Human Trafficking – More Than What You Think
Feb 22, 2010- When most people hear the term human trafficking, it conjures images of young women – girls actually – being held against their will and forced into a life of prostitution or slave labor.
Many think about the women that come to the US looking for a better life only to have someone confiscate their VISA and force them to work as a nanny or house cleaner for little or no pay.
This is all correct – to a point.
The US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), which certifies victims of human trafficking, estimates 17,500 people are trafficked into the United States each year, with a vast majority never identified as victims.
The 2009 US State Department human trafficking report (for 2008) states that almost half (45%) of the 286 certified adult victims of human trafficking were male. Showing a 6% increase from 2006.
A spokesman for the DHHS, Kenneth Wolfe said the increase in the percentage of male victims is due mainly to an uptick in labor-trafficking cases.
Wolfe further explains that seventy-six percent of all human-trafficking victims certified in 2008 were victims of labor trafficking, while sex trafficking accounted for 17 percent. Five percent of victims were subject to both forms of trafficking.
Al Martin is the US/Canadian news editor for Men’s News Daily and the publisher of The Man on the Street.
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Another fact that will surpise most people….
UNITED NATIONS — Surprisingly, the perpetrators behind human trafficking around the world are often women, the U.N. reported Thursday.
Women are the majority of traffickers in almost a third of the 155 nations the U.N. surveyed. They accounted for more than 60 percent of the human trafficking convictions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Al
Thanks for posting that.
You will NEVER hear the truth like what you posted there in any MSM source!
Thanks Jim.
Al
i will say why i dont believe any reports on human trafficking.
it means people are being smuggled across borders or to different places within a country.
not always is there a disctinction made between actual slaves, and people who pay the traffickers and have themselves go work some place they couldnt work legally.
this is parcticularly true of prostitutes. i am sure many are enslaved but the numbers always include women who are simply not qualified to do other jobs, or have some sort financial problem.
do gooders always believe they need to help people but they always fail at seeing their subject as independent moral agents. because of this perception everything you hear about human trafficking and prostitutes, especially regarding third-world countries is always exaggerated or distorted.
often times there's also a focus on women, did you now that many young men from the countries bordering thailand are exploited. sometimes they are not being paid their wages (i've personally come across such a man), on fishing boats off thailand's coast they are often just thrown over-board should they get sick.
there is a side to human trafficking that you dont get to hear. it is all just to generate more guilt. it is either white people exploiting people of colour, or men exploiting women. that is much too simple.
shatteredman, many women work in human trafficking, and also as pimps. until recent years in india, all pimps were women. in south-east asia, most pimps are women, even if there is a male boss, or pimp, there is also a woman manager. or the woman is the boss and hires guards. i've seen this personally because i used to frequent such places. women also play a big role in recruiting prostitutes.
start seeing women as free moral agents who can control their own lives, and if their lives are being messed up, it is just as likely the exploiter is a woman. thx for reading this. stop using other peoples' misery to justify your hatred of men.
@ johannes
IF you actually READ what I wrote, you will find I was pointing out that is is NOT men that are responsible for the problems women have but more often than not, it is women who do the abusing and mistreating. How that makes me hate men, I have no idea but I am sure you can enlighten me.
I am actually getting use to being called a man hater and a woman hater, often in the same forum. In reality…I support FAMILY rights be they for men OR for women. I guess wanting people to be treated equally means I hate both genders because I do not let the one I hate be on top of everything? Does that get it?