Human Trafficking: What It Really Is

Trafficking is a serious problem affecting millions of people around the world regardless of race, color, or creed. Trafficking can occur in any city or community around the world and is one of the most important issues being debated. Many people have different perspectives on trafficking and how they should be taken care of. Most people do not know much about things about trafficking. "Trafficking is a form of contemporary slavery that people can benefit from dominating and exploiting others" (Polaris Project) Trafficking is a serious problem occurring all over the world.

Human trafficking has spread all over the world, but it remains hidden in the eyes of the public. Trafficking in person means the recruitment or retention of people through threats, forces, and compulsions to profit human beings. Regardless of whether this is a true sexual crime or a future business, there are doubts about various problems related to the complexity of trafficking. Various types of human trafficking include forced labor, bondage by debt, child soldiers, sex trade, domestic slavery and mail order brides.

Human trafficking is a market-oriented criminal industry based on the principle of supply and demand, such as trafficking of drugs and weapons. Children and adults are vulnerable to trafficking due to many factors. But trafficking is not the only reason that many people are vulnerable to exploitation. Instead, trafficking is driven by the need for cheap labor, services and commercial sex. Traffickers are people who use force, fraud, or compulsion to harm other people who want to benefit from existing needs. Finally, in order to deal with the trafficking problem, it is necessary to deal with these demand factors and to change the overall market incentive that traffickers are currently using for high profit and low risk .

Trafficking occurs when a person acquires or holds another person with a mandatory service. Trafficking in person includes labor and sex trafficking. Victims of human trafficking, especially women and girls are also vulnerable to sexual exploitation, so that labor and sex trading often overlap. Typical damage situation occurring between forms of trafficking requires a broader approach from identification to response. Anyone can be a victim of human trafficking. Risk factors for sex trade and risk factors for trafficking are distinctive, but very similar. Victims / survivors come from various backgrounds, race, sex, sexual orientation and economic status. Traffickers are targeted at people who are vulnerable for whatever reason and who may be more vulnerable to manipulation and control by human traffickers. Factors that increase the vulnerability of the victim include, but are not limited to: