Human Trafficking: A never ending case William Wilberforces’s movement in 1833 was the spark that lead to the banishment of human trafficking in Great Britain. The result of William Willerforce's movement resulted in the British parliament to passing a bill for banning human trafficking in 1833. After nearly 150 years after Willerforce's movement almost all the countries in the world have now banned slavery. But even though these laws have passed, people are still taken into human trafficking today. Still today we still see this issue and a common definition would be, “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another …show more content…
That human trafficking is based off the abuse of power. The quote. Furthermore, one of the most dedicated and largest anti-trafficking organization in the United States is the “Polaris Project”. Polaris Project figured that, “estimated that 18,000 foreign people are taken into the United States annually. The number of US citizens sold into slavery has increased since Wilberforce’s time and is still an issue today and in so many other countries.” This fact that was found by Polaris Project shows how we have not improved since the first movement against trafficking. There has been no change during all the years that have passed since 1833. Now it something international, and can happen in other countries not only in third world countries like the United States of America. Polaris Project shows the facts of how human trafficking has spread and also how human