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Human and Sex Trafficking By Jasmine Basile ====Human and sex trafficking is not your average dinner table topic. Families believe that something like this could never happen to them. Well it can. Beautiful women get drawn into the world of sex trafficking every day. Human and sex trafficking is a global/national problem because people all over the world are affected. ====

__Background Information: __
====Its hard to think that women can get into this sort of business on their own. Most women are kidnapped or convinced of marriage, work as nannies, models, waitresses, or exotic dancers. It is common to think that women and girls are the only ones abducted to trafficking, but men and young boys are also the victims ("Human and Sex Trafficking"). To some, sex trafficking is their business. It is all they live and breath. There are some 200,000 sex slaves worldwide bringing their slaveholders an annual profit of $10.5 billion (Leuchtag 1). ====

__The United States Fights Trafficking: __
====Sex trafficking tends to be a European thing. Wrong! Trafficking happens all over the world, including the United States. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) establishes harsh penalties for human trafficking and provides a resolution for the victims ("Human and Sex Trafficking"). Prior to TVPA, the trafficking victims were treated as criminals and forced into deportation. They are now allowed to remain in the United States if they are assisting in the investigation or prosecution of traffickers and they are then allowed to apply for a permanent residency ("Human and Sex Trafficking"). ====

__Global Problem: __
====There has not yet been a written international law against trafficking. There was an aruguement in 1999 and 2000 between multiple European countries about the real definition of trafficking. They wanted to make sure there was a signifigant difference between trafficking and prostitution. They argued the separation between those who were being forced and those who gave their consent (Leuchtag 4). The protocol defines trafficking as: "The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerabilty or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation" (Leuchtag 5). ====

__My Point of View: __
Sex trafficking is a serious topic and should not be joked around with. This problem can't be solved with therapy or rehab, this is a conflict that is world wide and most people don't know how to handle it. While the U.S is attempting to make change, other countries think its just an old tradition. This tradition needs to end now. Peoples lives are on the line and mothers and fathers think its alright to sell their own children. I believe that more laws and more punishments need to be made about the situation.



Wanna know more? Check out these websites! -Think this never happened in the past? Think again... [] -Think this won't happen to you? Think again... [] -Think you don't have rights? Think again... [] -Think you know the "Happy Hooker"? Think again... [] -Think women and girls like being sex slaves? Think again... [] Works Cited "Human Trafficking and Slavery." 2010, 14th ed., sec. 12: 1-10. //CQ Researcher//. Web. 8 Feb. 2010.. Kibble, Kumar C. "Human Trafficking." //ELibrary//. Mar. 2009. Web. 8 Feb. 2010. . Leuchtag, Alice. "Human Rights: Sex Trafficking and Prostitution." //SIRS//. Jan. & feb. 2003. Web. 8 Feb. 2010. .