Human Trafficking and Exploitation

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Human Trafficking and Exploitation

By: Jayla Smith

Global Crisis

Amber Alerts, posters, and weeping mothers are some of what an individual might go through when their child is reported missing. Human trafficking and other forms of horrific exploitation, including forced labor and marriage, are reported to affect approximately 40.3 million people globally.

Exploitation and Trafficking in America

Human traffickers’ victims ‘branded like cattle’

According to CNN, nearly 800,000 children are reported missing in the United States each year. Which is 2,000 children a day. A Chicago Reader article’s statistics also states, approximately 838 people were reported missing in Chicago since January 1st, 2019, and is still rising. Of those 838 people nearly 25 percent were African American women from 11 to 21 years old. 68 percent were a coed of black children. Caucasians and other minorities with those reported missing are at approximately 4 percent

A study conducted by the University of New Hampshire’s research center, elaborates more on the missing children when it elaborates more on the missing children epidemic. About 40 percent are runaways while others are kidnapped or in difficult systems with the government.

A woman rescued from a sex trafficking nightmare in Mexico has Karla Jacinto, 23, has said that she was raped 43,200 times over the last 4 years.

Children in Chicago go missing approximately every 2 hours and according to that research center, African American children are the most targeted. When considering findings from studies around the world, they indicate consistently that most trafficked people experience violence, hazardous and exhausting work, and few emerge without longer-term, sometimes disabling, physical and psychological damage.

It is important to follow steps to ensure your safety when out in public and especially alone. These steps include: staying in groups, making sure a parent knows where you are at all times, be cautious of everyone around and if someone is following you, call 911 immediately if you sense danger or an uncomfortable feeling.

Spreading awareness and a public health approach to prevent human trafficking should simultaneously generate greater attention to labor exploitation. Another large factor in human trafficking is exploitation.

Although exploitation is extremely common within the trafficking realm, it can be seen in plain sight as well with unexceptionally low wages accompanied by long hours typically labored by migrants.

In an attempt to resolve this tremendous issue would be an enormous amount of support from the media following a testimony from middle to lower class economies on how much low-wage workers are currently exploited and about the ways that work hazards might harm individuals; who might then be forced to send their children to work.

This testimony could bring millions in awareness and establishments who have the power to terminate any exploitation out of individuals who suffer from it.

Human trafficking and exploitation is growing extremely high as technology and individuals advance. It is significant to protect yourself and children at all times against neighboring yet invisible predators.

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Works cited

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002437

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/14/perspectives/human-trafficking-fight/index.html

http://unh.edu/ccrc/prostitution/

http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/projects/technology_in_child_sex_traffic.htmlhttps://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/ArticleArchives?tag=human%20trafficking