According to humantrafficking.org, human trafficking is the third largest and fastest growing illegal business in the world with $32 billion; victims are currently more than 27 million. Most of those victims are women (80%) and about (50%) are minors.
There are three different types of human trafficking which are bonded labor, child trafficking, and sex trafficking. First, bonded labor which is a kind of debt slavery created in a case of a person starts working for another person that have a debt from that working person. It begins when a person goes to another one to borrow some money and have to work for that other person who lent him/her money. Second, child trafficking is holding about 6 million children around the globe. Some children are working as a child soldiers and others forced for child sex trafficking. In Africa only, there are about 120,000 children who are forced to be child soldiers, and there are about 300,000 children around the world. Third, sex trafficking is the most common type of human trafficking, and the U.S. is the second largest for sex industry after Germany. Sex trafficking can make high profits, large demand, and growing AIDS epidemic.
There are many causes to this problem, human trafficking in general; for example, from an economic view, those people are the poorest individuals in the world because they don’t even own themselves. Today, $100 is the cost of a person which makes it easy for bad people to trafficking humans while in 1850 it was $40,000. From cultural view, high demand for cheap goods is something that bad people use to own salves. There are about 121 million primary school aged children who are not going to schools.
In my opinion, governments from all around the world should do something real, not just talks, to prevent that dark and evil business from becoming a big issue for those people to survive their lives. If it continues to grow more, it will be the first illegal business in the future, which might cause civil wars all around the world.
I agree that governments should do something to stop this brutality from expanding, but they seem unaware of the severity of this problem.
ReplyDeleteIn my point of view, the problem is the money or the wealth.
ReplyDeleteAll people behind all types of trafficking want money and wealth.
Nice summary Adbulaziz. "If it continues to grow more, it will be the first illegal business in the future, which might cause civil wars all around the world." How would it cause a civil war?
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