Name: Jordan Watson

ID# 20171642

Human Trafficking
Trafficking in human beings is a social problem of our time. Among the major violations of
human rights in the world, today is the actual crime that has many names: “white slavery”,
“human trafficking”, “trafficking in persons”. Human trafficking is a global problem that
affects the lives of millions of people in almost every country of the world, and which
deprives them of their human dignity. As one of the most disgusting crimes in the world,
human trafficking is misleading and makes a sacrifice of women, men and children from all
over the world, every day causing them to be exploited. Although the most known form of
human trafficking is sexual exploitation, people are also trafficked for forced labour and as
donors for illegal transplantation of organs.
Human trafficking is a global phenomenon. It greatly affects every country in a state of
political and economic transition or post-conflict stress, which basically is every countries
origin for universal human trafficking. This phenomenon also affects both the economically
more developed countries of destination and countries of transit. People who live in difficult
conditions, are attracted by opportunity to improve their life in richer and more developed
countries, at the same time in the destination countries the demand for low-paid workers in
irregular employment sectors, as well as legal employment sectors with low wages are
increasing.
The term “human trafficking” evolved over the centuries and transformed considering
changing eras, development and humanization of society and the revision of the existing
moral canons. The phenomenon of buying and selling people cannot claim to be a new
phenomenon for mankind, but today it is called sometimes like that. The problem of human
trafficking has deep historical and ethno-national roots. At different stages of development of
mankind attitudes towards human trafficking was quite liberal. Later, the human community
realized the impossibility of existing this form of using a person that discriminated and
humiliated dignity. There was a perennial struggle with this disgraceful phenomenon that
does not stop till this day.