Seven Issues In The Fight Against Human Trafficking
We need to recognize them to win the war
Sex trafficking doesn’t happen as much as you think. Labor trafficking receives less media recognition.
A stain on humanity. Both destroy lives in horrific ways.
Trafficking in Person (TIP) is gross and awful. Specific elements allow its proliferation and I’ll get into them below.
Labor trafficking is more common than sexual exploitation
Focusing only on sex trafficking can easily blind one’s eyes to labor bondage. However, labor bondage makes up 70 percent of trafficking cases.
Labor TIP ensnares about 28 million people yearly and the numbers keep rising.
However, the public focuses only on sex trafficking.
I’m not splitting hairs. Any human exploitation is abominable. The centralization of sex trafficking, while ignoring labor trafficking doesn’t help.
We’re not spending enough
The money spent on anti-trafficking endeavors is far less than required. One researcher estimated that it would take 100 years to stop TIP at current global TIP funding levels.
