Why Human Trafficking should be abolished

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The world I envision is a world where women and girls are viewed for their great potential and who they choose to be. In magazines and on television, we see the majority of Caucasian women with ideal beauty and less of Polynesian or Haitian women with natural beauty.

Thanks to the media, everyday women are objectified. Whatever happened to inner beauty and inner strength? I am not saying that we should throw away our lipsticks or eyeshadow pallets. I admit that I enjoy watching makeup videos sometimes and makeup is a form of art. What I am saying is that women are not objects. Women and girls are human beings. There has been discourses over racism and/or sexism experienced in the minority communities.
The one social justice that I am passionate about is human trafficking that targets women and children.  They are targeted and kidnapped for their bodies while their voices are silenced especially when they are placed in a foreign land. It’s an international issue that affects millions worldwide.

There are many reasons why people migrate and sometimes there are unintentional ones too. Humans interact and glocalization, hybridization, homogenization, or resistance occur (not in that particular order). Unfortunately, with that, comes consequences with little or no impact on the elites or entrepreneurs.

5 Consequences of human trafficking:
  1. “The United States continues to patrol other countries’ efforts to combat human trafficking, even though it is in violation of international law.” This shows how the U.S. can not even solve its own domestic issues (Franco 423).
  2. “In the United States, 32 states have not decriminalized child victims and no state has decriminalized adult victims of sex trafficking” (Franco 432).
  3. “When cases are discovered, authorities may resolve the case by using non-human trafficking statutes for a variety of reasons. For instance, authorities may prosecute someone for domestic violence, alien harboring, distribution of narcotics, trespassing,or assault, when the true underlying crime is human trafficking” (Richmond 14).
  4. The number of human trafficking victims (men, women, and children) is higher than the approximately 9.5 million of slaves trafficked during the Transatlantic slave trade that durated 488 years (Richmond 15).
  5. There is a lack of police training in identifying the difference between human trafficking and prostitution as well as identifying victims. For instance, “if a law enforcement office or concerned citizen assumes that human trafficking only exists if someone from another country is the victim or perpetrator, many cases will not be identified” (Richmond 22).

In other words, human trafficking takes a toll on physical, emotional, and psychological states of human beings. There are more negative aspects gained than benefits in the sex industry.

It is time to empower and enlighten women like us. No more human trafficking! Human trafficking is immoral and degrade women’s rights and self esteem.

I wrote a quote that came to my mind as I was writing: Stereotyping leads to Scapegoating. The police tend to criminalize the victims and arrest them even though it is not the victims' fault. I believe there should be an end to this stereotype. 

Overall, it is disappointing that the U.S. has not fix its domestic human trafficking issues while patrolling other countries' human trafficking issues. There needs to be a change now especially since now it is 2017.

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