Is Human Trafficking Ethical?
The illegal trade and exploitation of human beings for forced labor, prostitution and reproductive favors is termed human trafficking. Human trafficking is a transnational phenomenon and is second only to the international drug trade in relation to organized crime. Because human trafficking is second to the international drug trade, we continue to have this immoral issue and here’s why; the impact of human trafficking is chilling; and although, the brunt of it is faced by the victims, the nation suffers. Safety and security, the privileges of living in a free country are compromised.
The main motive of a woman or a girl would accept an offer from a trafficker is better financial opportunities for herself or her
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With an estimated 400 million children between 0 and 18 years, the country’s per capita income remaining low and 26 percent of the population living below the poverty line. India has become a source, destination and transit country for men, woman, and children trafficked for forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. India has become a transit hub for human trafficking with estimated millions, victim to human trafficking.
Trafficking in India is often disguised as migration, commercial sex or disgustingly even marriage. It is estimated that ninety percent of the India’s sex trafficking is internal. Women and girls are trafficked internally for commercial sex. Children are subject to involuntary servitude as factory workers, domestic servants, beggars, agricultural workers and many times they are also sexually abused by their owners. No crime can be worse than this.
Also, some prostitutes become victims of human trafficking. Some women know they will be working as prostitutes, but they don’t have clear view of the circumstances and the conditions of the work in their country of destination. Many women are forced into the sex trade after answering false advertisements, while others are simply kidnapped. Thousands of children from Asia, Africa, and South America are sold into the global sex trade every year. They are kidnapped or orphaned, and sometimes they are sold by their own