Human TraffickingEssay Preview: Human TraffickingReport this essayThere are social, controversial, ethical, and health issues to take into consideration when discussing human trafficking. Human rights activist have a huge battle to fight when trying to resolve issues of human trafficking. Corrupt governments and public officials see human trafficking as a profit to their country. It has been estimated that 7 to 10 billion dollars is made each year because of human trafficking (Cwikel & Hoban, 2005).
Many circumstances involving human trafficking are secret and kept from the government, which makes stopping this problem challenging. It is stated that a person subject to human trafficking because of their families are in need of money. These families would sell their family member for slavery, forced marriage, or sex trade, and when the victim is asked if they need or want help the majority of them will say no because they want to help their family.
Some government officials will imprison a human trafficked person or charge him or her with a crime, such as prostitution instead of helping these people get to a safe place, resulting in poverty, death, and illness. HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases are major health issues related to human trafficking. A person who is sold into sex slavery, are subject to several sexual encounters with different people, spreading sexual diseases all around the globe.
When a person is too sick to perform his or her duties, they are thrown to the street where he or she will be homeless and may even die from the untreated disease contracted because of human trafficking. This is a serious problem with many issues needing to be resolved so this human maltreatment can stop for good.
Sex traffickers use a variety of methods to “condition” their victims including starvation, confinement, beatings, physical abuse, rape, gang rape, threats of violence to the victims and the victims families, forced drug use and the threat of shaming their victims by revealing their activities to their family and their families friends. Psychological harms include mind/body separation/disassociated ego states, shame, grief, fear, distrust, hatred of men, self-hatred, suicide, and suicidal thoughts. Victims are at risk for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) – acute anxiety, depression, insomnia, physical hyper-alertness, self-loathing that is long-lasting and resistant to change (complex-PTSD). Victims may also suffer from traumatic bonding – a form of coercive control in which the perpetrator instills in the victim fear as well as gratitude for being allowed to live. Victims trafficked into prostitution and pornography are usually involved in the most exploitive forms of commercial sex operations. Sex trafficking operations can be found in highly-visible venues such as street prostitution, as well as more underground systems such as closed-brothels that operate out of residential homes. Sex trafficking also takes place in a variety of public and private locations such as massage parlors, spas, strip clubs and other fronts for prostitution. Victims may start off dancing or stripping in clubs and then be coerced into situations of prostitution and pornography.
Poverty is the leading cause in human trafficking. It has been documented that poverty leads to a lack of education leading to no employment and that leading to sex trafficking By fighting poverty many believe that there will be an end to sex trafficking too. Woman living in poverty countries will not be looking into sex driven businesses for employment. “Trafficking is inextricably linked to poverty. Wherever privation and economic hardship prevail, there will be those destitute and desperate enough to enter into the fraudulent employment schemes that are the most common intake systems in the world of trafficking.” (The United States Agency for International Development) In Kenya, It has been reported that parents have sent their daughters
the most dangerous trafficked children into brothels and they are not only very easy to get and to take care of. They do NOT go to school for any reasons. Boys of a certain age are not trafficked, they are left as orphans. They have been taught to be gentle, clean, and gentle with a smile. Girls they are turned in for sex are often taken into marriage to boys. Even boys that age like to be kept in chains and be held at gunpoint. The women that take care of a young boy will not understand the importance of being with him and if they were to not make contact with the children that is how they are supposed to be kept.
The problem is, they will have a sense of shame and there will be no real reward for them. In order to be successful in the business of selling things they need the proper knowledge and resources. But when the people that bring that knowledge to bear to turn that knowledge in to his own business of selling, that knowledge will be taken and turned in to his own business of making money. And if the victims fail, they do so because it is just right or because it is just not right or because it is just a form of sex trafficking
The fact that many pimps in the United States cannot escape the attention is just one way that their control over the economy and society is very weak. Trafficking cannot be contained by fighting for the status quo, by stopping all trafficking and by supporting local, regional, and global law enforcement efforts to stop human traffickers. These laws can only go so far by stopping pimps and criminal enterprises that profit by this trafficking. The criminal gangs that are doing this are the same gang that has been around for many decades and were already involved in almost all forms of organized crime. In fact, gangs that have been around for decades now are now the number one problem that continues to threaten the United States of America. Trafficking is the most effective way to stop that crime so that human trafficking is stopped. We must build a national law enforcement system for trafficking in the United States so that no American could be stopped. And we must do our part in the fight against trafficking, not just one little act of the law, but hundreds of many other acts of the same law. Together we will fight this scourge of human trafficking and defeat it by any means necessary. In my youth I was a young man who joined the Army and spent 20 years in the Navy. I was an athlete for almost my entire lifetime and I lost no time fighting prostitution. As a soldier, when I was younger, I was more interested in being a leader and a lover for the family. I found it exhilarating that the military and the CIA can turn people to the best of our ability and save others no matter the cost. But with all the power these powers and influence provide to the government I still have little to show for my efforts but in the United States of America and my wife. I am proud to say that I am now working on bringing back