Ian Hallock Mr. Schoen English IV February 23, 2023 Human Trafficking: Answering questions to analyze the topic How would you feel to have your life stolen from you, not by death but by not being able to live, being a slave to the most evil people on the planet. 27.6 million seems like a big number, but once you put faces on each individual you realize how bad this really is. Many people across the globe have experience, and have been affected by human trafficking at alarming rates. Human trafficking is the illegal trade of people done by cartels and drug lords and ultimately fueled by the rich and powerful people, and eventually they will be stopped.
Human trafficking is modern day slavery. It is ugly and many people don’t like to talk about it. They would like to think it doesn’ t exist. Many very highly educated people say it is not slavery, they say that because the word yes comes out of their mouths, or the word no never does that it is not forced. Some say it’s a business and is an economic opportunity.
Sex trafficking, the words alone are enough to send chills down my spine. Let alone children and sex trafficking, but what about children in America being used in sex trafficking rings. Now it should resonate within the hearts and minds of all Americans. This is not an issue that is across the border or across a sea. This is happening to 100,000 children in America, or more (Fang).
How does human trafficking affect the ones who are victimized? People who are victims of human trafficking have a very tough time after they have been rescued. Years after they get out of it, they still have to go to therapy frequently. Human Trafficking does a great deal on the victims in many ways, starting off with psychological to physical problems. They experience a various psychological problem, such as post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, depression, anxiety, panic disorder, suicidal thoughts, Stockholm Syndrome, and substance abuse.
Kenley Koop Mrs. Pace English 9-6 27 April 2023 Human Trafficking The debate in the video “Human Trafficking” more funding and government involvement for the projects they need to build a better end of human trafficking. In the video it interprets that human trafficking is being stopped by Ashton Kutcher’s team and himself by creating an app to stop the Dark Web that plays a huge part in human trafficking. Kutcher also talked about how hard it was to see little girls in that situation and not knowing what is going on. It was difficult for everyone except the guy doing it.
I had the opportunity to interview my good friend Andy Yarborough about his experience as a board member of Trafficking Hope Louisiana. Trafficking Hope Louisiana a nonprofit that provides two primary services. The first is to provide transitional, short, and long-term care for sex-trafficking victims. The other is to educate the public about human trafficking issues. At any given time, Trafficking Hope Louisiana serves five to fifteen women who are referred by Texas, Florida, and Louisiana state officials, as well as, Homeland Security.
In the United States, human trafficking has taken on different forms than what is normally thought of as human trafficking. It can range from a migrant laborer wanting to get a job to be able to support his family to survive who is then forced into manipulative work to a child running away to get away from abuse that is happening at home and the person that is helping the child get away from the abusive situation at home turns out to be exploiting him or her to make a profit (Farrell et al, 2014). According the International Labour Organization has estimated that 20.9 million people are involved in human trafficking in the whole world, with 1.5 million victims are in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. In 2011, there were 3,969 convictions worldwide, and there were only 151 convictions in the United States.
When people talk about slavery in the present day, almost of them thinks about that like something has passed and happened for a very long time ago. However, the slavery still exists and happens every day around people. Not only that but also today, its scale is bigger and more brutal than it did in the past. According to all available evidence, in the modern day, slavery is called by the other name that is human trafficking. Human trafficking is one of the most brutal crimes were caused by human; it is the commerce of humans for sexual exploitation and forced labor through a wicked ways like violence, kidnapping, threat or deceit.
Human Trafficking is an illegal industry designed to kidnapped innocent people and sell them for purposes of sex and/or forced labor. Unfortunately, human
Have you ever wondered what happens around you, or have you felt a feeling of danger, like you are being watched or followed? There are threats all around us that go unnoticed. We are so unaware of our surroundings that it costs us our lives, and maybe our children. A threat like this goes unnoticed most times, but it can bring so many horrific things when we are unaware of such a crime. Human Trafficking presents problems such as lack of awareness and survivors’ guilt; however, solutions like increased awareness and therapy.
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.
Human trafficking as well as slave labor are not a joking matter. Each day humans like you and I are stripped from their houses. Some are set out to work with farms, others, in factories. Sex slaves are people, mostly women and children who are forced to do sexual acts with their predator. People are commanded, as well as being controlled to work either by being terrified, or fake love.
Now after listing some of the official organization that are using technology to help end this form of slavery, I would like to list some of the ways we, in this modern age, can help end this grievous crime. It might be easy to hear the facts about human trafficking, but fall into the false idea that it is simply up to our government and other such groups to deal with this important issue, and this is simply not true, in our technology advanced day and age it is now easier than ever to help do our part to help end this horror. Anyone can and should join in the fight against human trafficking, we can do this by, learning the indicators of human trafficking so you can help identify a potential trafficking victim. Human trafficking awareness training is available for individuals, businesses, first responders, law enforcement, educators, and federal employees, and many others. You can work with a local religious community or congregation to help stop trafficking by supporting a victim service provider or spreading awareness of human trafficking or encourage your local schools to partner with students and include modern slavery in their curricula.
Human trafficking Reflection Introduction: 150 billion. Human tracking generates a profit of 150 billion dollars a year ( SlaveryFootprint ). Many people grew up knowing or were taught slavery ended in 1865 ( history.com staff). Pleasing as that sounds, slavery still exists as of to this day. This gruesome labor system is known as human tracking or modern day slavery.
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil but by those who watch them without doing anything”-Albert Einstein Human Trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labour, organs removal, commercial sex exploitation and economic exploitation. Normally, trafficking is done by threat, compulsion, abduction, fraud, misleading, abuse of power, vulnerability, giving payments or benefits to a person in control of the victim .Trafficking in person is a serious crime and dignified violation of human rights . Most of people nowadays do not know that human slavery still exists; after it was abolished 150 years ago, its proven when there is an auction of young women intended for sexual slavery occurred publicly in Britain highly policed location and another auction even took place in front of a café at Greenwich Airport, Britain (News by BBC UK, 4 June 2006, 14.31 GMT). These crimes have been booming and become a global phenomenon when victims from at least 153 countries were detected in 124 countries worldwide between 2010 and 2012.
