Human Trafficking: Breaking the Military Link
2005; Procon Ltd.; Volume: 04; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.11610/connections.04.4.06
ISSN1812-2973
Autores Tópico(s)Maritime Security and History
ResumoOver 140 years after slavery was outlawed in the United States, 1 and nearly eighty years after world leaders signed the Slavery Convention, human slavery and enforced servitude continue to doom millions to lives of involuntary servitude in our day. 2The U.S. State Department's 2005 Report on Human Trafficking estimates that 600,000-800,000 persons are trafficked across international borders every year. 3 Many more, perhaps millions, are trafficked within the borders of their own nations. 4 The International Labor Organization estimates that there are about 12.3 million people enslaved in various kinds of forced or bonded labor, sexual or involuntary servitude at any given time. 5Some are kidnapped, while others are enticed by promises of good jobs abroad.Some are sold to traffickers by their parents or husbands; many simply migrate of their own accord in search of work, and find themselves in the hands of traffickers.Like the slaves of times past, many labor in fields and factories, yet a more pernicious form of human bondage has become the most common form of servitude: sexual slavery. 6 Like slave owners of old, modern traffickers use violence, threats, intimidation, the confiscation of travel documents, and physical restraint to keep slaves at their tasks.Yet modern human trafficking seems more pernicious than the chattel slavery of the past, in part because it is so thoroughly the province of transnational organized crime.Human trafficking is considered to be the third-largest source of criminal income worldwide, generating an estimated $9.5 billion per year. 7It is also closely linked with money laundering, document forgery, drug trafficking and human smuggling, and international ter-
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