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Human trafficking is basically a form of modern-day slavery. This is considered a crime when a trafficker uses force, deception, or coercion to control others into engaging in sex acts or seeking jobs or services against their will. If the person engaging in sexual activity is under 18, it is unnecessary to commit violence, cheating, or coercion (meaning: persuading someone to do something by using force or threats.) Labor trafficking is the use of force, fraud, or tricks to get a person to work with the intention of forced slavery, debt bondage, and more. The national hotline is 1-888-373-7888 (National Human Trafficking Hotline).
Human trafficking is when people are traded/bought for forced labor, sexual slavery, and or commercial sexual exploitation (a sexual action that is traded for something important, usually in order to live). This may involve forced marriage, taking people’s organs, and much more. In 2014, forced labor summed up to an estimated $150 billion per year. There are about 21 million victims of human trafficking trapped, as of 2012. Out of those 21 million people, 14.2 million (68%) are used for labor, and 4.5 million (22%) are involved in sexual events, the other 10% aren’t as common ("Human Trafficking”).
Human trafficking has been a huge problem for millions of victims. Human trafficking is most common in Asia. Once there was an older doctor accused of indecently assaulting a domestic worker; he was only jailed for 30 months. The women assaulted gave evidence that other women had been abused by this elderly doctor as well. Hong Kong planned to fight human trafficking and have better protection for domestic workers in 2018. The plan put in new screening tools and had designated teams to help with the issue. There has been some confusion around the law of forced labor and human trafficking. There have been multiple cases, like the one above, where abusers weren’t punished correctly (“Human Trafficking”).
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