Human Trafficking Essay 2022

Running head: HUMAN TRAFFICKING
HUMAN TRAFFICKING: A STUDY
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Human trafficking can be defined as trade of humans for the purpose of sexual
exploitation, forced labor and domestic labor (Farrell, Owens and McDevitt 2014). Human
trafficking is rampant in the poor and the third world countries such as India, Nepal and the
African countries. The respective paper is a descriptive essay on human trafficking, its causes
and consequences, along with graph and diagram.
The main purpose of human trafficking includes forced labor, forced marriage, sexual
slavery and commercial sexual exploitation (Weitzer 2014). Sometimes, the victims are also
predated in order to extract organs and tissues such as kidneys and ova for commercial purposes.
Human trafficking is considered to be a crime because it diabolically violates the fundamental
and human rights of the victims by commercially exploiting them where the dehumanization of
the victim occurs when he or she is commoditized (Lee 2013).
The causes of human trafficking, most probably, are traced down to poverty and
miserable condition of the society. The factors such as poverty, illiteracy, immigration policies,
environmental conditions, fragmented families and unemployment are considered to be the
primary causes of human trafficking (Batana, Bussolo and Cockburn 2013). However, the
studies have it that the root cause of human trafficking are the traffickers, who are
Mephistophelian and gruesome to take undue advantage of exploiting the poor, helpless and
miserable people who are often found to be at their mercy only to get financial help and
necessities such as food and shelter. The global statistics of poverty rate as disclosed by the
World Bank in the year 2019 is that nearly 1.5 billion fewer people are living in extreme poverty
than the year 1990. In 2015, 736 million people lived on less than $1.90 a day, down from 1.85
billion in 1990 (Worldbank.org.2019). The statistics have also declared that more than half of the
extreme poor reside in the region of Sub- Saharan Africa and the majority of global poor are
often found in rural areas, who are poorly educated or almost illiterate, employed in the