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Megan Kimball
Ms. Fougerousse
English 10H Rough Draft
23 November 2015

International Human Rights Research final draft

"I wish to forget, but this is impossible. This experience will remain an eternal burden." A victim
of sex trafficking quotes. Every day several women, children, and men are being tricked into a
world of the unthinkable. Many victims believe that they are escaping into a better life but later
realize it was all just a lie . Men, women, and children all over the world, including Africa are
abducted and trafficked into many sorts of forced labor. They often find themselves trapped in a
world of abuse, manipulation, and addiction.
I feel like theyve taken my smile and I can never have it back. Lithuanian woman trafficked to
London quotes. The trauma associated with trafficking and its psychological effects can be
devastating, after being tricked into a world of sex, drugs, and abuse. Traffickers may also use
forceful tactics leaving their victims feeling worthless. As a result, victims can lose their sense of
identity and security. Psychological symptoms can occur over a long time even after victims
return home. Some women who go through trafficking experience loss of appetite, which leads
to weight loss and fatigue.
Women are often forced to have relations with unsanitary males, therefore, women are exposed
to STDS You always remember what has happened to you, you are not clean anymore like you
were before, a victim quotes from, stolen smiles: a summary report on the physical and

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psychological health consequences of women and adolescents trafficked in Europe. Trafficking

takes an enormous toll on a victims mental and physical health.
When most people think of trafficking they think of only women being sex slaves, while that is
not always the situation, it is far broader. Men, women, and children are often exposed to the
dangerous world of human trafficking. According to the Global Report on Trafficking in
Persons the most common form of human trafficking is sexual exploitation of women and
children. The second most common form of human trafficking is forced labour of men. Only
about twenty percent of children worldwide are exposed to trafficking . But in some parts of the
Africa and the Mekong region children are most commonly exposed to trafficking ; up to 100%
of children in parts of West Africa are exposed to sex and other forms of trafficking. Ugandas
Interpol office reported that Ugandan women are trafficked to India, Afghanistan, Indonesia, and
the United Arab Emirates as sex slaves. According to the Trafficking In Persons Report, June
2013; Ugandan children as young as seven are exploited in forced labor within the country.
Forced child labor mostly occurs in rural areas doing many forms of labour, in some case
children are forced into prostitution. According to the report, in Kenya, women, beach boys,
and sometimes a childs own parents push children into prostitution in coastal areas to receive
payments from tourists. All genders, and ages are exposed into the dangerous world of human
trafficking, and experience all different situations.

As UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson put it, Trafficking is
inherently discriminatory. In the case of trafficking into the global sex industry, we are talking
about men from relatively prosperous countries paying for the sexual services of women and
girls and sometimes man and boys from less wealthy countries. This is more than a labour

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rights issue or an issue of unequal development. It is a basic human rights issue because it
involves such a massive and harmful form of discrimination. There has been not a lot of talk
about weither skin color or forms of discrimination affect the probability of becoming a victim..
However, when you look at the women who are a victim of trafficking, it becomes more clear of
discrimination.. Moreover, skin color and economics may not be an only factor of what women
are targeted.

Human trafficking is a worldwide phenomenon. The US State Department measures each nation
for the efforts to stop the trafficking and forced labor. tr. Each nation is measured against the tier
system. Tier one is for countries who have deleted out most of trafficking and forced labour . Tier
two means that a country does not completely meet the standards put in place but are trying and
making a dent in the end to trafficking. Tier two Watch List is for countries that have made
serious efforts but still has a big problem with it, so the government watches them. Tier three is
for the countries that arent trying to stop trafficking. Africa and Asia have been ranked as a
variety of tier 2, watch list and tier 3 throughout the country. Russia has completely fallen to the
ranking of tier 3.

Throughout the world men, women, and children are tricked and forced into a world of the
unthinkable. After being tricked into a world of sex, drugs, and abuse, victims experience a
trauma that can be truly devastating. human trafficking goes deeper than just women sex slaves..
Race and other forms of discrimination contribute to the likelihood of women and girls who
become victims of trafficking. Human trafficking is beyond a worldwide phenomenon. Gender,

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race, ethnicity and location all contribute to a victim being abducted into the world of human
trafficking.