Human Trafficking Good Vs Bad - 1199 Words

Jamison Harper Govt. 2305 Project April 6, 2016 Spring 2016 Human Trafficking: Good vs Bad Introduce The topic I chose to broaden my research on for my project is Human Trafficking. Human trafficking, in my opinion, is a controversial topic to have a discussion on. As a whole, human trafficking is controversial because there are some individuals that do not view trafficking as illegal (different word choice). Some individuals view trafficking as legal. Later on in the paper I will explain in more detail why it is viewed as illegal, legal, and why someone might believe this. My opinion of the history of human trafficking was decreasingly smaller in a sense because not many people knew it was going on or some just pretended that it did not occur. When I was collecting research for my topic over human trafficking I came across an interesting statistic. In the article, The History of Human Trafficking, the statistic states this: As of 2012 (the latest available data on human trafficking), 40,177 cases of trafficking were reported in the 2010-2012 period—and these are only th e known cases. Broken down, it is a total of 13,392 persons trafficked a year; 36 trafficked every day; an average of one person trafficked an hour. 152 nationalities have been trafficked to 124 nations. 49% of the trafficking victims are women, and 33% are children. 21% of total trafficking victims, or 8,437 victims, are young girls. After reading this statistic, it is alarming to know that there areShow MoreRelatedNegative Effects Of Social Media1410 Words   |  6 Pagespolitical views, who are frequent social media users. 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