Essay On Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking is an on going issue throughout the world. It is the trade in humans most likely for sexual and labor exploration. Trafficking of humans is a very unique crime that violates so many people. Women have it the hardest in this world wide crime because they are usually targeted for sexual exploration. Women go under physical and emotional trauma while being completely violated by their traffickers. They experience sexual assaults, rape, imprisonment, cruel abuses and much more. Women are targeted the most also because of their lack of education making them more vulnerable to their traffickers. Women are more affected by poverty and discrimination causing them to travel and look for better lives. This puts them in a position that they make themselves an easier target for their traffickers. Slavery also contributes to human trafficking. Slavery is the system in which people are sold and bought and forced to work. Slaves are put under excruciating conditions which makes it harder for them to cope with the fact that they might never return home. Forms of slavery were around before the 1400s but in the 1400s it started the trading and transporting of humans from Africa to Portugal. This marked the European Slave Trade while the British decided to join in 1562. As the development of plantation colonies grew so did the amount of slave trade going on throughout the world. As time went on more and more countries started to get involved with slave trade like in the 1600’s. Countries like Spain, Holland ,North America, France, Sweden and even Denmark came into slave trade. Also as more time started to pass in 1932 Japan got involved. Japan set up a disturbing yet horrifying system in which women all over Asia were forced into s...

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...d make them more educated about the situation to hopefully prevent more trafficking from occurring. Deputy General Commissioners met in Phnom Penh to be trained on the investigation of sexual exploitation and gain knowledge about human trafficking in September later that year. Later in October Cambodia National Police Gender group with Protection Pillar put together a workshops for officers that focused on the violence against women. Officers were expected to go to a 3 day workshop to be educated. Ms. Kanha Chan speaks about what she thinks of the workshop.

“ This workshop is a start to enhancing the capacity of the provincial and national women police officers and to actively promote gender equality men and women police officers.” (United)

Protection Pillars attempt to increase the education of Cambodia’s officers has been increasing but it is taking time.