THE VICTIMS
The victims of this crime are men and women, adults, children, and foreign nationals. they could be anyone.
According to the UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons from February 2009:
Women make up 66 percent of 21,400 victims profiled in 2006
Girls are another 13 percent of that total (total of 79 percent).
The vulnerable position of women in society is part of what leads to women being trafficked.
Who Is More Likely To Be a Victim?
Runaway and homeless youth
Foreign nationals
Individuals with a history of trauma or abuse
Women
Children
Teenagers
Men
People involved with drugs
What are the effects on victims?
Oftentimes victims...
do not have access to proper food, hygiene or health care
leaving them to suffer a number of health complications
become more vulnerable to potentially life-threatening STIs such as HIV/AIDS.
issues such as trauma, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), shame and depression
unable to engage socially or reach out for help
THE TRAFFICKERS
Traffickers range from small-time, solo operators to loose networks of criminals, to highly sophisticated criminal organizations that operate internationally. (Human Rights First)
Traffickers are farmers, contractors, physicians, and patients in need of transplants.
You can see predators in your everyday life, predators can be family or relatives, your peers, members of a gang or a cartel, or your neighbors or friends.
Action Done by The Traffickers
1.RECRUITMENT/ABDUCTION. Victims are recruited into slavery by fraud, force or coercion. Exploiters often lure victims with the promise of a better life – for example with guarantees of employment, education or travel. For recruitment purposes, exploiters often use employment and travel agencies, or family and friendship connections. Other exploiters use force or coercion, abducting victims directly or threatening victims or their families with harm if they do not comply.
2.TRANSFER AND TRANSPORTATION TO A POINT OF EXPLOITATION. Once a victim is recruited or abducted, they are often transferred from the point of recruitment or abduction to a destination where they will be exploited for labor or sex. This movement can be across town, within a country’s borders, or across borders, and can take place by land, sea or air. In some instances, victims are also transported as cargo -- typically by truck or boat. While the term “trafficking” suggests movement, a victim can be trafficked into forced labor without even leaving his or her own home.
3.EXPLOITATION. Finally, victims arrive at the location where their exploitation will take place, whether it is for commercial sex or labor. The exploitation of human beings can take place in any market where there is a demand for commercial sex or cheap labor: victims are often exploited in the agricultural industry, private households, beauty parlors, nail salons, cleaning companies, restaurants, and beyond.
(human right first)
THE METHODS
People in Nepal are being forced to sell their kidneys to get money for them to be able to survive due to a natural disaster and poverty.
Most women and girls are vulnerable and also suffered from physical or mental abuse because they are promised so many things like the hope for happiness and love, being able to have nice things or the hope of having a place to live in.
Many are manipulated or forced to do it, and many are forced by their own parents or family members.
The traffickers will try everything they can to lure them in and make them a part of their so-called business, but not everyone thinks the predators are at fault because some blame it on the victims.
