Instead, this article analyses the claim around levels of human trafficking, in relation to children. Two human trafficking support organizations told Reuters it is difficult to quantify human trafficking statistics, and that the offenders are known to the victims in most child trafficking cases.
Research from Polaris polarisproject. National Human Trafficking Hotline, shows that reports of human trafficking have increased yearly since The most recent data shown in The U.
According to the agency, trafficked children almost always know their trafficker here. A video by Polaris on this can be seen here. It is a form of modern day slavery that profits from the exploitation of our most vulnerable populations. One common misperception is that human trafficking requires movement across borders. In reality, it involves controlling a person or group through force, fraud, or coercion to exploit the victims for forced labor, sexual exploitation, or both.
This can occur entirely within a single country or it can cross borders. Human trafficking strips victims of their freedom and violates our nation's promise that every person in the United States is guaranteed basic human rights.
It is also a crime. Attorney General's Office is focused on combating the pervasive issue of human trafficking in California and has made it one of his top priorities. The International Labor Organization estimates that there are more than This includes 16 million victims of labor exploitation, 4.
Additionally, both conflict and natural disaster can lead people to migrate out of their hometowns and home countries, making them more vulnerable to traffickers, especially if they are looking for work or paying smugglers to get where they want to go. And with increased economic instability, traffickers have opportunities to offer false job offers to people, leading them into trafficking situations.
One major cause of human trafficking is the large profit that traffickers gain. This is an incentive for them to continue trafficking people in both forced labor and sex trafficking. For traffickers using forced laborers and bonded laborers, they get cheap labor and can sell their product or service at a much higher cost. For those using sex trafficking, they can easily take all of the profit, forcing women to make a certain amount each night, and keeping them in the situation through drugs, violent force, threats, and more.
For those looking to migrate out of their home countries due to safety concerns or economic opportunities, they are especially vulnerable to traffickers.
Traffickers can use illegal smuggling as a way to trick people into forced labor or sex trafficking. And for migrants looking for jobs in other countries, traffickers typically offer them job opportunities that seem legitimate, only to force them into a trafficking situation.
For instance, when Russia was preparing for the Sochi Olympics, several men from Serbia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and other nearby countries were promised construction jobs, only to be paid very little and be treated poorly. And many women from countries like Nigeria, Ukraine, and other Eastern European and African countries are offered nannying or restaurant jobs in Western Europe, only to trapped in sex trafficking. Above many other factors that cause human trafficking are the traffickers themselves.
Beyond cultural practices, the profit, vulnerabilities of certain people groups, lack of human rights, economic instability, and more, traffickers are the ones who choose to exploit people for their own gain. While many of these factors may play into the reasons why traffickers get into the business, they still make a willful decision to enslave people against their will—either because of the profit or because of a belief that certain people are worth less or because of a system of abuse and crime that they were raised in.
Trafficking ultimately exists because people are willing to exploit others into trafficking situations. Through understanding the root causes of human trafficking, human rights workers and other development professionals can begin to address the causes at the base level. Enforcing human rights, helping people access education, and helping to increase economic opportunities for people are just a few ways that we can address causes and help prevent human trafficking for future generations.
Emmaline Soken-Huberty is a freelance writer based in Portland, Oregon.
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