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Essay / Human Trafficking Across the World - 1120
Human Trafficking Across the WorldHuman trafficking occurs when a person is forced or tricked into working in terrible conditions. Victims of human trafficking may be kidnapped or sometimes lured by false promises of a better future in a new country. Human trafficking is a high-profit, low-risk business for traffickers. Human trafficking can take place within a country or transnationally and is considered a crime against the trafficked victim due to the violation of the victim's movement rights through coercion and of its commercial operation. In many countries, young women are kidnapped and trafficked for the purpose of subjecting them to forced labor, sexual slavery and the removal of body parts such as organs and tissues, as well as 'to the collection of surrogate mothers or eggs. Young women required for forced labor are traded across continents. Forced labor is a generic term for employment relationships in which people are employed against their will under threat of deprivation, detention, violence (including death), legal coercion or other extreme difficulties for themselves or for members of their respective families. . Forced labor is a form of human trafficking that can be difficult to identify and estimate; This is what is commonly called labor trafficking. These may not be the same criminal networks that profit from transnational trafficking for sexual exploitation. Most often, individuals are guilty of subjecting a servant or hundreds of unpaid factory workers to involuntary servitude. Many of these victims are physically and mentally abused. Victims of forced labor are usually trafficked from less developed countries or communities to more developed and prosperous places. Like Golb...... middle of paper ......e and that we should do everything in our power and abilities to prevent this from happening to any other woman across the world. It is our duty to help prevent women from suffering this kind of fate. Works Cited Goldberg, Michelle. “The Hidden Slave Trade Today.” The daily beast. The Daily Beast, June 28, 2011. Web. February 14, 2014. Lloyd, Rachel. Girls Like Us: Fighting for a world where girls are not for sale. 1st ed. HarperCollins Publishers. Ebook. Muller, Gilbert. The New World Reader. 4th ed. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2014. Print. Swinford, Steven. 'Girl smuggled into Britain to have her organs harvested'. The telegraph. The Telegraph, October 18, 2013. Web. February 15, 2014. “A network of traffickers steals eggs from women with the help of a Greek doctor.” Keep talking about Greece. Keep Talking Greece, September 18, 2010. Web. February 14 2014.