Human Trafficking Research Paper

The Fight for Freedom During the Civil War, countless people joined in the fight to end slavery. Thanks to those brave people, we now live in a country where everyone can have their God-given rights. However, there still is a form of slavery that sadly stands out in our nation. Every year, thousands of human trafficking cases are put on trial in court. Yet, many people do not know about this issue or do not care enough about it. According to the Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, human trafficking is defined as “the recruitment of people for commercial sexual exploitation (unfair use) or forced labor for little or no pay,” (“Human Trafficking”). Many people assume that this problem only occurs in third world countries. However, human …show more content…
Some people wrongly assume that human trafficking only occurs in impoverished countries. However, human trafficking is even a problem in our own society, and according to the Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, “it affects almost every country in the world” (“Human Trafficking”). Vanessa Bouche wrote an article about sex trafficking; she has been researching about human trafficking for almost two decades. In this particular article, she collected data from more than 900 federal prosecutions of sex trafficking in the United States, so this shows there are countless cases of trafficking even our own country (Bouche). Sex trafficking is definitely the most noticeable form of human trafficking, especially in the United States. There is an abundance of women and girls that are sold into this slavery business in our country, and Bouche writes in her article that “99% of the victims are females, while the traffickers and buyers are mostly male,” (Bouche). This piece of evidence mentioned in this quote proves that many traffickers are buying and selling women and girls for sex trafficking and exploitation. I believe that this topic is not being talked about enough in today’s news. Human trafficking is a serious problem that should not be …show more content…
The poor victims are forced to lose their human dignity because “men are buying and selling women and girls as commodities, objects and instruments for their profit and pleasure,” (Bouche). This quote says how the traffickers consider the victims as items that can be purchased, rather than human beings with emotions and a family. “Although some sex or labor trafficking victims are brought from other countries, about 80 percent are U.S. citizens,” (Nelson). Victims can be from other countries, but there are also human trafficking victims that come from the United States (Nelson). “The girls that we see that become our adult trafficking victims start out as minor trafficking victims. They had a crappy home life, and they're out there looking for someone to make it better," (Nelson). These people have grown up with a miserable home life. They are looking for opportunities, and “social conditions as poverty, unemployment, and lack of opportunity can also make people vulnerable to trafficking,” (“Human Trafficking”). Sadly, these are the types of people that human traffickers prey on. They do not tell the victims the whole truth, and they are able to recruit the victims to work for them. Then, once they get into the slavery business, it is difficult to get out. No one deserves to be enslaved, so more should be done to help the people that have become

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