Wednesday, December 2, 2009

What is Human trafficking? What goes on?

Human Trafficking is the involuntary movement of people across and within borders and typically involves coercion, deception, and violence.

- from article Global crime case: the modern slave trade.



Boyfriends, Family, crimals, and local pimps can be the one to run and take the people who become victims of Human Trafficking. The victims are bought sold and taken across boarders and taken to different countries. The victim is deprived of food, have basic rights taken away. The people who own them get them hooked on drugs, and threaten the victim into doing what they want them to do (i.e. prostution) and the victims life is intensly shortened. The men who take the people trade people the same way they would trade drugs, and guns. Behind guns, and drugs human trafficking is one of the most illict global trade and fastest growing. Sex trafficking can be found all over china, cambodia, thailand, russia, Philippines, colombia, Japan, Italy, European Union, and the US. south East Asia is known as the sex hot spot because it has the most sex slaves.

Human Trafficking generates:
US $7 billion - 10 billlion
China $ 3 billion - 8 billion
Mexico $ 6 Billion - 9 billion