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‘Trafficking is any practice that involves moving people within and across local or national borders for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Trafficking may be the result of force, coercion, manipulation, deception, abuse of authority, initial consent, family pressure, past and present family and community violence, economic deprivation, or other conditions of inequality for women and children’
(Donna M. Hughes, 2001, quoted from the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women)
International human trafficking of women and girls (and, to a lesser extent, boys) into sex slavery is one of today’s biggest human rights crises. This trade has been titled the ‘Natasha’ trade,
‘Human trafficking is the third largest criminal industry in the world, outranked only by arms and drug dealing’. Human trafficking is, by some, expected to take over drug trafficking as the second largest criminal industry in the world within the next decades. This is due to its high profitability, low investigation rate and low prosecution rate.
Sourced from: http://annabrixthomsen.com/2013/01/25/sex-trafficking-will-end-in-equal-money-capitalism-day-168/
Human trafficking or sex trafficking is global in nature; ‘Women are trafficked to, from, and through every region in the world’ (Donna M. Hughes, 2001). ‘This exploitation is not dependent on nationality, race or religion. It is also not dependent on economic or social standing. For example, a working man from Cambodia may purchase the use of a child sex slave trafficked from Vietnam for $1. Another Vietnamese girl of the same age will be charged out at $200 – often more if she is still a virgin – to a European businessman in Hong Kong’ ( ).
‘Countries with large sex industries create the demand for women; countries where traffickers easily recruit women provide the supply’ (Donna M. Hughes, 2001). This means that it’s the wealthy, developed countries who are keeping this industry alive. It’s the military, businessmen, ex-patriates, tourists, and Internet pornography subscribers, whom pay significantly more for the use of a sex slaves that keep the industry extremely profitable for traffickers.
Human trafficking not only results in the harm of the women involved but also derive numerous global complications such as threats to border integrity, as millions of people transported across national borders under false pretences, threats to human health, through the spread of HIV/AIDS and other STDs to the victims, their clients, their clients’ wives, and so on, and also threats to national and international security, as it is believed that many of the world largest sex traffickers and connected to organised crime groups.
Sourced from: The “Natasha” Trade: Transnational Sex Trafficking
Sex trafficking is on a global scale, trafficked women can be found almost anywhere in the world. ‘For decades, the primary sending countries were in Asia. But the collapse of the Soviet Union opened up a pool of millions of women from which traffickers can recruit. Former Soviet republics such as Belarus, Latvia, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine have become major suppliers of women to sex industries all over the world. In the sex industry today, the most popular and valuable women are from Russia and Ukraine’ (Donna M. Hughes, 2001).
For more information check out The “Natasha” Trade: Transnational Sex Trafficking, by Donna M. Hughes, 2001.
Sourced from: http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/
Not for sale is an organisation led by David Batstone whose mission states;
‘Using business creation, supply chain evaluation and aftercare aid around the globe. By creating enterprise for vulnerable communities, offering social services to survivors and those at-risk to human trafficking, and evaluating the use of forced labour in mainstream supply chains, Not For Sale works to make sure no one is for sale’.
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