Global Human Trafficking
Global human trafficking is the second largest and fastest-growing organized crime in the world. There are an estimated 21 million people enslaved today, 4.5 million of which are in the sex industry. The profit from trafficking estimating in all forms of exploitation and slavery is a total of $32 billion a year, and profits from sex slavery amount to nearly $10 billion. A significant number of people believe that slavery ended in 1863 but modern slavery still exists in every corner of the globe. Not just in remote areas of Asia and Europe but in your home country. In America, there are 60,000 men, women, and children enslaved at this very moment. In FBI's recent statistics on human trafficking out of the top 13 cities California is the home
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The problem of human trafficking has sparked political attention over the past decade and the focus in the US in terms of advocacy, funding, and law enforcement has been almost entirely on sex trafficking. Globally, The United Nation's International Labor Organization estimates that 21 million people are victims of forced labor, and labor trafficking shows up in supply chains for numerous products, from automobiles to electronics to pet food. The ways trafficking intersects with our own lives are how our nation contains the complications of immigration policy, international migration, global inequalities, and, arguably the American addiction for cheap stuff. There are no clear statistics on the number of labor trafficking victims in the US since the nature of the crime is that workers' situations are hidden and manipulated. Laws on human trafficking vary in strength from country to country or state-to-state within the United States, which results in enforcement to be weak. Citizens are also guilty as to supporting illegal labor. It is as simple as buying a certain brand of clothing. Big brands like Nike have been exposed to have sweatshops throughout the globe. Nearly a third of unauthorized migrant workers in San Diego County have been victims of labor trafficking and more than half have experienced other labor abuses, according to a landmark study released in the nation's capital. A main factor to labor trafficking is the victims' lack of legal status. In California, voters approved increased penalties for convicted sex traffickers. Despite such attention, there
The problem of human trafficking has sparked political attention over the past decade and the focus in the US in terms of advocacy, funding, and law enforcement has been almost entirely on sex trafficking. Globally, The United Nation's International Labor Organization estimates that 21 million people are victims of forced labor, and labor trafficking shows up in supply chains for numerous products, from automobiles to electronics to pet food. The ways trafficking intersects with our own lives are how our nation contains the complications of immigration policy, international migration, global inequalities, and, arguably the American addiction for cheap stuff. There are no clear statistics on the number of labor trafficking victims in the US since the nature of the crime is that workers' situations are hidden and manipulated. Laws on human trafficking vary in strength from country to country or state-to-state within the United States, which results in enforcement to be weak. Citizens are also guilty as to supporting illegal labor. It is as simple as buying a certain brand of clothing. Big brands like Nike have been exposed to have sweatshops throughout the globe. Nearly a third of unauthorized migrant workers in San Diego County have been victims of labor trafficking and more than half have experienced other labor abuses, according to a landmark study released in the nation's capital. A main factor to labor trafficking is the victims' lack of legal status. In California, voters approved increased penalties for convicted sex traffickers. Despite such attention, there