The Pros And Cons Of Human Trafficking

Imagine the faces of 200,000 children staring into the eyes of the courtroom for help as they are being told they are sentenced to prison for prostitution. Without knowledge of what it was exactly that they have done, they are struck with a look of devastation and fear for what is about to come. According to the Justice Department, those 200,000 children are trafficked for sex annually in just America alone (“Courts Take A Kinder Look At Victims Of Child Sex Trafficking”). While it seems illogical that these innocent humans should be prosecuted of something so severe, it is an everyday occurrence globally, which needs to be stopped. Although it can be very difficult to establish the credibility of certain claims from speakers, charging victims

Before, it was shown in the Atlantic Slave Trade for physical labor in the sugar plantations, but it is now common to see trafficking for sex. As of right now, “It is estimated that as many as 27 million men, women, and children around the world are victims of what is now often described with the umbrella term ‘human trafficking’” ("How Can Human Trafficking Be Addressed?"). By definition, human trafficking is the term used to identify the illegal transporting of people for various reasons. This means more than a quarter of a billion people are being mistreated and stripped of their rights as humans ("How Can Human Trafficking Be Addressed?"). When these victims have already been dehumanized, it makes no sense to keep up the treatment of trapping them in a prison, almost like animals in a zoo. Treating these innocent people as animals is extremely immoral and should be banned. In fact, there is a promise of freedom to everybody worldwide through Article four of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Palermo Protocol to the Transnational Organized Crime Convention ("How Can Human Trafficking Be Addressed?"). Although it is

After experiencing such traumatic situations, many of these people live in distress of being used yet again. With therapy, the victims could finally gain control over their lives rather than continuing to be told what to do constantly, as they would be in prison. Notably, many victims of sex trafficking develop PTSD and a similar disorder known as C-PTSD after experiencing traumatic events. Although similar, these two disorders are not the exact same. While PTSD can be triggered by trauma reminders, C-PTSD is a deeper issue and affects the core of one’s self-organization (“Following ISIS captivity, Yazidi women suffering from high percentage of C-PTSD”). When such high numbers of victims are found to have developed these disorders that drastically affect their everyday life, it is important to help them cope with them. After experiencing the extreme abuse, victims are still afraid of being attacked again and also live a life of sorrow because they believe it was all their fault. With PTSD and C-PTSD also being found in people who have gone through other situations that involve many extremes including witnessing a death, it is shown that sex trafficking is truly impactful on victims’ lives and they should be assisted with it. In prison, it would be stressed on these people that it really was their fault, which