Historical Background
This is a worldwide problem. Every state, country, and nation is involved such as China, Brazil, Bangladesh, Haiti, Pakistan, Mauritania, Ghana, Uganda, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Human trafficking affects women, children, and men. Just the thought of prostitution send shivers down my spine. Girls as young as 13 years old are forced into sex labor. Once she is in the trafficking world, there is a very slight chance of her ever getting out. In fact, that goes for anyone in the trafficking world. The extent that traffickers take to traffic their victims is absolutely appalling.
Human trafficking is continuously growing and getting stronger. it is the second largest organized crime in the world. Unfortunately, the majority of those who have been enslaved to human trafficking, are in the sex industry while the minority, but still huge amount, is in the physical labor industry. Many of these victims have been mistreated, are stowaways, or teenagers who have run away from home. One thing that lays common among them is that they're all normally in need of money. People tend to get drawn into human trafficking because they're promised something or they're threatened. The common sex slave will work on average 18-20 hours a day and earn her "pimp" up to $250 thousand dollars a year. The sex industry of human trafficking can bring upwards of $32 billion dollars a year and slavery as a whole brings in on average $150 billion dollars a year. The most sickening part of human trafficking is the age at which they may start being trafficked. Little girls as young as 12 years old can be forced into everyday prostitution to start earning her "pimp" what he demands and after everything that they do, they may get coins, if that, in order to just barely feed themselves. The life expectancy for these victims are only about 7 years and by then, they've been trafficking around 6,000 times. The beginning of this horrific slavery was around the beginning of the 1900's. However, as I said before, human trafficking is currently growing at an uncontrollable pace. Even though many countries have created laws against such a thing, their enforcement isn't too great. Human trafficking still tends to find its way to fly under the radar and at such a low risk. Sex and labor is desired in every nation on this earth and those are the very things that human trafficking provides. |
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