The Reality of Human Trafficking

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Since the mid 1990’s there has been an alarming upsurge within the human trafficking community. In the country of Bangladesh, women and young girls are sold into the trafficking industry by ones close to them. The price of their life is looked upon as a way to pay off debt or simply because their families are incapable of raising them. You rarely hear about Bangladeshi boys being sold because in their country a boy is seen as more valuable than a girl. According to a documentary directed by Michael Glawogger, attempts to prevent this from occurring because “[t]he outside world pushes us out of the way to make room. Those people are our clients” (Whores Glory). Society knows that these girls are better off living in a brothel, a house where men can visit prostitutes, than on the street. Bangladeshi laws go unenforced and trafficked victims are unprotected; whatever happens behind closed doors stays behind closed. Within the brothel the new girl is assigned to a madam, which acts like a pimp. Due to the governments low measures of protection families are able to sell their female members to traffickers who then sell them to a brothel, a house where men can visit prostitutes. The Bangladeshi government fails to have an organized system that can protect trafficked victims because they are clueless on how to identify current victims; “In a country where less than 10 percent of children are registered at birth, it is difficult to track whether children’s rights are being protected” (UNICEF). The most ironic thing about the government’s incapability to identify current victims is a sham since government officials participate in receiving pleasure from these victims instead of trying to help them.

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