Byproduct or Symptom
Human trafficking is a multi-billion dollar criminal enterprise targeting vulnerable people for labour and sexual exploitation.My only question is is human trafficking inevitable, is it a byproduct of a capatilist economy where money will come first ahead of human dignity and moral values or can it be stopped through effective policing?
The Victims
People that migrate to and fro internationaly or locally are vulnerable to social or political pressures or crises. In order to seek for better life opportunities, they are willing to be smuggled across borders and suddenly find themselves in a trafficking network Time and time again its poor people that are victims often from rural villages they are lured into these situations through the promises of better jojs and a better life, the incentive for financial security often outweights their safety and well-being.
- There 2.5 million people being trafficked every year around the world 80% are woman and 50% are children, these statistics aren't always reliable due to the nature of the problem.
- Every year 50,000 woman and children are brought to the United States to work as slaves.
- The average price for individual slaves is less than that of a cell phone,anything from R100 to R500.
- Every year more than 1 million children are exploited in the global commercial sex trade.
- After drug dealing human trafficking is tied with the illegal arms trade as the second largest criminal industry in the world, and it is the fastest growing.
- Human Trafficking is estimated to be a seven billion dollar anuall businuss.
With these statistics I believe that Human trafficking much like drug trafficking brings in too much money into economies all over the world for it to be eradicated, although people in power might say it is wrong I believe deep down the are for it, due to its economic benefits, I stand to be corrected but modern slavery is frowned upon but either than that little else is done.
Human trafficking is just wrong.It is not showing humanity at all,its like taking other people's freedom and that is totally not good.let us treat each other equally and treat others as we want them to treat us
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that the iead of equality is pure hypocracy there is no equality in our education in our job market or even in our social standing with each other why should we expect any different when it comes to the idea of slavery maybe this was to be expected,seven billion rand annually that is a lot of money.maybe it should be legalised and regulated
Deletehuman trafficking is immoral and i feel that the government is not doing a lot to stop it from happening, as it is destroying the future of our nation
ReplyDeletemaybe the govournment doesn't want to do anything with a seven billion rand cash injection into the economy who would say no?
Deletethe government is not doing anything about it hey cause lets face it... but yeah human trafficking is wrong.but as a PRP Phemelo what would you propose the state should do about this issue?
ReplyDeletethe govournment must stop having half measures either they acknowledge that human trafficking is creating a lot of economic growth and legalise and regulate it like cigarettes and alchohol thereby also creating jobs or eradicate poverty so that the people that are trafficked do so willingly and not because they are desperate for work or money.
DeleteHuman trafficking is just wrong because young childern end up being slaves and doing hard labour at a very tender age instead of them being at school and being educated to better their future.
ReplyDeletehuman trafficking is so not right even if the government thinks it brings in money then i must say we live in a terrible world
ReplyDeletemoney does control our world
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