HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Human Trafficking



Human Trafficking

Introduction

Trafficking exists both, within each country and across borders, is the loss of freedom of choice and mobility of people, and can occur legally or illegally. Human trafficking is undoubtedly one of the most money-making transnational misdeeds today. According to Farr (2005), the sale of human beings believed to be commerce $ 7 to $ 12 billion and ranks third after the sale of pharmaceutical and weapons, as most businesses lucrative international and illegal (Tailby, 2001).

Thesis statement

Human Trafficking has a relationship with organized crime, and it is also modern day slavery.

Discussion

Although it is unclear whether immigrants are producing more crime in general than nationals, there is no doubt that migration and crime linked when organized smugglers of human beings come into play. Evil networks smuggling human beings are gaining increasing control of the flow of migrants across international borders. Up to 50 percent of illegal immigrants could now be trafficked by organized criminal syndicates, and these syndicates have become a global multibillion-dollar business. Trafficking out of China alone estimated, in 1995, as being worth US$3.5 billion (Kevin, 2009).

The number of people smuggled into States in the past few years could be as high as 500,000, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Freedom of movement without border controls inside “Schengenland” cited as an additional attraction for human traffickers. Still, illegal migrants as a rule are victims of criminal behavior rather than acting criminals. Organized crime has taken over the criminal market of trafficking in human beings. Most victims of human trafficking in States are women and girls trafficked for sexual exploitation (80%). It is true that prostitution serves as a focal point for organized criminal groups in many Statesan countries. Therefore, and in order to prevent trafficking in persons for sexual exploitation and to ensure that those who become victims of human trafficking get the help they need (Bales, 2005).

This modern form of slavery means that from this point of embarkation on the African coast come out the same merchant ships loaded with cargo containers that people who shackled instead of hands and feet tied with plastic strips, and on numerous occasions, to wear uniforms like those used in any prison in the world and that in many cases labeled. At sea, the slaves of today marketed if their destination was not given in advance, when they captured either in central Asia, southern Africa or the Middle East, armed militants are able to make entire populations in remote communities, cut off and disadvantaged in these regions. Human trafficking, also known as modern-day slavery or trafficking in persons, is a criminal act and a violation of basic human rights (example, right to freedom, right to dignity, right to equal protection of the law) that affects every country in the world (Beeks, 2006). Human trafficking is one of the few crimes that pursued from a victim's perspective, with a focus on prevention of trafficking, protection of victims, and prosecution of ...