Human Trafficking Research Paper

Women and children usually take part in prostitution, a special type of human trafficking. The traffickers make money every time a victimized woman or child have sexual intercourse with a customer. Both customers and “employers” physically beat, threaten, or drug these victims to keep them.
The most obvious type of human trafficking children suffer as victims from proves as child labor. Young, defenseless, unaware children easily get sucked into child labor, making this a special category with special protections by law enforcement agencies worldwide. Some children in Afghanistan work in fields all day to pick poppies which are later made into opium or heroin. Other children in different countries begin training for war and start killing …show more content…
Around eight hundred thousand people become enslave and or transported into another country every year. According to the International Labor Organization over 20.9 million people become victims of human trafficking globally and also estimate that trafficking estimates around a $150 billion dollar industry. Two popular primary factors of human trafficking: high profits and low risk. The National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline receives multiple calls about potential trafficking cases daily. From December 7, 2007, through December 31, 2012, the NHTRC answered 65,557 calls, 1,735 online tips, and 5,251 emails totaling to more than 72,000 interactions throughout the first five years of the program's operation, receiving a 259% increase in calls and forms of communication. (Polaris, human trafficking trends) "There is no official estimate of the total number of human trafficking victims in the U.S. With 100,000 children estimated to be in the sex trade in the United States each year, it is clear that the total number of victims national reaches into the hundreds of thousands when estimates of both adults and minors and sex trafficking and labor trafficking are aggravated." …show more content…
Even if victims are lucky enough to escape and make it back to their home country alive, they might be too ashamed to tell anyone in their family or community what has happened to them so nothing is ever done to the traffickers. Typically, if a victim or their family member recognize a trafficker out he or she might acknowledge that they know about what the trafficker does but word will not spread nor will they get recognized by any government officials, that aren’t paid off already. (Hart.

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