Human Trafficking Research Paper

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Human trafficking is the illegal movement of people usually for the purposes of forced labor or sexual exploitation. Trafficking is an illegal trade of humans. It is a serious crime and violation of human rights. After illegal drug trade, it is second fastest increasing criminal industry in the world. Every year thousands of men and women are tricked or taken into trafficking in their own countries or sometimes taken out of their country. Almost every country is affected by trafficking all the time. Human traffickers recruit victims by finding people and recruiting them into an organization. Victims are taken out of their country and put into another so they’re unable to get away as easily because they don’t have the legal documents for the …show more content…
People that are helpless, defenseless, with no education, easy to be tricked, easily attacked or harmed are easy targets. People in poverty, or extremely poor, will do anything for money. One cause of this is being unemployed and they think trafficking is easy, fast money. Because of poverty, a lot of women are not educated and have no jobs so it leaves them with no other choice than to sell their bodies to provide for their families. Abused children are often another target for human traffickers. Children that have been abused do not have many people they trust, if any and they don’t know what type of treatment or lifestyle is acceptable and what isn’t. Children that don’t have a family or coming from a broken home are another easy target because they don’t have anyone so they will trust or want help from anyone that’s willing to give it to …show more content…
Victims believe that they are a part of the problem. They’re told they owe the trafficker money for transportation, food, etc. Another way they’re trapped is because they don’t have their forms of identity or legal documents anymore. The trafficker uses threats against the victim’s family of having them harmed or murdered, locking the victim up, and forced drug use if the victim tries to run away or tell anyone what the traffickers are doing to them. The victim has no control and most of they time they are too afraid to try and run away or