Human Trafficking Term Paper

Human trafficking has become a common thing in the world today; I will start by defining what human trafficking is. Human trafficking is basically the trade of human beings.it involves trading of human beings for purposes such as sexual slavery, extracting of tissues and organs such as ova or for forced labor. Currently, human trafficking is quite an attractive and lucrative business estimated to close to 32 billion dollars in a year in terms of international trade. Despite the fact that human trafficking occurs at a local level it leads to international implications. There has always been confusion when it comes to human trafficking and smuggling. Human trafficking is different from the smuggling of people. With the smuggling of people an individual known as a smuggler is requested or voluntarily hired for the purpose of covertly transporting people from on area to another. This involves the transportation of people from one country to another where there could be otherwise the denial of legal entry at a border. Also unlike human trafficking there is no deception involved when the illegal agreement is being made. Once the smuggled person enters into...

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Human trafficking on the other hand is considered a crime against an individual since the victim rights are violated through exploitation and coercion. While smuggling there has to be travelling involved in human trafficking this is not necessary. Victims of human trafficking are not allowed to leave once they get to their destination. They are usually held against their will through acts such as forced work or coercion or give services to other people or the traffickers themselves. The services or work include sex exploitation which is commercialized to forced labor. There are also some arrangements structured as a work contract that has very low pay and a person might even end up without being paid anything at all. There are also other instances where the agreement involves debt bondage whereby a victim has…

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UNODC.( 2013 ). Human Trafficking. Retrieved November 4, 2013 from http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-human-trafficking.html

Hauser, A., & Castillo, M.(2013). A heavy toll for the victims of human trafficking. Retrieved November 4, 2013 from http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/25/us/miami-sex-trafficking/


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