*Human trafficking, is believed to be the third-largest criminal activity in the world, because it is in form of human slavery . Human trafficking includes forced labor, domestic servitude, and commercial sex trafficking, and its mostly Violent Crimes Against Children.
Overview
Here in some country, people are being bought, sold, and smuggled like modern-day slaves, sometimes beaten, starved, and forced to work as prostitutes, domestic, restaurant, or factory workers with no pay.
Over the past decade, human trafficking has been identified as a heinous act against humanity.
Types of Human Trafficking
The most common types of human trafficking are :
- sex trafficking
- forced labor and
- debt bondage.
Forced labor also known as involuntary servitude, is the biggest sector of trafficking in the world.
Debt bondage is another form of human trafficking in which an individual is forced to work in order to pay a debt.
Sex trafficking disproportionately affects women and children which involves forced participation in commercial sex acts, any child under the age of 18 who has been involved in a commercial sex act is considered a trafficking victim. Women and girls make up 80% of the people trafficked transnationally. annually, traffickers involve 1 million children in the commercial sex trade.
Perceptions of human trafficking often involve women forced into prostitution. This is just one aspect of human trafficking.
Survivors of trafficking also include men and children, and these survivors are exploited by any means. Victims may be forced into any of the following types of labor, among others:
domestic servitude
hotel services
construction
health and elder care
hair and nail salons
prostitution
strip club dancing
Some survivors are “mail-order” brides who believe they are going to a new country for marriage, but instead are enslaved. All nationalities and ethnic groups are vulnerable to human trafficking. Any given country may be a source of forced labor, a place of transit, or a destination.
Human trafficking involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act.
many people and children are trafficked in countries around the world, It is estimated that human trafficking generates many billions of dollars of profit per year.Human trafficking is a hidden crime as victims rarely come forward to seek help because of language barriers, fear of the traffickers.
Traffickers use force, fraud, or coercion to lure their victims and force them into labor or commercial sexual exploitation. They look for people who are susceptible for a variety of reasons, including emotional vulnerability, economic hardship, lack of a social safety net, natural disasters, or political instability.
conclusion
The trauma caused by the traffickers can is so great that many did not identify themselves as victims or even ask for help, even in highly public settings.