Exploitation, Forced Labour and Trafficking

Running head: EXPLOITATION, FORCED LABOUR AND TRAFFICKING
Exploitation, forced labour and trafficking
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Running head: EXPLOITATION, FORCED LABOUR AND TRAFFICKING
In the modern times, the world is facing certain critical situations regarding the human
trafficking, exploitation in various fields and forced labour. The purpose of this essay is to focus
on the various issues that the world is facing for the numerous incidents of human trafficking,
forced labour and exploitation. This paper discusses various aspects of exploitations, forced
labour and trafficking and provides some recommendations to eliminate these global issues.
Exploitation is the act of taking unfair advantages from a person. There are various forms
of exploitation such as, labor exploitation, child exploitation, exploitation of women and others
(Lee 13-37). The world is facing a serious challenge regarding social and workplace exploitation.
In the economic sector, labors are trafficked and exploited in a various ways. Individuals are
subjected to trade for the purpose of slavery, forced labor and commercial and sexual
exploitation. It is not only the problem of the third world countries. Human trafficking is an
everyday issue even in the countries like U.S. It has been considered that approximately 800000
people are being victimized for trafficking every year (Lewis and Dwyer). Forced labor is the
situation where individuals are forced to work by the use of intimidation and violence.
All over the world, the problem of human trafficking for exploitation and forced labour
has been detected. Director of Africans United against Child Abuse, Debbie Ariyo, presented the
scenario of forced labor in the UK. He observed that children are exposed to trafficking for
various reasons like child labor, domestic slavery, sexual exploitation, social exploitation,
removal of organs and so on (Weitzer 223-242). Children who are from streets or indigent
families, subjected to war and conflicts, or orphaned by AIDS or HIV are mostly used for
exploitation purpose. Again, the supervising attorney of FIAC (Florida Immigrant Advocacy
Centre), Maria Jose Fletcher provided an insight into the exploitation in agricultural and
domestic sectors in the United States. Though US had signed the Trafficking Victims Protections

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Act in the year 2000, there have been several incidents of human trafficking in the agricultural
sector for labor exploitation (Akee). Almost 1000 out of 1200 persons, who were enslaved in the
workplace, were reported to be undocumented migrants from Central American countries.
Exploitation of forced labor has another form that is the organized begging. In the absence of
attention and care from the parents, children are trafficked from the Roman countries. Criminal
groups forced the vulnerable and discriminated children and women to participate in burglaries.
As per the report of ILO, today, there are over 12 million people who are the victims of forced
labor. Out of them almost, 2.4 million victims are trafficked for the purpose of forced labour
(“Hrw.Org”). In Asia only the majority, that is almost 9.5 million people are found to be victims
of forced labor. The number of women and children facing sexual exploitation is as much as
98% and in o9ther forms the number is 56%. Among all the forms of forced labour across the
world, 50% of the exploited victims are under the age of 18 year (“Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov”). Apart
from the sexual trading and entertainment industry; exploitation takes place in the construction,
agriculture, textiles and catering industry. As per the report of U.S. State Dept Trafficking in
Person, a huge number of women and children are trafficked from Egypt for the purpose of
exploitation and forced labour (“Loc.Gov”). Over a million of children per year are hired for the
cotton pest management in Egypt between the age ranges of seven to twelve years and are forced
to work for eleven hours a days for seven days a week.
The UN Convention on Organized Crime and its Trafficking Protocol was introduced in
the year 2000, following which several countries have taken a step towards to prevent and
prosecute the incidents of human trafficking and forced labour (“Humantraffickinghotline.Org”).
This protocol was followed by EU Framework Decision in 2002 on fighting human trafficking
(Ventrella). In 2005 the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human