Thursday, March 7, 2013

Human Trafficking



Human Trafficking: The illegal trade of human beings for sexual slavery or forced labor.

Human trafficking is the fastest growing and second criminal enterprise in the world, and every country is affected by this. In the U.S alone there up to 100,000 slaves, with 27 million more slaves around the world, mainly in Africa and Asia. Human slavery is very popular because it's cheap due to many factors of the country that it is in. Being that human slavery cheap it is in very high demand. Around 600,000 and 800,000 men, women and children are sold into slavery. Some are sold into forced labor, most women and girls are sold into sex trafficking and. They are forced to work without no pay, no freedom to escape and live everyday in fright and violence. Most slave victims are children around the age of 18 and female, majority of them have been sold by their poor family to slave. Others are vulnerabe and desperate for work, tricked into slavery or kidnapped. The main part of human trafficking is sex. Girls are around the age 12-14 are sold into sex trafficking, what makes this type of trafficking popular is that the slave owner can make 20 times more than what he pay for the girl. The slave owners lure girls in by setting up broken promises and false opportunities, and find themeslves working in strip clubs, massage parlors and as prosititutes. Some escape, but the chances of that are very slim.
 


 

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