Human Trafficking in the World Today

In this country, it is the norm to take mostly everything for granted. Most of us as Americans never stop long enough to realize that there are millions of people throughout the world that don’t have anything to take for granted. It’s a sad reality that many people, mostly children, face daily.
Do to the fact that there is such an abundance of poor children in Romania, it is a prime spot for traffickers who profit from enslaving children. These children are then sold as sex slaves where they are raped, abused and beaten to death or they are sold for hard labor. Because there children are so easily replaced, death is a common occurrence among them.
As a result of the ongoing five-decade war, Southern Sudan is the poorest nation in the world with one of the highest rates of human trafficking and enslavement.
It’s not just in third world countries that trafficking occurs. The United Stated reportedly imports 50,000 sex slaves annually. These women are often repeatedly beat. Traffickers characteristically use anything from physical force to tranquilizer drugs to make women prostitute themselves. Typically, they use threats against their victims, telling them that if they try to leave they will be deported by the government or that their families will in someway be harmed.
There are over 30 million victims of human trafficking and modern day slavery in the world today. Second only to drug trafficking, human trafficking produces roughly $9.5 billion each year. The end of human trafficking is still a long way away, but we can help simply by spreading the awareness of what we know to others who don’t .