Human trafficking and the Modern-Day Slave Trade

Human Trafficking and the Modern-Day Slave Trade
Human trafficking, or what is known as modern-day slavery, has a global impact on millions of women and young girls around the world. In the United States and abroad, women being abducted and sold into the slave trade is any everyday occurrence that is highly overlooked. The prolonged cycle of the causes and effects of human servitude result in a horrific and mentally scarring trade that millions of men, women, and children specifically are forced to face every day. The growing phenomenon that occurs in underground rings and neighborhood backyards around the world is one of this modern century’s most crucial social issues with a seemingly farfetched solution. The complicated and emotional conflict of human trafficking and sex slavery is an ongoing cycle that is enabled by its causes and emotionally and mentally affects its many victims.
The many factors that lead to the exploitation of young women around the world allow for a gateway to a million dollar industry of organized crime through human trafficking. Among low income or third world countries, a lack of economic stability and physical safety can lead many women to being sold into a life of slavery. As studied by researchers from Africa, that author writes, “Human trafficking like other social ills is associated with levels of poverty in the exploited countries or regions (Onuoha)”. When there is extreme poverty or lack of employment in an area, women become more susceptible to involuntary involvement in rings of organized sex trafficking. The need for jobs can send some women looking for any type of employment and fall into the trap of manipulating perpetrators who coerce women into a life they can later not escape. Although being trapped in a life of sex slavery and trafficked is not voluntary, unemployment and poverty can drive women into a life of prostitution that can later be taken advantage of. For example, “North Korea’s steadily deteriorating...