Sex trafficking has many definitions when looked up and there has yet to be solid internationally used definition, but the over all main meaning found throughout all is the act of forcing a person through violence, manipulation, drugs, threats, etc. to perform sexual acts of all types against their wills; and as said by George in Sex Trafficking and Sex Work: Definitions, Debates and Dynamics — A Review of Literature it is when “primarily women and children are coerced or deceived for the purpose of commercial sex exploitation.” Sex trafficking is clearly a violation of a persons human rights and is a type of modern slavery that unfortunately countless of people have to become victims of. People from all over the world are potential victims …show more content…
Because of the lack of care most victims have, physical consequences can not only cause long term effects but can easily also lead to death. Physical developments are more dangerous, harder to over come, can cause further long term concerns, and can negatively influence the victim’s situation while still with traffickers. The common physical effects that sex trafficking victims suffer stated in Fact Sheet: Sex Trafficking (English) are “drug and alcohol addiction; physical injuries (broken bones, concussions, burns, vaginal/anal tearings); traumatic brain injury (TBI) resulting in memory loss, dizziness, headaches, numbness; sexually transmitted diseases (e.g., HIV/AIDS, gonorrhea, syphilis, UTIs, pubic lice); sterility, miscarriages, menstrual problems; other diseases (e.g., TB, hepatitis, malaria, pneumonia); and forced or coerced abortions.” Same as mental effects, if these physical effects go untreated they can go bad very quick. Without proper care the possibility of death is very high and extremely probable. When physical damage has occurred and it has not been tended too victims could have trouble with the traffickers because they are not performing and complying with the orders that are given to them. Some of the physical illness that are attained by victims are ones that are incurable and because of them they will permanently alter the
Some governments still don’t have any laws that ban this evil and it is not good for people who suffer from it as it runs rampant in those countries. The places that need the government's help with this the most, have governments that are failing to protect them. The UN Chronicle says that the only way to end sex trafficking and give these victims the closure they deserve is the “prosecution of traffickers and protection of victims”(UN Chronicles). It is not the girls fault and if these traffickers are punished and made an example of, it could discourage others from following this dark path and this will mitigate and eventually end sex trafficking. Some countries don’t persecute the traffickers, or they do very little to punish them and this needs to change to eliminate sex trafficking. When some countries are “lagging behind with no counter-trafficking laws at all”(Jesionka), this prevents people who are held captive from getting the justice they deserve in some parts of the world. If the world worked together to eliminate this, the countries that are exploited for this trade would keep their people safer. The countries need to take on these traffickers if there is going to be any difference in this modern slavery. Not enough is being done to catch and punish these criminals and this is a giant problem. When others can actually see the problem, their governments
Human trafficking is a health care issue in that health care is often central to restoring the life and well-being of the trafficking survivor. The Family Violence Prevention Fund (2005) surveyed trafficking victims and health care providers and found that medical needs ranked second after housing and before advocacy and legal help in trafficking victims' needs (ibid.) (Kempadoo, Sanghera & Pattanaik, 2015). Regardless of the form of their exploitation, people who are trafficked suffer severe abuse that often results in outward physical injuries. Victims may suffer malnutrition, broken bones and teeth, facial injuries, and infected open wounds in addition to infectious diseases. Many victims are of childbearing age and have no access to birth
Criminal penalties for human trafficking include prison sentences up to 15-years-to-life and fines up to $1,500,000. There is a much higher risk than reward. Therefore the average American willing to do this is usually not too bright. The trafficking of women and adolescents is increasingly recognized as one of the world’s fastest growing crimes and a significant violation of human rights. Despite the need for evidence on the physical and psychological health consequences to inform rapidly emerging policies and services for trafficked persons, there is limited evidence about the needs of women who have been trafficked. The health of women and adolescent girls trafficked for sexual exploitation in Mexico have been
Human trafficking victims can be forced to do different things such as physical labor and prostitution. The things that usually are key to trafficking are that the victims are vulnerable to anything that involves a better life or involving moving into the U.S. The main reason is that they suffer from poverty; the victims want to help their family with money and are open to whatever way there is to get money. In addition, many in Mexico risk their lives to come to the U.S. hoping that they can find work. They go through parts of Mexico that are considered to have the most violence with drugs, cartels and trafficking are then most often caught by the cartels and have no other choice but to be a slave working to pay off their “debt” that they have to the cartels. Also the traffickers use everything because the victims are vulnerable, to control the victims often the victims are being belittled by their traffickers, many people that suffered sometimes tell...
Trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation and provision of a person for the purpose of commercial sex. American trafficking victims are estimated to be between 100,000 and 300,000. Most of these are from the million are so children that are thrown out of their home or they have run away usually to escape abuse and/or sexual violence. (Shelley, pg. 230) The law says that a person under the age of 18 has to have been defrauded, forced or coerced into the sex trade against their will. Sex trafficking venues are wide and vast. Victims of sex trafficking can be found in brothels, strip clubs, esc...
An estimated 20.9 million people are currently being trafficked worldwide (The Polaris Project, 2014). According to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA, reauthorized in 2013), sex trafficking is defined as, “A commercial sex act induced by force, fraud, or coercion, and/or in which the person induced to...
Summary: We see that there are many different aspects and types of human trafficking that everyone should be made aware of. As a whole human trafficking is a lucrative industry raking in $150 BILLION globally. The impact that this industry has on its victims is
Sex trafficking involves in death, rape, torture of women or using them as slaves. Women and children are usually manipulated into sex or human trafficking. They can be talked into doing so or promised things (money and power). Some are used to obtain ransom from their family. The targeted families that are usually asked for ransom are lower class families who do not have much, meaning that the women (or child) would have to “work” to pay off her debt. The women who end up “working” for their kidnappers have to have certain qualities. These women are trafficked without their
Human trafficking is a problem and may be addressed as a form of slavery. It chooses no preference, old, young, woman, child or male. All are vulnerable to its cruel and unkind hand. Human trafficking has been here since the dawn of time even dating back to biblical times and as history shows its destruction in the divisions of whole ethnicities and countries. This matter not only affects 3rd world countries but it affects all, both the healthy and the rich. For instance, the Bush Administration was mostly affected by the trafficking of women as sexual slaves sold to all parts of the world. Human trafficking is just a modern way of calling it slavery.
Sexual trafficking is a 32 billion dollar industry and one of the fastest growing crimes in the world. Sex trafficking occurs when someone uses force or coercion to cause a human being to commit a sexual act. Girls, women, boys, and men are all victims to sexual trafficking, although women and children are the most common to be victims of this crime.
Sex trafficking is a form of contemporary slavery that induces and forces people into a commercial sex trade against their will. Many factors contribute to the sex trade and the exploitation occurs mostly to women and children. Through the age, gender, class, and race many are trapped in a never-ending cycle of coercion and abuse in order to survive in the corrupt society around them.
The effect that trafficking has on their victims is the same effect that people have when they were raped, sexually harassed, etc. People who were trafficked tend to suffer from serious health problems including physical health, reproductive health and mental health problems. Mostly women but men too tend to go into physical exhaustion and become victims of unwanted touching, grabbing, oral sex, anal sex, etc. Mental wise the victim might have many emotional effects, severe stress and depression.
As a consequence, when the sex trafficking victim is caught, they may be incarcerated and accused of criminal activity, for example of prostitution. However, this charge is not really a big concern, given the long lasting physical and psychological trauma that impinges on the victim for the rest of their life. They are also more at risk of having contracted an STI, due to numerous forced sexual encounters, and therefore may suffer having a disease such as HIV or AIDS for the rest of their life, affecting their overall wellbeing and quality of life. A lot of people who have had such psychological trauma put on them, often turn mentally ill, or even turn to drugs to mask the memories and pain of the past, which in turn having devastating consequences such as homelessness and death that could sadly
Trafficking is defined as “The recruitment of people that involves the use of forced and fraud to maintain labor (Chisolm-Straker)”. Human trafficking is an unseen crime as victims scarcely come forward to seek help. The purpose of exploitation of prostitution and other sexual things. Hundreds of thousands of victims are trafficked for their own personals needs. Seeing that trafficking is generally a crime that is hidden in plain sight, Trafficking can happen anywhere, as long as the environment contains vulnerable conditions. sex trafficking victims face dramatic thing.trafficking victims can be u.s. Citizens, foreign
Globalization creates populations that become vulnerable to sex trafficking around the world. In order to truly understand the causes of sex trafficking, one must look at the lager issues at hand rather than trying to blame an individual or small group of people. One of the larger concepts includes globalization and one of the key features of it is migration (Unit 3 Lecture, 2018). Migration tends to occur when there are several existing push/ pull factors. “Globalization worsens poverty, which leaves more people vulnerable to contemporary form of slavery, such as child labor…” (Davy, 2013). Which leaves several push factors creating motivation to migrate to various countries. Once the migration occurs, women are forced to look for work and are often times left with little to no options because of their lack of