Solution for Human Trafficking

Solution for Human Trafficking

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Human trafficking occurs around us everyday. In fact, modern-day human trafficking is ten times greater than trans-Atlanta slave trade was in the 19th century.. This is the third largest trading industry in term of profit in the global. 700,000 to 2,000,000 women and children are trafficked yearly worldwide and approximately 2,000 to 6,000 women and children are trafficked in daily basis. Ultimately, how do we solve this worldwide tragedy?

Some people advocate that countries who have human trafficking issues should work together with neighbor country to fight human trafficking. Yet, this isn’t pragmatic. For instance, China and Vietnam decided to fight this crime together, but they’ve had limited success. The Chinese have only rescued 1,800 Vietnam trafficking victims on the China-Vietnam border between 2001 and 2005 meaning only 450 victims were rescued a year. There are far more victims who haven’t been rescued from the government than who have. Moreover, prosecuting trafficker with neighbor country isn’t the ultimate way to solve this issue, since there will be numerous other human traffickers trafficking other victims while we prosecute one human trafficker.

The ultimate ways to solve this controversial issue is by educating these victims and creating better job opportunities for them. Since the victims of human trafficking are typically teenagers between the ages of 15 to 17. Therefore, we should definitely go into high schools and educate high school student about human trafficking to raise awareness of human trafficking. However, human traffic education wouldn’t just be limited to teenagers; women factory workers need to be educated as well. Since women factory workers have limited wages to survive on, human trafficker usually coax these workers with a better job in another country, yet they usually end up sold by human trafficker to factory owner as a slave. For instance, Moe, lives in Hinthada Township, comes from a family who struggles to survive on only $2 a day. She was persuaded by a neighbor to work in China in order to support her family financially. Yet, she ended up being sold by a human trafficker to a factory owner for 5,000 dollars. This example demonstrates that this victim clearly didn’t have enough knowledge about human trafficking. According to Nwe, director of Best Industrial Company Ltd, "We warn them that many perpetrators of human trafficking are close to their victims. They may be relatives or their neighbors." If she learned the fact that human traffickers are usually people that you trust or someone like your neighbor, she wouldn’t necessary trust that neighbor and set her up in that situation.

In addition the other way to solve this issue is to make sure everyone have a decent job. "Human trafficking happens when there are no decent jobs. We need to create decent jobs for them here in the country", said Nwe. Human trafficker usually target people with limited of wealth and people who aren’t satisfy with their current job. Victims of human trafficking tended to be people from poverty country. Often time these victims are receiving limited wage or even unemployment which is why they are more likely to be coax by human trafficker if they offer a better job opportunity in other country. Therefore, the most pragmatic way to solve this issue is providing people with a better job. If people have a decent job that pay off their living, people less likely to believe human trafficker when they tried to coax them with a better job opportunity.

Lastly, human trafficking is inevitably a global issue that worth our attention. Tremendous amount of people are suffering in tragic. The only two ways to prevent human trafficking are educating potential victims about human trafficking and creating better job opportunity for these potential victims.

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