The Consequences Of Human Trafficking
I want to discuss an issue that ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name—modern slavery. Human trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for commercial sex or forced labour. If we let them, traffickers and predators will continue to take our children. Human trafficking is out of control, it has surpassed
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Perpetrators of sex trafficking often target and manipulate people who are poor, vulnerable, living in an unsafe situation, or searching for a better life. For example, youth with a history of abuse and neglect or who are homeless are more likely to be exploited. Consequences can be immediate and long term, including physical and relationship problems, psychological concerns, and chronic health …show more content…
Not only is this industry unethical but immoral, to devalue women, men and children to the point of enslaving them is not what we as people were created to do. What if we could stop girls and boys as young as four from being sold daily? Not only is this an international problem but it’s here in Australia, it’s in our own backyard. What if we changed the statistic of every 30 seconds another person being sold into slavery? What if we could change it from being a billion-dollar industry, growing faster than Apple, Google and Starbucks combined? So, for so millions of kids this means waking up being trapped, cold, not having food and the only chance of survival is based on being sold for sex. Something that we all take for granted is our freedom. Who knew the little things like having your mum and dad wake you up, take you to school, come home, play a sport, learn an instrument, getting tucked into bed at night, a normal day to us isn’t the reality for millions of
Perpetrators of sex trafficking often target and manipulate people who are poor, vulnerable, living in an unsafe situation, or searching for a better life. For example, youth with a history of abuse and neglect or who are homeless are more likely to be exploited. Consequences can be immediate and long term, including physical and relationship problems, psychological concerns, and chronic health …show more content…
Not only is this industry unethical but immoral, to devalue women, men and children to the point of enslaving them is not what we as people were created to do. What if we could stop girls and boys as young as four from being sold daily? Not only is this an international problem but it’s here in Australia, it’s in our own backyard. What if we changed the statistic of every 30 seconds another person being sold into slavery? What if we could change it from being a billion-dollar industry, growing faster than Apple, Google and Starbucks combined? So, for so millions of kids this means waking up being trapped, cold, not having food and the only chance of survival is based on being sold for sex. Something that we all take for granted is our freedom. Who knew the little things like having your mum and dad wake you up, take you to school, come home, play a sport, learn an instrument, getting tucked into bed at night, a normal day to us isn’t the reality for millions of