Human Trafficking

Stacey Pena April 4, 2012
Deborah
AP Humanities Silenced Human Trafficking
What is Human Trafficking? Many people are familiar with human trafficking, but do not hear about it as much as murders or robberies on the news. It is like it never happens. I always question myself about what can be done to put a stop to this and make people aware of this crisis. People are being taken and others do not even know what is going on around them. Nicholas Kristof is one of the individuals that is working towards making a change and helping other girls become free from this terrible experience. They create helpful organizations that put up a fight. Organizations are creating awareness towards the public about human trafficking. They are working on cases that involve the victims and have created groups to help overcome this life changing experience. Trafficking is a profitable industry. It has been identified as the fastest growing criminal industry in the world. It is second only to drug trafficking as the most profitable illegal industry in the world. In 2004, the total annual revenue for human trafficking was estimated to be between $5 billion and $9 billion (Cornell University). Even so, there are a lot of organizations out there helping. Many people are not aware about the human trafficking that is going on in the world and the things people go through while being trafficked. There are a lot of organizations out there helping, but are not creating awareness. There is not a lot of awareness and so that the public does not know what is going on in the world involving human trafficking. The article U.S Human Trafficking Report includes U.S Cases for First Time, describes different cases throughout the world and this time the U.S is included for the very first time. A lot of these cases included women who had been arrested for prostitution and the government not knowing they were being trafficked and forced to prostitute themselves. CNN…