Through out this quarter we were
assigned a project named ‘You and the world’. You and the world is a research
project that has us teenagers connect with more than just our daily issues. With world issues we choose these world issues and than explore the topic
keeping in mind what we learned, and what we would like to learn more about.
The second largest criminal
activity goes to human trafficking. Human trafficking is an act of transporting
humans especially women and children through use of force for sexual
exploitation. According to UNODC
human trafficking is all around the world, all countries in the world is
affected by trafficking. About 80% of human trafficking involves Sexual
exploitation, and 19% involves labor exploitation. I became interested in
researching human trafficking when I first the movie ‘Human Trafficking’. While watching the movie it was the first I heard of human trafficking
and I wanted to learn more about the topic. I wanted to learn how much of the
world is affected by it and what is being done to stop Human trafficking.
Through my research I have
discovered that there are 8 main topics on the causes of trafficking:
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Drug and alcohol abuse
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Expansion of organized crime
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Illiteracy and lack of education
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Lack of political will to end the practice
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Corruption
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Poverty and unemployment
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Low status of girls in many countries
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Inadequate or non-enforced laws
I also have discovered that are
different forms of exploitation:
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Forcing victims into prostitution
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Subjecting victims to slavery or involuntary
servitude
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Compelling victims to commit sex acts for the
purpose of creating pornography
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Misleading victims into dept bondage
I wonder what are all these
countries doing to stop human trafficking or if some of the countries are doing
anything at all. Do traffickers let their victims free or do they kill them?
Through out this learning
experience I would like to go into depth with Human Trafficking in the U.S.
What is the U.S doing to prevent Human Trafficking and how much of the U.S is
affected by trafficking.
Learn more from these websites:
http://www.humantrafficking.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking#United_States
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-human-trafficking.html
http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-human-trafficking