Sex trafficking in Russia is a problem because the government looks the other way or is bribed to ignore the issue. The solution to this problem is start a program for sex trafficking victims with the government involved so the victims aren’t treated like criminals. These victims need to be able to go to the police or a government agency and tell them what happened and they need to address the problem. Young people need to be informed of the situation in Russia because that is how they keep getting victims. Women are promised a better education or a free education or a better job or more money and they go to Russia from other countries and they end up as victims in sex trafficking. Sex trafficking is a problem because the government looks the …show more content…
Mostly in Russia it is where the sex slaves are brought to and get into sex trafficking, they are then shipped or sold to another pimp or leader of sex trafficking to another country. The Russian government ignore the issue meaning the government needs to recognize there is a problem and start a program a rehab center for the women who have been put in this situation. They need to talk to other women who know what they’ve been through so they know they aren’t alone. Women especially women put in a situation like this need companionship and to have a conversation about what has happened to them so it doesn’t happen to other women. There needs to be some kind of program to put these victims through rehab and they need to talk about it. This issue would be solved if people were more aware of the problem they wouldn’t go to Russia to get a better education and wouldn’t be promised a better job. These women are being tortured in one word. These girls are sex slaves and quite a few of them are involved involuntarily. Although some women do end up in it voluntarily to better whomever for the purpose of money to keep someone else
...se that still happens in majority of the world. Underprivileged and depressed children are victims that are usually targeted and because of that, governments and human rights organization have created laws that protect victims and prosecute traffickers. The act of luring victims into sex trafficking takes a form where the trafficker has to find ways to please the target and get victims to rely on them. Physical and psychological pain are inflicted on victims in order for them to stay in the Life which causes later effects felt by the victims when freed. In all attempts to protect and fight for the justice of the victims, the United States government came up with the TVPA but in turn that act seems to fail the victims. Sex trafficking is evident and highly extreme in the States. It happens around us every day, affecting and the destroying the lives of young females.
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Some governments still don’t have any laws that ban this evil and it is not good for people who suffer from it as it runs rampant in those countries. The places that need the government's help with this the most, have governments that are failing to protect them. The UN Chronicle says that the only way to end sex trafficking and give these victims the closure they deserve is the “prosecution of traffickers and protection of victims”(UN Chronicles). It is not the girls fault and if these traffickers are punished and made an example of, it could discourage others from following this dark path and this will mitigate and eventually end sex trafficking. Some countries don’t persecute the traffickers, or they do very little to punish them and this needs to change to eliminate sex trafficking. When some countries are “lagging behind with no counter-trafficking laws at all”(Jesionka), this prevents people who are held captive from getting the justice they deserve in some parts of the world. If the world worked together to eliminate this, the countries that are exploited for this trade would keep their people safer. The countries need to take on these traffickers if there is going to be any difference in this modern slavery. Not enough is being done to catch and punish these criminals and this is a giant problem. When others can actually see the problem, their governments
Discussion Significance The results provided by the present research study supported the hypothesis that there is a need of safe housing for sexually exploited and sex trafficked youth in Rochester, Minnesota. With a growing population and an expanding community, Rochester is seeing an increase in the demand for sexual trafficking. Although this issue is present, it can be difficult to identify the victims. More specifically, victims often fall through the cracks and since a lot of agencies or programs tend to be female-oriented, male victims will often go unnoticed more than female victims.
Awareness of child sexual trafficking can be viewed as a balanced scale, with one side representing the country’s population that is fully informed of the issue, while the other side is either unaware or unattached to the issue. The public needs to have more involvement with this affair based on multiple concerns; first, the act of child sex trafficking itself is a serious crime that violates human rights (Fong & Cardoso, 2010). Second, various negative health repercussion including transmittable sexual diseases, physical damages, mental disturbance, post traumatic stress disorders, and other illnesses plague many victims (Fong & Cardoso, 2010). Third, sexual trafficking is responsible for generating poverty as a result of obstructing economic, and social development (Reid, 2012). Child sex trafficking proves to be a global dilemma affecting numerous countries
The women and children of Eastern Europe are no longer safe. Not in their own homes not anywhere. There are many reasons why the citizens are not safe. Due to poverty and inhuman living conditions, these citizens will do anything to get out. Even, if the only way is to put themselves in dangerous or life threatening situations. It is mostly women that put themselves in these situations. Some of these women do not care if they are tricked into doing vile, disgusting acts for other and sadly the children have no option. Yet the children are dragged into it anyway. These acts are also known as Human Sex Trafficking. Or a branch off of human trafficking. Many believe that Sex Trafficking in Europe is a crime
Sex trafficking is when women, young girls, and young boys are held in slavery and forced into prostitution for the financial gain of others in brothels in the United States, Europe, and other developing countries such as Thailand and the Philippines (Sexual Slavery). It’s happened to many women and children throughout many years in many of these countries for money and more power. Often purchased or kidnapped off the street, women, girls, and boys are trafficked across international
Although slavery and sex/human trafficking is not a topic that neither makes it in the daily headlines of the news nor, is consider the latest trend, or an epidemic for that matter. This epidemic is here to stay, affecting us world wide, becoming almost an infestation, affecting every country in the world but specially our “perfect” society. It is so wide that it can no longer be swap under the rug, pretending and ignoring that it does not exist.
Sex trafficking involves commercial sexual exploitation, is a gendered phenomenon whose victims are overwhelmingly women, and includes both international and domestic cases, in which there is no border crossing. Non consenting adults and all children forced into sexual activity (commercial or otherwise) deserve the full protection of the law and perpetrators deserve full punishment by the law. According to Linda Smith and Samantha Vardaman, child prostitution is “in cases where children under eighteen years of age are being prostituted, they count as victims of sex trafficking by definition, irrespective of whether they self-identify as victims.” While the U.S. federal government encourages states localities to identify and criminalize sex trafficking victims, the widespread failure of state and local governments to do so results in failure by the United States to comply with its own “minimal requirements for the elimination of human trafficking” articulated in the TIP report. If prostitution was legalized and sex workers had a good relationship with law enforcement. Law enforcements can use sex workers as vital key information sources to uncover sex trafficking rings. Prohibition of prostitution only provide cover to sex traffickers because it gives them the power to use the law to threaten women victims, particularly the younger ones. Women and children, who are forced against their will into
In order to understand how sex trafficking affects its victims, one must first know the severity of sex trafficking and what it is. The issue of sex trafficking affects 2.5 million people at any given time (Abas et al., 2013). The form of sex slavery affects many women and children across the world. Even though both males and females are sexually trafficked and exploited, there is a deep emphasis on the sexual exploitation of women and children. This is due to gender discrimination (Miller, 2006). This is because women and children are more vulnerable and appeal to the larger populations of brothels and the so-called “clients” since the majority are men. Ecclestone (2013) stated that children as young as age three are trafficked. Sex trafficking has changed over time; “Today, the business of human sex trafficking is much more organized and violent. These women and young girls are sold to traffickers, locked up in rooms or brothels for weeks or months, drugged, terrorized, and raped repeatedly” (Walker-Rodriguez & Hill, 2011). It is found that many of the victims of sex trafficking are abducted, recruited, transported and forced into involuntary “sex work”. These sexual acts include prostitution, exotic dancing, pornography, and sexual escort services (McClain & Garrity, 2011). What happens to these sex trafficking victims is extremely traumatizing.
Sex trafficking is a world wide epidemic. It targets unknowing victims such as women and children enslaving them and exploiting their innocence. Human trafficking is becoming one of the biggest money making organized crimes in the world. The sex trade is one of the most profitable of all current slave trades. Through the age, gender, class, and race many are trapped in a never-ending cycle of coercion and abuse in order to survive in the corrupt society around them. In order to stop this monstrosity in the world, we need to start at the root of the problem. We must bridge the barriers between gender, class, and race in order to respect one another and live in harmony
To change in the dynamics of sex trafficking there should be national anti-trafficking plan that recommends prevention, protection for victims and prosecution of traffickers. If there is no plan that recommend protection and prosecution of offender, sex trafficking will still be an issue to battle with from generation to generation.
One reason why human trafficking is a serious crime that many people are unaware of is because it secretly takes place in the United States. Between 2007 and 2012, there were reports of 9,298 different cases of human trafficking (Polaris Project). An example of how unknown this topic is is that 41% of sex trafficking cases and 20% of labor trafficking cases were proven to have United States citizens as victims (Polaris Project). And this is only what we know so far. There are thousands of cases that we don’t know about. Many people also don’t know that men, women, and even children are also taken hostage by human traffickers. An example of this would be that out of those 9,298 cases that were reported, women were victims of sex trafficking in 85% of those cases. Men were victims of labor trafficking in 40% of those cases (Polaris Project). Approximately 300,000 children are at risk of being prostituted in the United States (U.S. Department of Justice). Children are even more under the radar than we know about. On average, one in three teenagers on the street will be lured toward prostitution within 48 hours of leaving their home (National Runaway Hotline). For example, two female friends who were minors ran away from home and were prom...
The complexity of the crime needs to be understood before tackling it. Anti-trafficking measures need to be embedded federally and globally to improve awareness, and essentially, reduce vulnerability. That being said, my recommendation to solving this dilemma, is to bring attention to it from all sides. In 2000, the United Nations established the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, which has been signed by over 177 countries, in the means to take down this industry. Then in 2008, 1.5 million signatures were delivered to the UN from people calling for an end to trafficking. Although these efforts seem plenty, more needs to be done, and not by the country as a whole, but individuals as a whole. I believe that it should be mandatory for schools to teach what trafficking it, who it affects, and how it can be solved in the future. Teaching children can make them knowledgeable about what is happening and how to prevent it from happening to others and themselves. An important aspect of this teaching people how to read signs of trafficking. Communities should have programs that bring together members and informing them about the prevention of trafficking, prosecution of traffickers and protection of victims. The biggest obstacle that would need to be overcome is getting everybody on board. People assume that they are living in a safe environment where crimes like this don’t happen, but in reality, this can happen anywhere. Again, getting them aware to what is happening is the only way that can convince them to be apart of finding solutions. Because human trafficking is such a large industry, the government should be responsible for providing laws, programs, and money to battle this situation. Trying to solve this at a local or even state level can be difficult because some people
Human trafficking is a worldwide problem. From California to Australia, it happens. “161 countries are reported to be affected by human trafficking by being either a source, transit, or destination count. Out of the 161 countries, 56% of those are in Asia and the Pacific, being the number one place it occurs” (UNGIFT). Trailing far behind with 10% is Latin America and the Caribbean” (UNGIFT). No matter the location or the state of the economy, human trafficking is always in progress. “People are reported to be trafficked from 127 countries to be exploited in 137 countries, affecting every continent and every type of economy” (UNGIFT). “The majority of trafficking victims are between the ages of 18 and 24 years old” (UNGIFT). Just because those are the most common ages, doesn't mean that it only happens to them. Children are also affected by human trafficking. “An estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked each year” (UNGIFT). So many people think that it is just teens and adults that get stuck into the trafficking business, but it is also small children.