Today I was searching an important matter for my conference, and suddenly I started watching historical speeches of Mr. Obama. He said, “We are not Latin America, Central America……Black America, White America,……. We need the United States of America” In second term he said,” America need a champion, his office need a champion……….” Can I ask Obama how long he will take to search a champion to stop Sexual Trafficking?
Sexual trafficking is a form of human trafficking that is targeted towards sexual exploitation. Studies show that human trafficking is on the increase across the globe with variant forms. Such human trafficking includes trafficking for sexual exploitation or sexual human trafficking, trafficking for forced labor, child trafficking and so forth. Human trafficking is indeed a menace as it is identified as the second most serious organized criminal threat to Central America, besides drug trafficking.
Human trafficking is prevalent in Central America, which is the southern part of North America from the southern border of Mexico to northwestern Columbia and also South America. This includes countries like Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras. The report issued by the US State Department pointed out the source, transit and destination countries of human trafficking in North America. According to this report, the source countries include Columbia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, and so forth. The transit countries include all the Central America and Caribbean while the destination countries include Barbados, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Argentina, Bahamas, Panama and so forth.
The prime factors that contribute to human trafficking in Central America are divided into two categories including individual factors and outside factors. According to the report, the individual factors include unemployment, poverty, homelessness, history of physical or sexual abuse, drug use and gang membership. On other hand, the outside factors include political, social or economic crises and natural disasters in particular countries. In addition; the high global demand for domestic servants, sex workers, factory labor and agricultural laborers; prolonged machismo that causes discrimination against women and girls; public corruption and so forth.
Sexual human trafficking is identified as a form of human trafficking that involves trafficking for sexual exploitation. The International Human Rights Law Institute (IHRLI) provided an innovative and exploratory work in Belize, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua and Honduras. Hitherto. A very little were publicly known about these regions in terms of human trafficking. The report further identified factors that hindered official or unofficial efforts to collect data as uncertainty to evaluate the problem, its low priority among law enforcement agencies and its underground and illegal nature. This is the fact that the trafficking of women and children in these regions is a growing concern which cannot be overstated.
Seelke reported that sexual human trafficking is perceived as the most widespread and crucial regional problem of all the other forms of trafficking in Central America. According to the State Department, up to 100,000 Latin Americans are being trafficked annually. The majority of the traffic victims come from Columbia and Dominican Republic while the destination countries oftentimes include Spain, Italy, the United States, Portugal and Japan. A study identified that about up to 10,000 women are being trafficked from the southern and central Mexico to the northern border for sexual exploitation every year. Another report issued by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) pointed out that the relatively open borders, lenient administration of work permit rules and entertainment visa are significant facts behind sexual trafficking. The legalization of prostitution in the Caribbean is also the major reason for high trafficking in the region. The bottom line of the study points hands to the fact that there is inter-regional trafficking problems in the Central Americas and the Caribbean.
This is a social dilemma that the trafficking has been identified, reported and investigated in some of these regions, but nothing is done about this in the end of the day. This is mainly because of the weaknesses in the justice system. As a matter of fact, corruption and weak legal and governmental system are the major reasons of the trafficking problem persist in these countries discussed in the report.
In short, human trafficking is the second most serious organized criminal threat to Central America, besides drug trafficking. Sexual human trafficking was identified as a form of human trafficking, and the essay took a close look at this form of trafficking in Central America and the Caribbean.
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