He grew up in a small rural town in Vietnam. When his father pasted away when he was just fifteen, he became the man of his household. He went to see plastic bottles for recycling in the capital city to earn a living since he was not in school. One day a man came to him and promised a great deal of money he could make in a restaurant in Europe if he could get a few thousand dollars together for a travel agent to help arrange his traveling and boarding. Thrilled at this chance to make a respectable living, enough to send back home to his mother and sisters, he raised enough money to begin his journey to Europe. After continuous traveling through countries in a fourteen-month period, he finally arrived in England. A Vietnamese man named Cuong
…show more content…
To encourage you to look beyond what just meets the eye and to help find, rescue and rehabilitate human trafficking victims.
Human trafficking has become one of the most notorious human rights violations. Human trafficking is a modern day euphemism for slavery. It can be defined by the illegal trade or sale of human beings for sexual exploitation or forced labor through abduction, the use or threat of force, deception and fraud. It knows no gender, race, age, or even boundaries, due to globalization (Perkins). Traffickers search for victims who are the most vulnerable people in the community: people who are weighed down by poverty, discrimination, and …show more content…
Sex trafficking disproportionately affects women and children and it involves them in forced participation of commercial sex acts. Traffickers exploit one million children in the commercial sex trade industry annually. Labor trafficking is also known as involuntary servitude. This can range from domestic servitude, such as being a housekeeper or a maid, factory work, restaurant work, sweatshop work, and agricultural work. Lastly debt bondage can trap victims in human trafficking. This is when an individual is forced to work for their captor in order to pay off a debt that is “owed” to them.
While each victim of human trafficking having a different back story of how they ended up in this vicious ring of slavery, there are generally three main reasons of how a person can end up a victim of human trafficking: poverty, political conditions, and war. Victims who are in poverty want to desperately leave to get out of their current situation so they will risk everything in order to leave the place that has kept them trapped in poverty. Traffickers use this as bait to lure people in poverty to move to a different
To encourage you to look beyond what just meets the eye and to help find, rescue and rehabilitate human trafficking victims.
Human trafficking has become one of the most notorious human rights violations. Human trafficking is a modern day euphemism for slavery. It can be defined by the illegal trade or sale of human beings for sexual exploitation or forced labor through abduction, the use or threat of force, deception and fraud. It knows no gender, race, age, or even boundaries, due to globalization (Perkins). Traffickers search for victims who are the most vulnerable people in the community: people who are weighed down by poverty, discrimination, and …show more content…
Sex trafficking disproportionately affects women and children and it involves them in forced participation of commercial sex acts. Traffickers exploit one million children in the commercial sex trade industry annually. Labor trafficking is also known as involuntary servitude. This can range from domestic servitude, such as being a housekeeper or a maid, factory work, restaurant work, sweatshop work, and agricultural work. Lastly debt bondage can trap victims in human trafficking. This is when an individual is forced to work for their captor in order to pay off a debt that is “owed” to them.
While each victim of human trafficking having a different back story of how they ended up in this vicious ring of slavery, there are generally three main reasons of how a person can end up a victim of human trafficking: poverty, political conditions, and war. Victims who are in poverty want to desperately leave to get out of their current situation so they will risk everything in order to leave the place that has kept them trapped in poverty. Traffickers use this as bait to lure people in poverty to move to a different