The history of human trafficking
Human trafficking was not a new phenomenon in our modern societies, in fact, between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, at least 10 million people were enslaved from their countries in Africa and transported to both Europe and the Americas as part of the Atlantic slave trade. This trade was driven by strong demand for workers to work on farms in the Americas. In the end, human trafficking became an important part of an international trading system in which Europeans and North Americans exchanged goods for human straight the West and West Central Atlantic coasts of Africa.
In 1502, the first African slaves were traded in the New World. In the 1600s, African workers began to use in the British Caribbean …show more content…
A number of women participate in human trafficking, not only as victims but also as traffickers. Demand for commercial sex is flourishing worldwide, where it is supported by prostitution and pornography.
Every year, sexual exploitation affects millions of women and children all over the world, where transnational sex trafficking takes place across national borders, which demanding global cooperation to prosecute sex offenders and rescue victims of trafficking. The international nature of sex trafficking makes it very difficult to know how many people are actually trafficked. (5)
According to global estimates of modern slavery, the number of victims of forced sexual exploitation is estimated at 3.8 million, as well as, in 2016, 1 million children who were victims of commercial sexual exploitation. The clear majority of the victims were women and girls by 99%. More than seven in ten victims have been exploited in the Asia-Pacific region. Followed by Europe and Central Asia by …show more content…
child soldiers
One of the most unfortunate developments in recent years has been the increasing the use of young children to be soldiers, the proliferation of light weapons became one of the reasons for that. In 1997, Cape Town principles defined child soldier as any person under 18 years of age who is part of any kind of regular or irregular armed force or armed group in any capacity, including but not limited to cooks, porters, messengers and anyone accompanying such groups, other than family members, this also includes girls recruited for sexual purposes and for forced marriage.
The recruitment of children is an illegal global phenomenon that occurs through force or coercion to exploit children in areas of conflict, such practices are committed by some government forces, paramilitary organizations or rebel groups. Child soldiers are often abducted from their homes and brutally tortured to use them as fighters or use them to act as porters, cooks, guards, servants, messengers or spies. While young girls are forced to marry or have sex with male combatants. (20) In 2008, the Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA) was signed, which came into effect in 2009. This law requires the publication of an annual report that lists foreign governments or armed groups that recruit and use child soldiers. According to Child Soldiers International Annual Report 2016-17, in the world, there are countries that use of young children to be soldiers, these countries including Afghanistan, Central