Put an End to Trafficking of Women – Insight on Human Trafficking

Trafficking is a crime against humanity. Getting someone by any means and putting them to forced labor or service, slavery, prostitution, manufacturing or other industries, even domestic service is the global right’s definition of trafficking.

The most common target are the women. A grave issue on human rights and development is Trafficking of women.

The issue on women trafficking is rampant such that an estimated 800,000 women and children are being trafficked worldwide, each year. It is so alarming that the US Department of Health and Human Services have put human trafficking on the top list that tied with illegal arms industry as the number one crime to watch out for.

Unfortunately, the bad news about human trafficking, especially those of women and children, do not end there. Sexual exploitation is one problem attached to human trafficking, approximated at 75%. And what is worse is that the number of women and children who become victims of sexual exploitation have exceeded the initial projection of 2.5 million.

But the sad reality is that there is no actual data on the exact number of victims because of the nature of the industry. Some facts on how recruitment happens.

Doubtful Promises

A much better life or work situation is the common promise “recuiters” give parents or parents give their children. The cost of women and children sold across the border is as little as one to two thousand dollars only.

Direct selling

Family members or victims’ own parents sell their children directly, just like selling a product.

Bondage

Young girls are arranged for marriage to pay off debts of certain families, forcing them to become sexual slaves or subjecting them to other forms of unjust labor.

Kidnapping

Another root problem on its own, trafficked women and children are sometimes kidnapped and taken forcibly then forced to work or sold to brothels.

Trafficking of women and children has become such a rampant crime. Both global and local community are doing their best to fight the crime. Several strategies have been employed by both government agencies and non-government groups.

Here are a few of them.

• Increased awareness programs regarding trafficking of women and children.
• The use of each country’s legal system to control or ttally eradicate prostitution.
• Providing alternative options of employment for women and children.
• Rescuing victims and putting them in rehabilitation programs.
• For centuries now, trafficking of women has been a ruthless crime.

Taking it sitting down and not taking action will surely perpetuate the growth of this barbaric industry, victimizing more and more women and children al over the world. Starting somewhere is the first step towards erasing it completely.

There are more than 27 million people worldwide who are victims of Human trafficking. People from all over the world are suffering, forcibly taken, sold as slaves or forced into prostitution because of this problem.
More and more victims are taken by organized crimes; therefore increasing the number of victims each year. Men, women and even children are forced to become slave-like either through force, threat or deception.
Human trafficking can now be paralleled to the strength of illegal arms industry. However, in order to appreciate this widely spread global problem, it is best to know the facts about the victims. [...] Continue Reading…

Sex trafficking is probably one of the cruelest form of crime ever to be committed on a minor. This happens when minors, boys and girls, under 18 years of age are forced to perform commercial sexual acts.
It is safe to conclude that women and children are the most common victims of sex trafficking, that it why women outnumber the men in the list of targets. However, this doesn’t mean that men are not a consideration.
There is no priority for Sex trafficking offenders, all are considered as casualty – men, women, boys and girls. Majority of victims fall for patterns [...] Continue Reading…

A very sobering experienc in San Fran, here’s a quote and direct link to the Realiy of Sex Trafficking in the United States article..

“Last Tuesday workers from S.A.G.E. (Standing Against Global Exploitation) spoke at our ABOLITION Project meeting about their work supporting victims of human trafficking in San Francisco. I learned that 43% of trafficking victims in California are transported through the Bay Area. Cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas function as regional trade hubs for women seduced or coerced into prostitution. Mollie, trafficking project manager for S.A.G.E, explained that there are myths surrounding [...] Continue Reading…

This post deals with some shocking human trafficking statistics.
We always hear about human trafficking. Yet, somehow, it seems we’ve gone calloused and look at it as something so detached from our reality.
The sad truth is that there are real people out there, people we don’t know, who are actually suffering because they are victims of human trafficking.
Victims are either taken forcibly or with consent and are forced to get into sexual acts against their own will. But the bottom line is that these people lose their human rights.
Below are some facts that will help you appreciate how this problem [...] Continue Reading…

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