Human trafficking is the unlawful act transporting or coercing people in the order to benefit from their work or service, typically in the form of forced labour or sexual exploitation.
WHO defines “human trafficking as recruitment ,transportation ,transfer , harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of forced or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception , of the abuse of power or position of vulnerability or of the giving, or receiving payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.”
Differentiating between trafficked persons ,extremely vulnerable migrants,and exploited labourers is very difficult, because of it illegal, invisible nature, and severity of trafficked activities. Even though men, women and children are trafficked, trafficking for sex work and labour ( domestic servants) are mostly women and children.
In Kenya human trafficking is very rampart many individuals are sold for labour and sex slaves in countries such as India, Italy, UK and Saudi Arabia and many others. Nairobi has become the centre for Smuggling and human trafficking for East Africa community i.e Tanzania and Uganda.
Causes of human trafficking
The main cause of human trafficking are ; poverty and poor living conditions, unemployment, immigration policies , environmental conditions, fractured / disfunctional families, war and natural disasters.
Effects of human trafficking on victims.
1) Poor menta health conditions which leads to depression, PTSD ( post traumatic stress disorder), anxiety disorders, suicidal thoughts and somatic conditions including physical pain and dysfunction which are caused by abuse from perpetrators.
2) Substance abuse and alcohol ( forced or coerced).
3) Social isolation through emotional manipulation through use of manipulation or fake promises.
4) Economic exploitation. The trafficked individuals have no decision on what they earn, they render the payment to the traffickers who are their bosses through threats of being reported to immigration offices or imprisonment. They leave their countries with hope improving their lifestyle but the face utter disappointment.
5) Legal insecurities. The victims of human trafficking are seen as perpetrators of migration, labour and prostitution laws hence held in detention centres or even imprisoned as illegal immigrants.
6) Those who manage to survive lack emotional support and even health services, and even face stigma from individuals of the country of origin hence diminishes their self esteem and hence may choose or fall into trap of being trafficked again or even become traffickers themselves to run from societal criticism.
According to the United Nations protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking of persons. ” Each state party shall consider implementing measures to provide for the physical, psychological and social recovery of victims of trafficking in persons…in particular in provision of medical, psychological and material support”.
Let’s fight this illegal multi business human trafficking and show the value of persons as priceless.
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I have noticed over the decades that the strong work ethic practiced by new immigrants and migrants is exceptional, particularly in the produce harvesting sector. It’s hump-busting hard work that almost all second or third (and so forth) generation Canadians won’t tolerate for themselves, myself included.
Every time I observe them I feel a bit guilty, since, considering it from purely a human(e) level, I see not why they should have to toil so for minimal pay and not also I?
I can truly imagine such labourers being fifty to a hundred percent more productive than their born-and-reared-here Canadian counterparts.
To be clear, however, I’m not implying that a strong work ethic is a trait racially genetically inherited by one generation from a preceding generation, etcetera. It’s an admirable culturally determined factor, though also in large part motivated by the said culture’s internal and surrounding economic and political conditions.
I’ve also found that ‘Canadian values’ assimilation often means the unfortunate acquisition of a distasteful yet strong sense of entitlement.
Not to be misunderstood, I don’t favour importing very-low-wage labour from abroad while residents here remain unemployed, something I see as an unethical yet government-sanctioned business practise. Still, I too often hear similar complaints that are actually based on thinly veiled bigotry.
As for the temporary foreign workers, I believe that once they’ve resided here for a number of decades, their strong work ethics and higher-than-average productivity, unfortunately, gradually diminishes as these motivated labourers’ descendant generations’ young people become accustomed to the relatively slackened Western way of life.
One can already witness this effect in such youth getting caught up in much of our overall urban/suburban liberal culture—e.g. attire, lingo, nightlife, as well as work.
I’m not equating it to the slavery the above post is revealing/describing, but I’ve observed over the last few decades the very hard work that foreign temporary worker migrants perform here in Canada, notably in the produce harvesting sector.
It’s one of typically hump-busting work that almost all post second or third generation Canadians won’t tolerate for themselves.
Every time I observe them I feel a bit guilty, since, considering it from purely a human(e) level, I see not why they should have to toil so for minimal pay and not also I?
I can truly imagine such labourers being fifty to a hundred percent more productive than their born-and-reared-here Canadian counterparts.
To be clear, however, I’m not implying that a strong work ethic is a trait racially/genetically inherited by one generation from a preceding generation, etcetera. It’s an admirable culturally determined factor, though also in large part motivated by the said culture’s internal and surrounding economic and political conditions.
(Frank Sterle Jr.)
That’s a sure thing