Persuasive Essay On Women's Trafficking

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Human rights has always been the main problem in the world. Every country it is fixed to have human rights issue, at least one, without .an exceptional. Human rights defined by the philosopher, John Locke (1632-1704) in the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776 which proclaims that:
“All men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity.”
From that declaration, human rights started to growing rapidly. Human rights supported by several international coventions and treaties. Human rights include in cultural, economic, and political rights. For example, right to life, right to have education, right to have …show more content…

Women are prevented from making deeply personal choices in their private lives. Women also don't have any power to do anything and always be the victims of negative things, such as trafficked into forced labor and sex slavery. Human trafficking is the third largest organized crime after drugs and the arms trade across the globe. And mostly, the victims of human trafficking are women and girls. That is why human trafficking issue, especially women’s trafficking, has not finished until now. Because despite great strides made by the international women’s rights movement over many years, there are still many women and girls that can’t avoid the women’s trafficking. Why the human traffickers still doing human trafficking? There are so many reasons why human traffickers still exist until today, but the two main reasons are low criminal risk and high profits. Human traffickers receive weak punishment from government, they have low chance of arrest and the public awareness about human trafficking is still low. Human traffickers also receive a high profits by selling human. Why human traffickers targeted women and girls as their victims? It is because women and girls disproportionately affected by poverty and discrimination. Some of the victims aware that they are being trafficked, because this is what they wanted, money. But they didn’t aware of the …show more content…

As per the statistics of the government in India, every eight minutes a child goes missing in India. In 2011, about 35.000 children were reported missing and more than 11.000 out of these were from West Bengal (one of a state in India). The most shocking thing is, it is assumed that only 30% of the total cases are reported, so the actual number is pretty high. And in India, the rate of selling or buying girls for prostitution is high. The incidence of procuring minor girls, and buying and selling of minor girls for prostitution is given in table

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