Modern Day Human Trafficking

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Modern day slavery .A looks at human trafficking.
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The trafficking of human beings has attracted considerable public and political concern in recent years. It is commonly understood to involve a variety of crimes and abuses associated with the movement and sale of people (including body into a range of exploitative conditions around the world (Lee, 2007). Human trafficking has associated with transnational organized crime groups, small, more loosely organized criminal networks and local gangs, violations of labor and immigration laws and government corruption (Richard, 1999: US Government Accountability Office, 2006: Vayrynen, 2003).Yet trafficking is nothing new. Trafficking and smuggling has been described as a diverse form of
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Moreover, accountability at the international level the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, which was adopted by UN General Assembly resolution 55/25, is the primary legal instrument used to combat transnational organized crime. The Convention is supplemented by three Protocols, each of which focuses on specific types of organized crime and are as follows: the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children; the Protocol against the Smuggling Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, and the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, their Parts components and Ammunition (Burke, …show more content…
In bonded labor, a victim borrows money from someone .This victim does not know that the person he has borrowed money from is dishonest. The deal that this victim thinks he is agreeing to be that he can borrow money and then work until the debt is paid off. Although this person works hard for long periods of time, and he pays money to his boss, he is told that he still owes more money. No matter how long this victim works, he is never able to repay the money. The person who lent him the money keeps telling him that he needs to pay more (Hart, 2009). Because he still owes money, he is forced to work more and to work harder. Human traffickers use bonded labor to trick their victims. Their victims believe that one day they will be free. They think that if they work hard enough, they will be able to pay back their debt. Some of these people might not have any formal education. They might not know how to do math. They are forced to believe that they still owe money, even when they have really paid off their debt long ago. This form of bonded labor used to occur all over the world. Today, bonded labor is against the law in the United States, but there are some countries that still allow it, such as Nepal, India, and Pakistan