Human Trafficking
Imagine yourself leaving for a trip you have been looking forward to for months. You are all packed and ready to go. The day has come for your departure. You board the plane, and finally reach your destination. You’re lost in the new city when trying to find your hotel so you ask for directions from a native. You find you hotel room and decide to take a nap because of the jetlag. You wake up in a place that you don’t know. At this point you are kidnapped. You can’t do anything to protect yourself and you have no possible way to escape. You end up being force to be involved in involuntary sexual exploitation or indentured servitude being sold for your body and labor. You are no longer a human being; you are nothing more than an object.
This terrible scenario I showed happens every day all over the world. Each year, thousands of women and children fall in the hands of trafficker, in their own country and abroad. Trafficking, the act which I am referring to is human trafficking. Human trafficking is an umbrella term used to describe all forms of modern-day slavery. No longer is this a term from the past, but a horrific reality in our present and, unfortunately, our future. Every 10 minutes, a woman or child is forced into labor (McGill 12).
But why would a sane human being have the mind to do such a heinous crime?
Reasons for trafficking are both inhumane and incredibly simple. To be blunt, the only reason why sexual exploitation occurs is essential for money. Cocaine wholesales for $1200 but you can only sell that once. But a women or child on the other hand, ranges from $50 to $1,000. But you can sell them each day, every day, over and over. This quote from the 2005 Lifetime film “Human Trafficking”, however chilling and horrifying, is true. Each year thousands and thousands of girls in the United States have to deal with the daily struggle if exploitation, abuse, and fear simply because selling people rather than having a legally run business makes more money. The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that global profits made from forced laborers exploited by private enterprises or agents reach $44.3 billion every year, of which $31.6 billion are from trafficked victims. Over $15 billion are made from people trafficked and forced to work in industrialized countries, with almost one-third coming from Asia. World profits from all forced commercial sexual exploitation amount to $33.9 billion, with $15.4 billion realized in industrial countries. This figure is followed by Asia, with $11.2 billion. Countries in transition generate a $3.5 billion profit, followed by Latin America ($2.1 billion) and the Middle East and North Africa ($1.1 billion).
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Sub-Saharan Africa is the region where these criminal annual profits are lowest, with an amount of $0.5 billion (United Nations).
The amount of money traffickers make annually from this ruthless crime is immeasurable.” Human trafficking is the third most lucrative criminal enterprise in the world after weapons and narcotics.”(Kahl)
Another reason that this industry is thriving at a rapid pace is because of a weak enforcement of laws and a lack of fundamental lack of understanding about human trafficking. With traffickers using clubs and massage parlors it’s difficult for law enforcement to prove that these brothels are illegal thus the thriving business.
People who are trafficked feel hopeless and alone, and the horrors they face daily are not acknowledges most of the time. All these women and children are usually abuse. They are, in most cases, raped and treated as replaceable objects. The traffickers instill so much fear and brainwashing into these people that they listen to anything they say, just so that they and their families are safe.
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With the many experiences people are having to deal with; exploitation, abuse, and dehumanization, it is imperative that people to know what human trafficking really looks like. But, until that time comes we will continue to hear stories of pole being used as living merchandise, abuse beyond belief and brainwashing on unimaginable scale.
