In the last trimester of 8th grade humanities, we as a class are focusing on a current, problematic issues that the world is facing today and discover a solution that the world could be benefited from. There were a list of issues and every and each one us voted for what they feel most strongly, which was Human Trafficking. Human trafficking is a global distress, which is also known as the modern day slavery. Human trafficking targets the people of minority and poverty. Through utilizing the people's devastating needs to have a stable income, the traffickers deceive them into becoming slave trapped forever by the law and the economy. Human Trafficking is a constantly growing illicit trade, generating seven to ten billion dollar annually worldwide. Although it is currently the third largest illegal trade in the world after the trade of arms and drugs, the professionals predicts that within a decade human trafficking can overtake the the trades of arms and drugs.
The Human Trafficking is haunting our global society by violating the rights that every human deserves. The victims are treated as slaves which they shouldn't deserve. The number of victims increases annually by 600,000 to 800,000. The people of the minority who do not understand how much they are worth are being deceived into being trafficked, causing eternal devastation for them with no development. They will always work, never realizing their rights and having chance to educate themselves. One fact I was the most unaware of and most shocked was that there are more percentage of women and children suffering from the human trafficking. At first, I perceived the human trafficking as an illegal way to hire people for labor, however it was broader and more disgusting than my presumption. In addition to the labor, human trafficking was industry of sexual exploitation as well. Through learning this information, I became more aware of the seriousness of the invisible part of human trafficking.
The human trafficking makes feel disgusted by the people's greed and what a person is capable of doing merely to earn money. I have found out that to have a stable and eternal profit, the traffickers take the workers' passports away from them so that there is no way they can escape from the foreign land. Furthermore, the traffickers deceive the people in poverty about the bright opportunities in the foreign land and makes them pay for providing such jobs, which causes chain of debts later on. Even to people who doesn't have knowledge on human rights, this should seem unspeakably evil, utilizing the advantage in knowledge to deceive people of minority. Moreover, the trafficked people often get abused by physically and mentally. Not only that, female workers are forced to work as prostitutes and gets raped. It is clear that the workers are not being treated as humans with equal rights but as animals and beasts. Most certainly, this uncivil, sick actions should be terminated immediately.
- How does learning about this issue make you feel and why?
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