Human Trafficking

    Slavery which is a term used to describe the use of non-paid worker who is forced to do certain jobs under pressure and unwillingness. In these modern days, people might think that this issue does not exist anymore since the amendment of human right laws consists of the elimination of slavery. However, things are not as perfect as what we can imagine, slavery did not disappear but they undergo “mutation” and became human trafficking. Human trafficking is known as modern slavery and stated the worsen situation of slavery.  Price of $40,000 dollars per slaves depreciates to $100 dollar per slaves from 1800’s to 2010 is the best evidence to convince you that “slavery” this issue is still exist and even worsen.  Based on the talk by Nicole, she stated that total human trafficking case that happen in present day are approximately 27 million cases and most of the victims are woman and minorities.

    Statistics proven that the United States had the second large population of human trafficking compared to Germany. This issue mostly involved the minorities which had a hard life in surviving and forced find jobs illegally in foreign countries which they believe that it will provide them a better future or being cheated by false contract due to false information and culture differences. Moreover, some minority involved in human trafficking is due to violence whereby the illegal organization threatened the victims or victim’s family to work without paid. These are the ways how illegal organizations expand their business.

   In Uzbekistan, it is the government who amend the law to encourage slavery where children had to work in cotton farm as a slave without paid when they reached certain age. This helped the country to be the 3^rd largest cotton exporter in the world but it causes a drastic drop of education in the country. Thus, as a consumer, the best we can do is to stop consuming goods made by slaves to strike the growth of slavery and human trafficking in the world. Every human has the right to choose their destinations so do the slaves.