Hotels, Cruise lines, entertainment industry, politics, an all hovering plethora of industries and opportunities within them seek attractive and ambitious employees to greet and welcome passengers. “Vacation the world, meet new people and earn a stable income” – that is a typical advertisement or allure sounding innocuous enough until an indigent and unsuspecting applicant with seemingly nothing to lose is recruited from her home country and arrives at her destination only to be forced into prostitution and entertainment of questionable measures. The International Labor Organization (ILO) guesstimates that there are 2.4 billion people in the world at any given time involved in forced labor and subjected to exploitation as a result of trafficking …show more content…
An increasingly integrated national and global system enables human trafficking to thrive. Just like the slavery of old, modern day trafficking of humans is a lucrative business that has only become more rewarding for traffickers with the passage of time. In fact, the trans-Atlantic slave trade of centuries ago epitomized economic globalization. Just as it was back then, human trafficking, as abhorrent as it is, remains a matter of supply and demand. To corroborate this stark and unfortunate economic reality, the ILO estimates that annual global profits generated from trafficking amount to around U.S. $32 billion (ILO …show more content…
In developing states where agrarian lifestyles once predominated, citizens are left without an education or the appropriate skills to compete in an evolving work-force. To a large extent, the lesser developed countries of the world have become the factories and workshops for the developed countries. A high demand for cheap labor by multinational corporations in developed countries has resulted in the trafficking and exploitation of desperate workers who, in turn, are subjected to a lifetime of slave-like