human Trafficking

Robeel Khan

Mrs.Frantzen

English 12 CP

3/6/23

Human Trafficking It is a simple day, you have a date planned later tonight. This date could be anywhere, wherever you want it to be. Imagine what it would be like to go to Paris or a dinner date to a fancy restaurant. All in all there is excitement in the air with no red flags that show any danger in the night ahead. There they are, the spouse that planned the date. Everything goes as planned and in a blink of an eye it all disappears. You wake up in a new room, a room that you have never entered. You're asking yourself what happened, why it happened, who did it? The answer is that there is no clear answer. (About Human Trafficking) Human trafficking has affected over twenty seven million people

With countries and multiple different organizations joining arms to try and fight against this global issue. Human Trafficking, the name itself is well known and it is no secret to the general public.

“Human trafficking involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act.” (What is Human Trafficking?, Homeland Security, n.d.). Human trafficking is sometimes referred to as modern day slavery. None of these people who have been kidnapped are able to see their families, and trying to get outside help will only get them hurt more. It can happen to anyone at any given point without warning. With human trafficking happening spontaneously, and it being an international problem, it doesn't mean it can't be prevented. “In twenty-seventeen, the Department of of State Labor and the U.S. Agency for International Development managed a total of one hundred and twenty international counter-human-trafficking projects across more than 40 different countries. (What is the U.S. Government doing to combat human trafficking?). With this being said the U.S has teamed up with multiple countries, some of those countries being, Canada, New

Not expecting to have any type of legal consequence. Although the second part of not having legal consequences is false. It means that in higher populated areas, such as cities there is a lot more of a risk of there being traffickers. “Traffickers might use the following methods to lure victims into trafficking situations, violence, manipulation, false promises of well paying jobs, and romantic relationships.” (Human Trafficking, John Hartwell Moore.) Violence and manipulation are self explanatory in the sense that one would already know how that would work. Tying back to the people that are targeted in economic hardships, false promises of well paying jobs would play a big role for that. People who cannot afford things such as rent or basic necessities could think that they would want to use this to their advantage without thinking about the consequences that it could cause. Traffickers would use one's vulnerability to take advantage of their victims. Take the homeless for example, they would promise the homeless a home and basic necessities. Most likely they would take up on the offer again, without absorbing the fact that there could be consequences. With that, they now become a