Human trafficking has become a significant problem of modern society and a considerable part of the criminal industry that keeps growing. Officially 40.3 million people globally have been victims of this enslavement (Zimmerman & Kriss, 2017). The types of human trafficking that harshly break human rights are sex trafficking, forced labor, and debt bondage.
Sex trafficking is slavery that uses women for prostitution and pornography. Spreading the idea of the ease with which people can buy sex can influence the young generation’s values. With sex trafficking and prostitution, society’s attitude to women and relationships is flawed and demanding. That explains the second-wave feminism in the 1980s when women started fighting for their rights, equality, and freedom. Protecting women from sex trafficking will solve one of the most significant problems of human slavery and will help to build a better society.
In addition, forced labor is also known as the biggest sector of trafficking in the world. It can include domestic work, manufacturing, processing, packaging, market trading, and illegal activities. According to Zimmerman & Kriss (2017), people that suffered from labor exploitation “experienced multiple forms of abuse, numerous sector-specific occupational hazards, dangerous living conditions, and suffered a range of poor health consequences” (p.2). Most immigrants willing to leave their motherland and family to earn money are trapped in slavery and poorness. Labor trade is an inhuman part of trafficking that damages peoples’ lives and breaks their rights.
Debt bondage is another way to involve people in trafficking that played a significant role in human history. As payment for a debt, traffickers offer individuals the ability to work to pay off the debt. Bonded labor started in the 1860s following the Civil War, when financially exhausted landowners could rent land to African American farmers, secure their debt and work. However, farmers were forbidden by law to leave the landowner’s property until they paid their debt, trapping them in a state of slavery to the landowner. Currently, there is no reliable estimate of the number of people enslaved in debt bondage globally.
To conclude, it is essential to say that human trafficking has been the worst type of crime affecting people’s rights. People need to learn the prominent rule to show the same attitude towards another one they want themselves to be treated with.
Reference
Zimmerman, C., & Kriss, L. (2017). Human trafficking and exploitation: A global health concern. PLoS Medicine, 14 (11), 1-11.