Human Trafficking - A Modern Form of Slavery

When the subject of slavery is discussed, many people think about the history of the United States. In fact, the United States abolished slavery in 1865 and in Article 13 of the amendment to the US Constitution, "slavery and unwilling slavery should not exist in the United States or under its jurisdiction" USA). Constitution). Slavery is considered past, but its existence is evident in countless countries around the world. Thousands of foreigners were smuggled across the border, forced to work in factories, farms, brothels.

This research thesis discusses the problem of trafficking in the United States. Trafficking is a form of modern slavery in the United States. This form of slavery exposes women, men, and children to sexual abuse, prostitution, brothels and so on. In each province, victims' illegal trade is ongoing and is extremely dangerous. - As we know, slavery may be abolished in most parts of the world, but there are different forms of slavery lurking in the shadows. Approximately 27 million people worldwide are currently in slavery. At the present time, more people are enslaved than at any time in history. (Liberation Slave, 2013) These are men, women and children who rob all human rights and live under terrible conditions

Trafficking is a modern slavery. This is an extreme form of labor exploitation, recruiting or acquiring women, men and children, and then forced to violate their will by force, fraud or compulsion. Victims of human trafficking are often attracted to a decent job and a better life. Women's global position and opportunities are facing inequality that makes women particularly vulnerable to trafficking. Federal law defines "severe forms of trafficking" as a sexual transaction in which sexual transactions are caused by compulsion, fraud, or compulsion or to induce such acts to be under 18 years of age To do. Armament, fraud for the recruitment, containment, transportation, provision or acquisition of workers or service personnel, with the aim of targeting people to unwilling slavery, forced labor, corruption, debt restraint or slavery; Or use forced.

According to the United Nations, trafficking in humans is a "modern slavery including recruitment, transportation, transfer, accommodation or receipt of drugs and crimes by intimidation, the use of force for the purpose of exploitation or other forms of compulsion". Victims of human trafficking in the Philippines have been found in 37 countries on five continents in the 2013 Trafficking of Traffic (TIP) report. In the Philippines, lack of economic opportunities, socialization of gender role, family dynamics, human trafficking It is particularly vulnerable to the damage of trading. However, there are currently no reliable statistics on the number of victims of trafficking in the Philippines.