Human trafficking is a multibillion dollar trading businesses targeting the vulnerable , the poor economy , for slavery , forced labor , prostitution , forced marriage , sexual exploitation , including child exploitation . Human trafficking is the second largest organized crime in the world , after illegal drugs .
United Nations report in 2012 noted that 2.4 million people , while the U.S. government estimates that 12.3 million people are victims of human trafficking around the world . As many as 80 percent of them being the object of sexual exploitation or slavery . Approximately 17 percent of the victims of human trafficking into forced labor at home , mine , or factory .
A 9 year old girl working in the hot sun , making bricks from morning to night , seven days a week . He became a victim of human trafficking with his family from Bihar , India , and can not run away , isolated from society . [photo by Kay Chernush for the U.S. State Department ]
United Nations ( UN ) estimates that U.S. $ 32 billion is generated each year from human trafficking . Meanwhile , the business of sex trafficking is the largest with an estimated U.S. $ 27.8 billion is generated each year .
The largest sex trafficking , especially involving children to become sex slaves object . The UN agency for children ( UNICEF ) reported that about 2 million children under 18 years of trafficked every year , most of them are women
who become sex objects in the commercial sex industry is worth millions of dollars . Ironically , about 50-60 percent of children trafficked into sex slaves under the age of 16 years . They are recruited , kidnapped , transferred , for purposes of commercial sex . The children become sex workers being forced, tricked , tortured , and threatened .
Child sex tourism has even become a tourist attraction in a number of countries . Thailand , Cambodia , India , Brazil and Russia are identified as a place of entertainment or a source of transportation for sexual exploitation of children . Although the countries included in the
UN red list or supervision related to human trafficking, the state government authorities do not take action to remove a maximum of child sex trafficking . Many tourists , especially adult men to travel , pay for the sexual services of children in these countries .
Tolerable.
Thailand has long been the most popular sex tourism destination in the world . Thailand 's Health System Research Institute reported that 40 percent of the Thai prostitution involving children . There are no data on the number of prostitutes under 18 years old Thailand but the Thai government estimates about 40,000 children .Trafficking of women in Thailand mainly from poorer areas of Thailand , Myanmar , Cambodia , Laos and China . Thai women are generally sold to Japan for forced into sexual slavery by the low paid .
Although Thailand has legislation states prostitution is illegal . In practice , the behavior is tolerable society . Very open prostitution throughout Thailand , even local officials tend to protect the business.
In Cambodia is estimated at about one-third of all prostitutes are under 18 years old , or about 33,000 children . In 1996 , Cambodia passed legislation combating kidnapping , human trafficking and human exploitation , including prostitution discussed . However , the law does not specifically define or prohibit child prostitution in Cambodia , which sets the age of consent is 15
years .
In India , the federal police reported 1.2 million children are believed to be involved in prostitution . There were three million prostitutes in India , an estimated 40 percent are children . Sex tourism has become a serious concern of government of India , the authority estimates that 90 percent of human trafficking in India take place at home .
Brazil has the record as the worst in the world of sex trafficking . Brazil has become the world's most popular destination for sex tourism , after Thailand . UNICEF estimates that about 250,000 children become prostitutes . Most of the sex workers come from slum children who need money to live . The latest trend is more surprising that a number of expeditions " fishing " was organized to conduct child sex tourism for tourists from the U.S. and Europe .
Legal age prostitutes in Brazil 18 years old , but many female sex workers in Brazil are under 18 years old . A 13-year -old girl sold for sex only U.S. $ 6 to sex tourists in Brazil .
The good news , in recent years to prepare Brazil to host the World Cup , local authorities , such as the city of Ceara state that sex tourism is prohibited . Every week , dozens of military vehicles and federal police forces conducting searches on the streets in the red district , raided motels , hotels and brothels , and arrest the perpetrators , as well as bringing women into the shelter . Unfortunately the action was not followed by the cities throughout Brazil .
In Europe , Russia became the center , source , destination and transit point for human trafficking in Europe and shipped to various countries in Asia , and other parts of the world . Not just women , men too are victims of Russian modern slavery . The UN says about 800,000 women are trafficked each year outside Russia . Moscow Government has little attempt to stop it because the judge as a form of slavery instead . Russia has long been suppressed by the European Union to tighten its borders to prevent trafficking .
Resistance .
Various advocacy and the fight against human trafficking , especially the elimination of sexual exploitation of children has been running for more than two decades all over the world by international and local humanitarian agencies . Politics and state policy initiatives to be key in the fight against human trafficking . Australia is the first country to introduce legislation punishing citizens engage in sexual activity with children outside the country , in 1994 . Subject to a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison when engaging in sex with a child under the age of 12 years .Currently there are at least 38 countries have extraterritorial laws are used to punish their citizens for crimes committed during child sex tourism trip . The World Tourism Organization create a task force to combat sex tourism .
In 2005 , a total of 200 travel companies from 21 countries have signed a global code of conduct for the protection of children from sexual exploitation in travel and tourism.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) to investigate and arrest child sex tourists . In 2003, ICE successfully captured more than 11,000 child sex exploitation offenders , including 1,100 outside the U.S. . The U.S. government itself reported 25 percent of child sex tourists are U.S. citizens .
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However , the resistance of child sex trafficking is still very small . UNICEF notes that sexual activity is often regarded as a private matter , making communities reluctant to act and intervene in cases of sexual exploitation . Such attitudes make children far more vulnerable to sexual exploitation .Globalization is also becoming increasingly difficult resistance factor because the Internet provides an efficient global networking tool for individuals to share information on destinations and procurement of child sex tourism . As a result , the tourism industry of child pornography , sex and human trafficking still growing rapidly .
Globally , the absence of strong regulatory and police training to combat trafficking . Many state governments are not doing enough measures to reduce the demand for forced labor , commercial sexual behavior , and child sex tourism . In fact , in the U.S. only 10 percent of police stations have a protocol for dealing with trafficking .
Tragically , only one to two percent of human trafficking victims rescued . Only 1 in 100,000 Europeans involved in trafficking punished . Many people are not aware of the practice of human rights violations in their city .
Cherif Bassiouni , a professor from DePaul University , Chicago , strongly insinuating that human trafficking is a human rights issue in which the government has said so much , but so little is done to address it .
" Law in the big world criminalize prostitutes and other victims of trafficking , but almost never criminalize the perpetrators of the crime because without them it would not happen , " he said .
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