Human Trafficking

Introduction
Freedom is a short, yet powerful word we taken for granted every day. Its
hard to fully understand the real meaning of freedom when we have never
had it snatched away from us. We get to choose our job, where we live, what
we eat, our life partner etc. etc.
Unfortunately, everyone in this world is not as lucky as us. They live majority
of their lives without ever experiencing the freedom due to modern day
slavery. Enormous people including men, women and children too are being
kidnapped, virulently mistreated and sometimes even murdered all to
facilitate cheap or free labor, organ harvesting and sexual pleasure. Its
happening right here, right now, in countries all over the world including the
1st row countries.

Meaning of human trafficking

Human trafficking is the modern age of slavery. Human trafficking doesnt
discriminate age, sex, race, gender or religion. It involves controlling a
person through force, fear, fraud or coercion to exploit the victim for forced
or cheap labor, sexual exploitation or both. Sometimes trafficking is done for
organ harvesting. Human trafficking snatches the freedom from the victims
and violates our national promise that every person in India is guaranteed
basic human rights. The victims of human trafficking are often separated
from their families.

Nature of human trafficking

Human trafficking is one of the many serious problems worldwide. It is the
second largest criminal enterprise in the world after drug smuggling and
dealing. Human trafficking is done in all countries all over the world. Men,
women and children are trafficked illegally for the purpose of cheap and
forced or free labor, prostitution or force marriage, sex slavery, organ trade
and sometimes for extortion.
Forced or free labor and cheap labor: Labor trafficking is a kind of
trafficking in which individuals perform labor or services through use of force,
fraud or coercion. Labor trafficking includes situation of debt bondage, forced
labor, involuntary child labor. Labor traffickers use violence, threats, lies,
and other form of coercion to force people to work against their will. Labor
trafficking is the exploitation of people within national or across international
borders. Common types of labor trafficking include people forced to work in

homes as domestic servants, farmworkers, factory workers held in inhuman

conditions with little or no pay. Child labors are used for begging and slavery
in many places.
Sex trafficking and women trafficking: Sex trafficking is an act of
forcing, coercing, or transporting a person for the purpose of commercial sex.
These crimes are primarily committed against women and children. Sex
trafficking can occur in residential brothels, invisible brothels like massage
parlors, strip clubs and via online escort services and street prostitution.
Women are also trafficked for force marriage and sex slavery and surrogacy.
Every year, an estimated 800,000 women and children are trafficked across
the international border though additional numbers of women and girls are
trafficked within country. Little number men and boys are also trafficked into
the sex industry.
Organ trade: Human has sent the rover in the Mars with the advancements
of science yet we couldnt produce human organs in factory. So, organs can
be gotten from the human body only. Every year millions of people die due to
organ failure. So, organ trade has become a very profitable business to the
traffickers. Trafficking of organs is a crime that occurs in three broad
categories. Firstly, there are cases where traffickers force or deceive the
victims into giving up an organ. Secondly, there are cases where victims
formally or informally agree to sell their and are cheated because they are
not paid for the organ or are paid less than the promised price. Thirdly,
organs are removed from the victims body without the victims knowledge.
The third kind of organ trafficking happen to the migrant workers, homeless
persons or illiterate persons.

How trafficking is done?

Human trafficking does not discriminate race, age, sex, or religion. Anyone
can be a victim. Basically, the victims of the traffickers come from
undeveloped countries where people suffer from poverty, non-education,
unemployment. Traffickers lure the victims in the name of good job, good
money and better life. Sometimes they give credit in the name of help. When
the debtors cant repay the lent money they are forced to serve. Kidnapping
is also done for trafficking.
In India the majority of victims of trafficking come from the rural areas. As a
highly populated nation the majority of Indians suffer from poverty, illiteracy,
unemployment. So, they are very easy to trap. Human traffickers take this
chance and use them as they want. They very often offer good jobs to the
unemployed people. They ask them to come at an unknown place and then
kidnap them. Traffickers use the old candidates to recruit the new

candidates. Some traffickers offer the victims good money. The victims
serve for the traffickers to get the amount. Though we dont say it trafficking
but it violets human rights.
Victims who are undocumented immigrants often do not report abuses to the
authorities out of distrust of law enforcement, and/or fear of arrest, injury to
family members, deportation, or other serious reprisals. Many domestic
victims of sex trafficking are underage runways and/or come from
backgrounds of sexual and physical abuse, incest, poverty or addiction.
Traffickers often blackmail the victims (basically sex traffickers blackmail
women) and force to work them how long it is possible. Sometimes the
victims are killed before reporting the administration or others.

Potential traffickers

Organized gangs and crime groups

Established trafficking network agents
Narcotic and drug peddlers
Arm/weapon smugglers
Impresarios
Local recruiters
Transporters, taxi drivers
Corrupt officials (e.g. police, customs, immigration, border patrollers)
Village headmen and members
National & foreign tourists
Travel agents
Employment agents
Brothel/bar madams
Gharwalis/brothel owners & pimps
Pedophiles
Entertainment promoters
Clients of red light districts
Own friends & relatives

Case studies
I heard a news when earth quake happened in Nepal. After the earth quake
the Nepal had become hell. Then some traffickers went there in the name of
helping victims. They trafficked many women and children.
Few days back a report was published on the newspaper. The story was on
an Uzbekistan girl who was forced for prostitution. She belonged to a poor
family. The traffickers promised her that she would be appointed in a

domestic job. She came to India and her passport was snatched by the
traffickers and forced her for prostitution. She tried to flee many times but at
last she was killed.
Nowadays ISIS is the biggest threat to the world. They are also trafficking
women and children. They sell them in open market but no one is there to
rescue them.
We all are aware of the present situation of Greece. Greece is suffering from
the economic inflation. The economic structure has broken down. Girls
between 17-20 years old are ready to sex for a sandwich only. So, the world
is fearing that Greece will become the heaven to the traffickers.

Some must know information about

human trafficking

Today, slaves are cheaper than they have ever been in history. The
population explosion has created a great supply of workers, and
globalization has created people who are vulnerable and easily
enslaved.

According to the U.S. State Department, human trafficking is one of the

greatest human rights challenges of this century, both in the United
States and around the world.
Over 71% of trafficked children show suicidal tendencies.
Approximately 70-80% trafficking is done for sex. Researchers found
that sex trafficking plays an important role in spreading HIV.
In approximately 54% of human trafficking cases, the recruiter is a
stranger, and in 46% of the cases, the recruiters know the victim. Fiftytwo percent of human trafficking recruiters are men, 42% are women,
and 6% are both men and women.
Victims of human trafficking suffer devastating physical and
psychological harm. However, due to language barriers, lack of
knowledge about available services, and the frequency with which
traffickers move victims, human trafficking victims and their
perpetrators are difficult to catch.
Human traffickers often work with corrupt government officials to
obtain travel documents and seize passports.
Japan is considered the largest market for Asian women trafficked for
sex.
Sex traffickers often recruit children because not only are children
more unsuspecting and vulnerable than adults, but there is also a high
market demand for young victims. Traffickers target victims on the

telephone, on the Internet, through friends, at the mall, and in afterschool programs.
Nearly 7,000 Nepali girls as young as nine years old are sold every
year into Indias red-light districtor 200,000 in the last decade. Ten
thousand children between the ages of six and 14 are in Sri Lanka
brothels.

How to fight against human trafficking?

Human trafficking is shame to our modern society. After learning about
human trafficking many people want to help in some ways but dont know
how they can help them. Here are some ideas for you.

Incorporate human trafficking information into your professional

associations conferences, trainings, manuals, and other materials as
relevant
Join or start a grassroots anti-trafficking coalition.
Meet with and/or write to your local, state, and federal government
representatives to let them know that you care about combating
human trafficking in your community, and ask what they are doing to
address human trafficking in your area.
Distribute public awareness materials available from the Department
of Health and Human Services or Department of Homeland Security.
Volunteer to do victim outreach or offer your professional services to a
local anti-trafficking organization.
Donate funds or needed items to an anti-trafficking organization in
your area.
Organize a fundraiser and donate the proceeds to an anti-trafficking
organization.
Host an awareness event to watch and discuss a recent human
trafficking documentary. On a larger scale, host a human trafficking
film festival.
Encourage your local schools to partner with students and include the
issue of modern day slavery in their curriculum. As a parent, educator,
or school administrator, be aware of how traffickers target school-aged
children.
Write a letter to the editor of your local paper about human trafficking
in your community.
Start or sign a human trafficking petition.
Businesses: Provide internships, job skills training, and/or jobs to
trafficking survivors. Consumers: Purchase items made by trafficking
survivors such as from Jewel Girls or Made by Survivors.

Students: Take action on your campus. Join or establish a university or

secondary school club to raise awareness about human trafficking and
initiate action throughout your local community. Consider doing one of
your research papers on a topic concerning human trafficking.
Professors: Request that human trafficking be an issue included in
university curriculum. Increase scholarship about human trafficking by
publishing an article, teaching a class, or hosting a symposium.
Law Enforcement Officials: Join or start a local human trafficking task
force.
Mental Health or Medical Providers: Extend low-cost or free services to
human trafficking victims assisted by nearby anti-trafficking
organizations. Train your staff on how to identify the indicators of
human trafficking and assist victims.
Attorneys: Look for signs of human trafficking among your clients. Offer
pro-bono services to trafficking victims or anti-trafficking organizations.
Learn about and offer to human trafficking victims the legal benefits for
which they are eligible. Assist anti-trafficking NGOs with capacity
building and legal work.

Under the Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act (ITPA) trafficking for commercial
sexual exploitation is penalized. The punishment ranges from seven years to
life imprisonment. The Bonded Labor Abolition Act, the Child Labor Act, and
the Juvenile Justice Act prohibit the bonded and forced labor in India.
Because of the brutal gang rape of December 2012, government has passed
a bill in which laws related to sexual violence and making sex trafficking
have been amended. But still there is a huge gap between enactment and
enforcement of these laws. Because of widespread corruption and bride, it is
easy for agents for bring these young boys and girls for their profit. But there
should be strict disciplinary action against everybody involved in such a
crime then only this problem can be addressed.
Also better education and other facilities should be provided at native places
so that parents do not opt these ways for their kids. Above all attitude
towards women and young girls must change.

Conclusion
It is told that human are social species. As a human being we all have some
responsibilities. Human trafficking is a shame to our modern society. We
should take care of the others. We should extend our helping hands to the
helpless. Government has to be more careful and administration has to be
more dutiful to the society. We know that many corrupted leaders and
officers are attached to the human trafficking. The administration has to find

out those corrupted and powerful people and punish them. They have to
assure the basic fundamental rights for everyone. At the end of all to
eliminate trafficking we have to eliminate the discrimination among us. If
there will no discrimination, there will no slavery.