Trafficking in Women - Sex Exploitation in Global Proportions

Trafficking in women is one form of human trafficking with women as the victims of the crime. It is closely associated with the sexual exploitation of women and is one of the ever-increasing criminal phenomena in present society.

Every year, thousands of women are being trafficked from developing countries all over the world to more industrialized and developed nations. The women are taken either by force, intimidation, misrepresentation, or deception of the women and their families who are hoping for a better economic condition and employment in other countries.

Trafficked women are sold as sex slaves, prostitutes, or mail-order brides. They are also forced into sweat labor shops and domestic servitude. As such, trafficking in women is one of the worst and highly-escalating forms of modern slavery.

A typical scenario of trafficking in women involves an agent or broker who arranges the travel and so-called employment of the women. After turning over the women to the employer, the women discover that they have been deceived and that the nature of the employment is not what was agreed upon. The women victims then find themselves in situations that are difficult and usually dangerous to get out of.

Such brokers deceive their victims by offering low-skilled jobs such as waitresses or domestic workers to lure the women. There are cases when the relatives of the victims become the traffickers themselves.

Trafficking in Women as a Consequence of Poverty

Human trafficking is a direct violation of human rights and its victims do not only include women but children and men as well. Yet, a great majority of the victims of human trafficking are women since in most parts of the worlds, particularly in developing countries, women are more affected by poverty than men.

In places where employment is scarce, men are more likely to get jobs than women. As a result, women are more prone to trafficking as they seek assistance to find employment in other places and traffickers are bound to take advantage of their desperate condition.

Trafficking in women in recent years has since become a gender-biased violence and has caught the attention of the United Nations, Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), and numerous women activist movements.

Several research and case studies have been conducted and continue to be conducted to investigate the depths trafficking in women had reached in the modern society.

The following facts and figures present a picture of how deeply rooted trafficking in women and children has become.

• Trafficking in women earns an estimated 7 billion dollars every year.
• Around 700,000 to 4 million women and children become victims of trafficking annually for prostitution, labor and other forms of exploitation.
• Victims of trafficking operations also become victims of rape, torture, starvation, forced abortion, and murder.
• Almost every country in the world is involved in trafficking in women and children either as a source or destination of the victims.
• Among the countries known for rampant trafficking in women and children are Japan, Australia, Cambodia, France, Brazil, India, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, and the United States.

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