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    The Human Trafficking Epidemic Introduction Dai is a victim of human trafficking. She became a victim when she met a military man and fell in love. He then convinced her to to move to a remote location with him. She agreed and once she got there, she was beaten and raped. She was eventually able to escape, but the man had taken all of her forms of identification. This meant that she was unable to really get any help or start a new life. From there she became a street walker to help make money so

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    Modern Human Trafficking Human trafficking is defined as recruitment, concealing and transporting of individuals involuntarily for labor and sexual needs under fraudulent and forceful means (“Fact Sheet”). Modern day human trafficking first became a focus in 1994 when monitoring began. Human trafficking encompasses more individuals in slavery today then any previous time in history, with about 2.4 million trafficked globally (“Fact Sheet”). Human trafficking involves both the sex and labor trafficking

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    Human trafficking and human exploitation is a serious crime and a grave violation of human rights. Each year, thousands of individuals are subjected to human trafficking and human exploitation either in their countries or abroad regardless of their age, gender, race and socio-economic background. Human trafficking and human exploitation are a form of modern day slavery and a crime involved controlling an individual against their will through violence, fraud, and coercion for the satisfaction of personal

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    convince my readers that human trafficking and human smuggling are not the same. It is important to identify these two key terms in an effort to better understand them. By doing this my readers will have a better understanding of why it is important to distinction them. Human trafficking and human smuggling are huge markets worldwide and as a result can provide many of those involved with an income. The amount of income that is produced annually due to human trafficking is not known. According to

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    still possess total control. Human trafficking is the term used today rather than slavery, although the two terms can be used in a somewhat synonyms. “Humans are renewable commodities. They can be bought and sold exponentially” (Helton.) That is exactly the mindset that a trafficker possesses. They do not see human beings as exactly that; to a trafficker they are simply pieces in their business. Whether that business is sex trafficking and the exploitation of humans for the purpose of sexual endeavors

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    Human trafficking brings in billions of dollars into the U.S and all around the world. “The prime motive for such outrageous abuse is simple: money. In this $12 billion global business just one woman trafficked into the industrialized world can net her captors an average $67,000 a year” (Baird 2007). The laws around human trafficking are not strict and vary depending on what country it is happening in. Human trafficking is not something that is strictly foreign, it is happening right in front of

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    Although often mistaken to be the same, human trafficking and human smuggling are two separate illegal acts. Human trafficking is the crime against the person, while smuggling is the criminality against the state (Salt, 2000). The voluntary act of a person to transport trafficking victims across a border for monetary compensation refers to human smuggling. Although commonly performed for financial gain, sometimes individuals smuggle people to reunite them with their families. This can include

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    Human trafficking is the act or practice of illegally transporting people from one country or area to another, typically for the purposes of forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation, however, it is continuing to grow in the united states and is happening everywhere not just in other countries. In this essay, I want to explain how human trafficking is involved in human services and how we can help people get help after they have been a victim of human trafficking. Victims can be men or women

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    Human Trafficking Human trafficking has been a problem for too long. It affects many people at a time. There are many stories about different people who had been taken. The traffickers have different strategies in order to pull in different people. Human trafficking is not only in America, but in every part of the world. Around 4.5 million victims get stuck in sex trafficking. There are many ways to help stop human trafficking that are not hard to do and do not cost any money. If everybody could

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    horrifying. The reading was difficult. I must say I was not surprised by it though. The situations mentioned in the text are all too familiar to me. I used to volunteer at children’s homes, as well as homeless shelters. I heard all the stories of human trafficking and prostitution in children. I meet the girls and I got to know the victims. My heart broke for them. I remember one little girl by the name of Andy that started prostitution at the age of 12 and then was almost killed. It is a sick thing. Reading

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