Human Sinking: A Persuasive Speech: Human Trafficking

“Number 124. From Columbia.” The girl adjusted the label on her. Standing on the auction platform, head bowed, she looked seemingly young. 13 years old. With ruffled hair and caramel complexion, just like any other girls. Except, her eyes, staring at the ground, were overwhelmed with nothing but lost hope. Her stoned face, spoke a thousand words. Her soul, was long gone. “Twenty thousand!! Forty thousand!! Calling once…calling twice…. SOLD!!!” At that very moment, tears streamed down her cheeks. At that very moment, she was devastated. At that very moment, a life is lost. Human trafficking. Imagine one day, as you are casually walking home from school, you are taken away. Taken away from your family, friends and freedom. To be sold. To go

As soon as they arrive, they are sold into the prostitution industry and sent them to the brothel to do their ‘job’. Many girls, even as young as four are forced to sell their bodies to please men. They are forced to dress revealingly to fulfil the desires of immoral, iniquitous and inhuman men. Their bodies are labelled with a price and treated like a commodity. Every part of them is violated by those men who pay just to own them for 45 minutes and when they refuse, gun would be pointed at their heads. They would be locked up in a room, kicked around vigorously and whipped until they are covered with blood. Therefore, they have no choice but to pull through sexual abuse to pay off their debts bondage to the point where they lose self- worth, the confidence to look in the mirror, and the purpose to live. Shandra Woworuntu, one of the sex trafficking survivor, shared that it was excruciatingly exhausting to last a whole day with only plain rice soup and prickles as their source of energy. The mental and physical struggle that they have to go through is utterly

It is all happening around us. Little do you realise, human trafficking may be behind every piece of clothing that you own. Human trafficking may be behind every food that you consume. Human trafficking may even be happening in your neighbour’s house. Human trafficking victims are forced to work for hours in the scorching sun and through the freezing winter just to fulfil our needs. They work through dawn and dusk just so that you can have your desired wardrobe and perhaps a cup of coffee. They have to be u before dawn and only allowed to rest when the dawn break, 15 hours a day, 90 hours a week, only to earn 45 pounds a month. They play such a big part in our lives and yet we are oblivious to the plight that they are put through while we continuously living on the ‘greener side’ of the world. Given their hard work, they are not rewarded but instead, they are brutally abused and starved when they make mistakes. These people have to suffer so that people like us do not have