Human Trafficking In Russia

Human trafficking has been developing more and has become into a big concern all over the world. Many human beings are being kidnapped and are being forced on doing activities that are inhuman. The United Nation defines human trafficking as a transpiration of people by using threats or force. They do this for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation could be described as being forced into prostitution, removal or organs, slavery, begging and other services. Many people believe that slavery has ended years ago but unfortunately it is still happening in Russia and in other countries. Human trafficking would be described as the modern-day equivalent to slavery. Russia has been popular for human trafficking. The most victims affected by this

type of activity are women and children. Children and women are targeted due to their lack of education and social class. Human trafficking consists of three elements, which are act, means and purpose. Act means by what is done such as transportation and harbouring of people. An example of a mean would how do these criminals do human trafficking is by the use of threat, coercion and much more. The purpose means that there is a reason why this is done. In the case of trafficking, they make a profit on prostitution, sexual exploitation does it and other activates.
Russia is where the most human trafficking takes place, due to corruption and the poor regulations. Human trafficking started in 1991, where the Soviet Union had a huge crisis in Russia. As a result of the crisis, unemployment increase and travel restrictions had increased. When a country has poverty, government corruption, and economic instability will lead to trafficking. Women’s are viewed as commodities and not as a human being. Since, there were many poor families that their only option was to sell their kids in order to survive for the next years. As of today, 1% of the population earns less than a dollar a day and 6% earn less than two dollars a day, this would still be considered poverty. Families who live under these conditions are still the most affected by human trafficking. Women are sold or being traded for other goods. 80% of human trafficking is issued with sexual exploitation. 70% out of 80% are woman being victims of this kind of activity. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian mafia still continues to infiltrate the government. To due the lack of regulations in Russia, many law enforcement and local policies are involved or customers of human trafficking. Even though, that there are poor regulations but the human rights treaties is taking action.
Human rights have been fighting against trafficking.

Human rights law has claimed that it is immorality and unlawfulness. Human rights law has also prohibited discrimination based on gender or skin color. They have demanded that everyone should be treated equally or non-citizens should have at least certain rights. Human rights law forbids forced labour and debt bondage. Forced labour includes exploitation of prostitution, enforced prostitution, child marriage, forced marriage, slavery, child sexual exploitation and servitude. All of these are related to human trafficking. Even though, that it is prohibited people still continue to do it. Debt bondage means that a person has agreed of labour or services in order to pay the debt that they had. This is illegal due to the fact that the debt is used as a mean of exploiting and controlling these

people.
The nature of a State’s obligations and responsibilities is to prevent human trafficking. Even though, treaties are the primary source for the States obligations regarding trafficking. States are responsible for binding obligations in international law and have to make sure that their own national legislation meets the requirements of that treaty. Afterwards, these obligations are enforced in international courts and tribunals with appropriate jurisdiction. There are two major human rights treaties, which are the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Both of these treaties contain substantive reference to trafficking. The Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination against Women became a treaty in September 1981. The treaty was developed because women should be treated equally as men in all fields. The Convention on the Rights of the Child was designed to protect children from violence. Violence includes, trafficking, exploitation and abuse. This treaty was developed in November 20, 1989 by the United Nations. It became an international treaty where children were entitled to human rights, such as civil, economic, cultural political and social rights. 194 countries have ratified the convention on this treaty and 3 countries have not. The 3 countries that have not ratified the convention are the United States, South Sudan, and Somalia.
Human trafficking has been growing all over world and in Russia especially.

Russia economic has been growing and it has lead to an increase in slave labor. The people are usually obtained from poor places in Russia, where they don’t have much education. In 2012, it was estimated that 600,000 people were trafficked for slave labor. They were promised with new jobs and a better future, but unfortunately this was a false statement. Since slave labor as been growing, it was affected the country and the world economically. The human trafficking business has been estimated to make a profit of $31 billion annually. Due to this business, there has been a lost wage in the formal economy of $21 billion. This business has grown all over Europe and has become into a multi-billion dollar

industry.
People are promised to work legally in Russia and have job that pays well. Once they are bought to Russia, they force them to work as slaves. The scheme usually takes place aboard or even in Russia where they are promised to make a weekly salary of $500 in Russia. Once the victim gets to Russia, their passport is confiscated. An example would be men working for 14 hour a day in grueling and they wouldn’t get paid. They wouldn’t get paid because they are told that they have to pay off their transportation fees and other services. It is hard to track when these activities are taking place. It is hard due to the fact of corruption, the local police officers are paid to look the other way and act like nothing as happened. If a federation employee tries to investigate a construction site using trafficked labor or any other industry, they would get threatened. People who are trafficked, do not seek for help from the policy or any other authority. If they contact the police, they will get deported and would have to pay fines.
According to the U.S. Department of State, labor trafficking is one of the biggest human trafficking problems within Russia. Labor trafficking is issued with manufacturing, textile, domestic service industry, begging on the streets, and much more. There are statistics that estimate that there are between 5 and 12 million of foreign workers in Russia. Many of the foreign workers experience exploitative labor conditions. The workers experience non-payment for services rendered, poor living conditions, physical abuse or their identity documents are taken away from them. As well, women and children from Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Central Asia are currently reported as victims of sex trafficking in Russia. Prostitutions that are forced usually occur in hotels, brothels, saunas and many other locations. For sexual services of children are advertised on the Internet by traffickers.