Modern Day Slavery

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It also means that there are 5.4 victims of modern slavery for every 1,000 people in the world and 1 in 4 victims of modern slavery are young children's. Even is today’s modern world there are still a large number of individuals working in different forms of forced labor.First his paper will analyzes the economic structure of the market for human trafficking and how the trend of human trafficking changed. Later this literature will mention the factors which leads women and young children to involve in such activities.and how the life of victims affected because of human trafficking. Finally paper will will talk about the government policies and regulation which are implemented to stop such crime and to give equal opportunities and respect for women to avoid gender discrimination.
Historical and Modern-Day Slavery
Human trafficking is known as the modern-day form of slavery, the exercise of selling and enslaving humans is not new . For example in Ancient Egypt people were enslaved to build pyramids. In Portugal during 15 century, humans were bought and sold from Africa and Europe. As per history prior to the Civil war , In United States it was common to sell slaves at public auction by southern plantation owners. The business of selling slaves was a well-developed business. As slaves were considered as cheap and dependable source of …show more content…

In human trafficking majority of its part is covered by prostitution that is the exploitation of humans for business. Slavery is illegal across the globe but prostitution in certain areas are not illegal and globally. The sex industry is also like any other industry like increase in demand, leads to increase in supply (especially womens).There is huge demand for sex worldwide, and though there are individuals which became the part of industry by their choice but there are millions that are forced to such work (Clifton,pg