Sex Industry - Essay Example

Human trafficking is heinous of all the crimes against humanity.  It is an epidemic spreading at an alarming rate. Traffickers seek vulnerable members of society for this deprecating work. Women, children, migrants, and economically disadvantaged people are mainly the victims. The people who are trafficked are exploited as cheap and bonded labor. Small children and women are exploited in the sex industry. These victims not only suffer physically but also psychologically. As human trafficking is a multinational setup it is likely to become income generating business for antisocial elements. 

Human trafficking bears its roots in Slavery. People are enslaved because of debt and are forced to work as bonded labor. They are forced to work at factories, farmlands, as domestic servants, and even as beggars. These labors are physically and sexually exploited. Migrants, economically disadvantaged people, disillusioned teenagers, and drug addicts, abducted and abandoned children fall into the trap of these traffickers and are forced into the sex trade. The victims of this abuse suffer psychologically and physically. After they are rescued it becomes really difficult for them to begin life afresh. They carry trauma associated with this abuse throughout their life. It is not easy for them to regain social acceptance. The children rescued from traffickers suffer depression, anxiety attacks, and psychological disorders and most of them grow up into adults with criminal tendencies. Women rescued suffer from various sexually transmitted diseases, other untreated medical problems, and lasting threats against self and family, or even death.

 In many countries, the trafficking industry is a very well organised market with sometimes top officials and politicians also involved. This gives traffickers a chance to fend themselves from the law and continue their business. There is always the likelihood that the revenue generated from this million-dollar industry could be utilized for anti-social activities and terrorism; this could be prevented by organizingganisedanising an international task force working at all the borders regulating trafficker’s entry.

There should be some stringent rules to ban these derogatory activities happening around the world. "Governments need to get serious about identifying the full extent of the problem so they can get serious about eliminating it.  The fact that slavery -- in the form of human trafficking -- still exists in the 21st Century shames us all,"(UN Report). Government and Legislation are working hand in hand to uproot this ghastly practice but there are some loopholes as a result of which the traffickers are not prosecuted. “A global problem like this requires a global response.”(UN Report) Firstly, the zone of human trafficking needs to be recognized. It is mostly the poor and underprivileged who are forced into this practice. Secondly, upgrading the living standards of these people, imparting free education, and providing each family with a self-sustaining support system will largely help minimize this practice thus, reducing child labor and child exploitation. Companies like Gap, Atlanta, and Coca-Cola are already working in opposition to child labor. Similarly, other companies need to formulate plans to identify child labor and eliminate it. 

Some rigorous international laws are needed to eradicate this problem from the root. “…effective action to prevent and combat trafficking in persons, especially women, and children, requires a comprehensive international approach in the countries of origin, transit, and destination that includes measures to prevent such trafficking, to punish the traffickers, and to protect the victims of such trafficking, including by protecting their internationally recognized human rights...”.All countries need to work together against this inhumane practice and bring perpetrators of this crime to a proper judgment.