Human Trafficking

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Human Trafficking: Abducted and Exploited
Human trafficking involves the process of trading in humans for forced labor, sexual slavery of the commercial exploitation of the traffickers or for other people (Kempadoo, Sanghera & Pattanaik, 2015). The process of trafficking human being has been declared a criminal activity since it’s an inhumane act where human beings are treated animals. Every year, many people from different parts of the world find themselves in the hands of the trafficking. The profitable venture to the people involved had reaped a worldwide profit of well over $40 billion, affecting more than 12 million people in the process by the year 2005 (Marinova & James, 2012). The illegal act occurs to people irrespective of their gender but mostly affects women and children who find themselves in the hands of traffickers in their own countries or in foreign countries. The menace has become so rampant leading to the adoption of the Trafficking Protocol by the United Nations in the year 2000 which came up with policies against the illegal recruitment, harboring and transfer of people to situations of torture and violent exploitation contrary to their will (Shelley, 2013).
Human trafficking occurs in different forms, forced labor, trafficking for sexual purposes and trafficking for organ use. Hepburn and Simon pointed out that the encyclopedic study of global trafficking, the worst form is forced labor, which is believed to be three times bigger than sex trafficking (Kempadoo, Sanghera & Pattanaik, 2015). It accounts for about two-thirds of all the cases of human trafficking. Thousands of people find their way into the United States each year from all over the world while some find their way into Europe and the Middle East to be used as household labor, agricultural farm labor, the workforce in the food and care services and the textile industry. Most of these people are from the less developed nations, cannot find some concrete source of income, and are easily coerced into these countries as a slave, while some are kidnapped and transported against their will.
The other form of rampant human trafficking is the illicit sex trafficking where women are kidnapped and coerced into foreign countries to provide sexual pleasure. Sellars prey on poor children under the guise of adoption agencies and non-governmental organizations. Though the families of these children promise their lives will be improved, the children are sold in the sex trade market. For example, in the years 2008 and 2009, 128 women from Iraq were sold to Saudi Arabia (Marinova & James, 2012). The main cause of sex trafficking is also poverty which means that women and children from poor countries are the most affected. They do not have access to basic amenities and resources to make life more comfortable and they end up looking for every means possible(Marinova & James, 2012). Some become more gullible to the predators who then sell them to sex trafficking syndicates. In addition, some countries have outlawed prostitution, and this is believed to increase sex trafficking.
The other form of trafficking comes in the form or organ trade or organ trafficking. This trade has manifested itself in cases identified in China, India, Brazil, South Africa and many more countries all over the world. Diseases that affect organs like kidneys cause people to scramble for them and this means that people resort to the illegal organ trade (Scheper-Hughes, 2004). According to the World Health Organization, about 11,000 human organs were obtained in the black market in the year 2010. Again, the trail moves from the poor in the slums all over the world to the rich who are in dire need of the organs. It is not that the poor are willing, but this is carried out through kidnapping and killing to obtain the organs (Scheper-Hughes, 2004).
Biblical Component: Human trafficking is a vital crime against human humanity and against God. It also a sin against the victim and against God. Deuteronomy 24:7 states “If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die.” As Christians, our duty is to pray for the victims and to help put an end to human trafficking.
Self-Reflection
Generally, human trafficking is the activity of illegally transporting people from one location to another to be forcefully used as laborers or to be exploited sexually. This is something everyone should put their focus on because this been going on for decades. I know many people might think it will not happen in their state, town, or country. However, I am here to tell you it can happen anywhere we never know. We got to be very cautious especially if we have children. I have an 18-year-old and she is getting ready to graduate. I am preparing her for this evil world out here. She wants to travel to all different states and countries, so I got to educate her on human trafficking.
In conclusion, Human trafficking is one of the most serious and unforgivable crimes in the world. The evil is manifested in different forms and has slowly but steadily been affecting people irrespective of their races, gender or ethnicity. It has become the modern-day form of slavery that involves the illegal trade of humans for some form of exploitation. The increased awareness by the people is very crucial since people can protect themselves against such as inhumane ordeal despite the efforts by the international humanitarian bodies. People, governments, and human right bodies should effortlessly work to ensure the menace is eradicated.
References
Hepburn, S., & Simon, R. J. (2013). Human trafficking around the world:

Marinova, N. K., & James, P. (2012). The tragedy of human trafficking: Competing theories
and European evidence. Foreign Policy Analysis, 8(3), 231-253.

Scheper-Hughes, N. (2004). Parts unknown: Undercover ethnography of the organs-
trafficking underworld. Ethnography, 5(1), 29-73.

Shelley, L. (2013). 6 Human trafficking as a form of transnational crime. In Human
trafficking (pp. 128-149).

Kempadoo, K., Sanghera, J., & Pattanaik, B. (2015). Trafficking and prostitution reconsidered: New perspectives on migration, sex work, and human rights. Routledge.