Human trafficking

Human Trafficking

Introduction

Human trafficking is a very old phenomenon that existed in past two decades, as well. It is one of the most serious issues of our time. Sexual exploitation, forced labor, debt bondage, child labor, domestic slavery, begging, forced use of people in the armed groups, trafficking in persons for organ and tissue transplantation all these are monstrous forms of the same crime. Victims of trafficking may be men, women and children, but in most cases, victims are young women and girls who are sexually exploited. Among the main reasons for pushing women into situations of trafficking, experts say poverty and inequality between the sexes, the obstacles to education, employment and gaining confidence in the future.

Human trafficking is the third most lucrative business for organized crime worldwide. While the trafficking of any human being is totally inhuman, there is nothing more destructive than the trading of children. By abolishing the potential of a child's life, the very future of the country in which that child belongs to, becomes miserable. Nations with great intensity of child slavery are compromising their next generation of leaders in business, government, the arts, education and every other area of productive society.

Causes and Consequences of Human Trafficking

The first cause is, no doubt, poverty, lack of opportunity, lack of employment or better employment opportunities. These are the engines that drive the victims potential to seek an alternative lifestyle. When recruitment is through deception, the person listening to the recruiter's offer may be someone who had decided to migrate, or for whom migration (domestic or international) was within the range of practical strategies. The level of education influences, but has gray areas, as evidenced by the cases of women from the ex- Soviet victims of trafficking, despite the high levels education cannot distinguish deception, often for the lack of information for what we call "informed migration". While we talk about trafficking in persons (men, women, boys and girls) majority of women are trafficked for sexual exploitation. This is associated with the role of women in a patriarchal society, and overt or covert sexism that accepts and promotes the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation, since if there would be no demand (sex by men) there would be no supply (of women).

The market for services will be provided by trafficking that are sexual services, cheap labor, forced labor, and so on. Potential migrants forced to seek other forms of income, which are that generally offer recruiters and traffickers increase in irregular migration, national security issues related with the lack of border controls, problems of xenophobia and the stigmatization foreigners (either for prostitution or because they compete in the labor market), the corruption of officials to ensure that trafficking is not repressed nor organizations of traffickers disrupted. This means that no violation of national laws in all countries concerned the immigration law, labor law, and legislation protecting the rights of humans. Consequences for victims obviously, what we can point under this heading is but a pale approach to the ...