IBRAHIM FATIMA
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Human trafficking and Sex trafficking is modern day slavery, young girls are taken away from their homes, away from their families and their lives are literally taken out of their hands, they are denied the opportunity to make their own choices in lives. Sex trafficking is Human Trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation. It is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world. Young girls are literally victims of these circumstances who are forced into selling themselves for the selfish interests and desires of their victimizers.
Most victims find themselves in abusive situations from which escape is either difficult or dangerous. It is very disheartening just to think of the trauma these victims are going through, they have no idea of what is being done to them. The use of force on these victims can cause serious psychological trauma which they might never recover from. These victims families have to bear a great loss in which no one will be able to help them out, they suffer great sorrows. These victims may also suffer from diseases like HIV/AIDS, Drug addiction, Malnutrition, and social ogtracism.
Trafficked victims are typically taken to brothels, strip clubs, massage parlours or hotels and prostituted on the streets or forced to participate in pornography. Women and girls are mostly preys due to their vulnerability, many of these girls are still girls when they enter prostitution with no way out.
Most people who find themselves victims either want to escape from poverty or improve their lives and support their families better, they fall victims by being offered a well paid job abroad or in another region. Human and Sex Trafficking is happening all around us everyday and many people don’t realise it. Some of the most horrific stories of abuse at the hands of traffickers have happened right in our own backyards