Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is a major issue around the world; however, the United States is one of the transit and destination countries for human trafficking. In my opinion main reason for human trafficking relates to prostitution. Women are brought into the US from all over the world for example, South America and South East Asia for sexual purposes. As I was doing some research, I came across something shocking. That the United States government began monitoring trafficking in people and it mainly focused on trafficking women and girls for sexual purposes, basically prostitution. Recently it has been monitoring not only women but also men, children for forced labor and other purposes, as well as commercial sexual exploitation. Children are also used as construction workers, and in sweatshops.

The United States State Department has issued laws in order to ban or limit prostitution and human trafficking. They have granted millions of dollars to organizations that combat trafficking issues all over the world. Such programs help spread the information on dangers of human trafficking and protect those groups from abuse and violence. It also spreads knowledge of economic opportunities in order to recognize risks of being trafficked. The US has also assisted other countries and passed many policies and legislation's to outnumber such horrible problem.