Human Trafficking Policy

Human Trafficking Policy

Introduction

Human Trafficking is one of the biggest crimes against the whole of mankind. It includes actions relating to or of transporting, recruiting, receiving and harboring person or persons by using any means of coercion or force for the ultimate purpose of exploitation. Human trafficking, also known as modern-day slavery or in person trafficking, is a criminal act and a violation of basic human rights. The violations include activities like right to freedom, right to dignity, right to equal protection of the law that affects every country in the world (Bales, 2010).

Human trafficking could be either by forceful abduction or deceitful abduction i.e. against their will; millions of people around the world are forced, defrauded, coerced, and abused of power or a failing position because of which a person is compelled to work for the profit of others. On a yearly basis thousands upon thousands of people including children and especially women are thereby abused by the human traffickers either in their home countries or in foreign countries (Bales, 2010). Unfortunately there is no country in the whole which is free of this disease. The UN has UNODC Department, which is trying to prevent human trafficking worldwide; similarly, America as well has many policies in place for stopping human trafficking (United Nations Office, 2012).

Discussion

According to the 3rd Article, Para. (a), trafficking in people defined as the transportation, recruitment, receipt, harboring or transfer of person or persons by the use of threats, coercion, force or other methods of fraud, abduction, abuse of power, deception over a vulnerable individual; or receiving or giving benefits and or payment for the right of maintaining a control over a person or persons, for the end goal of exploitation. The term exploitation includes at least, exploiting people for prostitution or other sexual exploitation purpose, forced services or labor, slavery or similar practices, servitude or last but not the least, organ removal. The past has shown the U.S to be one of the chief markets as destination or transit point for the people dealing in human trafficking. According to the estimates, around 17,500 to 14,500 people, chiefly, children and women are trafficked to the States on a yearly basis. America's Government is very strongly opposed to this heinous practice and is taking strong measure to end human trafficking both at home and in foreign countries (Mercier, 2012).

The Department of State of the U.S started to monitor the trafficking of the people from 1994, when the problem became highlighted by the Department's Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Initially it was highlighted because of the trafficking of girls and women for the purpose of sexual exploitation. The contents of the reports have widened over time and the embassies all over the world now make reports and monitor the cases of human trafficking regardless of whether its' male, female or children for all purposes of forced labor, including domestic service, agriculture, sweatshops, construction work and the trafficking purpose for sexual ...