Human Trafficking Essay

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Human Trafficking: A Crime Against Humanity

By Jeremy McNeil
Due 5/2/2014

Human Trafficking
Over the course of history millions of people have been taken and used for the specific purpose of financial gain. The work these victims do range from sexual acts to manual labor. The victims are often taken and moved to a new location that they are unfamiliar with, and they are forced to do work. Human trafficking has ranged from slavery to brothels. People from all walks of life and ages. Children were often taken to do Menial labor and sexual acts, while adults were also used for organ transplantation. Human trafficking is one of the most cutthroat and ruthless business where people are thought to be completely expendable, but through public awareness and laws human trafficking could eventually be almost non existent.
Human trafficking is by no means a new business, its origins include slavery, prostitution, and removal of organs. Slavery and prostitution have been around since before records were kept, but one of the most notable points in early human trafficking history was the Scramble for Africa. In terms of slavery this was nothing new, since European nations conquered and enslaved many nations. In terms of human trafficking this was huge because thousands of africans were taken to the united states and europe as slaves to work on plantations. With the new workforce Europe had captured and enslaved, the development of colonies now became a quick and easy venture that could develop income in the form of crops all over the world for europe. As the world developed and changed slavery became illegal in most nations, and human trafficking went from being completely legal, to an underground business.
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...some of their most important include training law enforcement officers how to deal with human trafficking, and the rehabilitation of the victims.
After the creation of the polaris project, the floodgates for non profits combating human trafficking burst open with many new organizations. Human trafficking is no longer a myth few know about, now it is a commonly known subject, and on January eleventh, 2011 president Barack Obama declared January to be national Human Trafficking awareness month. The main barrier of awareness has been overcome, but still many million are trafficked across the borders of many different countries daily. Only with public support can the war on human trafficking be put to an end, if everyone pleads with their politicians to increase penalties and arrests on human trafficking this crime on humanity can be put to rest.

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