Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking is defined as a series of crime and a grave violation of human rights. It is a process of trapping people through the use of violence deception or coercion and exploiting them for financial or personal gain. 

Slavery had existed for many years before 1200 and is a common form of everyday life worldwide. Human trafficking was first legally recognized by the term "White Slavery" in the form of sexual harassment in which a woman or a girl by the use of force, drugs, or dishonesty for sex which is unwanted by a woman or girl. 

Human trafficking is done for exploitation, which includes exploiting, men tricked into accepting risky job offers, and trapped in forced labor in building sites, farms, or factories. Women were recruited to work in private homes only to be trapped, exploited, and abused behind closed doors with no way out. 

There are three most common types of Human Trafficking are. 

Labor Trafficking – In this individuals are forced to work every single day for lower wages or even without pay, under the threat of violence and they are unable to walk away. 

Sex Trafficking – It occurs when someone uses forces and fraud to cause a commercial sex act. It is a crime where women and girls are sexually harassed by the traffickers. 

Organs Harvesting – Another recent and highly controversial occurrence involving human trafficking is the deception that results in the involuntary removal of bodily organs for transplant. 

Slavery and trafficking happen in nearly every country in the world, whether it will be a developing country or a developed. We are now living in a world where human trafficking is the fastest growing crime and it is the third-largest international crime in the world. Every year almost thousands of men women and children fall into the hands of traffickers, in their own country and abroad. Every country in the world is affected by this crime. 

People trapped by traffickers are mostly trying to escape poverty or discrimination to improve their lives and to support their families. People are forced to take unimaginable risks to try and escape from poverty, accepting dangerous or precarious job offers and they often give money to the victims in advance. When they arrive they find that the work does not exist or the situations and conditions are completely different. Their documents are often taken away and they are forced to work until their debt is paid off and they are finally trapped. 

Children are often sold or sent to areas with the promise of a better life but instead of this, they encounter various forms of exploitation. Domestic servitude places extra children from excessively large families into domestic services for an extended period of slavery. 

Other trafficked children are often forced to work in small scale cottage industries, manufacturing factories, the entertainment, and sex industries. Trafficking victims are frequently required to work for an excessive period under extremely hazardous working conditions and little or no wages. 

Sometimes they become street children and are used for prostitution, theft, begging, or the drug trade. Traffickers use blackmail, abuse, and threats to force victims to comply with their wishes in the destination country and they use multiple means to control their victims like beating, burning, rape and starvation, psychological abuse, document holding, they make victims depend on them for drugs and alcohol. 

Victims of trafficking are deeply traumatized by their experience particularly in the situation of sexual exploitation. They became distrustful and fearful of authorities which may affect their ability to seek help and support or to engage with police. 

It is the form of modern-day slavery. Trafficking in human beings is a shameful and abhorrent violation of human rights. Stand against human trafficking before it's too late.