Social Impacts of Human Trafficking
The social impacts of human trafficking are rather universal. This does not denote them as being not a serious matter, nonetheless. Those who have truly experienced human trafficking are the ones who must cope with the majority of the social impacts. Although, HIV and AIDS can be spread because of human trafficking, which can affect any and all of the population. Despite there being shared impacts of human trafficking, the specific incidents tend to differ from country to country.
If a person has had to experience human trafficking, they have known a life worse than death itself. The conditions those are forced to live in the brothels are thoroughly atrocious. Victims of human trafficking have absolutely no freedoms, and experience horrors such as abuse, violence, deprivation, and torture. These kind of conditions often lead to trauma. With that in mind, it can be understandable how these people would feel the urge to escape. Unfortunately, this misdeed will never go without punishment, which are never minor. One person once had to submerge their body in a barrel filled with water contaminated with scorpion and other vermin, and sit there for one week. As if that wasn’t enough, they also had to sit in the darkness all lonesome. Another way to make the victims more cooperative would be to inject them with drugs, leading to addiction, which meant the brothel was eventually their lifeline. Many people who have been trafficked fought it at first, but eventually accepted they lost that battle from the beginning. They have even been seen smiling and flirting, but it is only an act. On the inside, they are broken and crying.
Since human trafficking involves selling a person for sex, pregnancies would be expected. No matter, human traffickers have even found a way to make that seem dark and twisted. They force those who are pregnant to have abortions, with unclean instruments by non certified practitioners. This lack of sanitation is one of the many factors in the ever spreading HIV in the human trafficking world. The relationship between human trafficking and HIV isn’t always completely obvious. Really, the fact that there was any relationship at all between these two problems is a recent realization. Currently, there is not much research to show the connection, but more studies are being conducted in order to have that sufficient information necessary for ending the social issue of human trafficking. What is known thus far is that many are not properly educated in the area of sexually transmitted diseases, meaning they are typically unaware of what they are and most definitely whether or not one would have them. This means people all over the world, especially in the world of human trafficking, people are spreading life threatening diseases, such as HIV and AIDS.
If a person has had to experience human trafficking, they have known a life worse than death itself. The conditions those are forced to live in the brothels are thoroughly atrocious. Victims of human trafficking have absolutely no freedoms, and experience horrors such as abuse, violence, deprivation, and torture. These kind of conditions often lead to trauma. With that in mind, it can be understandable how these people would feel the urge to escape. Unfortunately, this misdeed will never go without punishment, which are never minor. One person once had to submerge their body in a barrel filled with water contaminated with scorpion and other vermin, and sit there for one week. As if that wasn’t enough, they also had to sit in the darkness all lonesome. Another way to make the victims more cooperative would be to inject them with drugs, leading to addiction, which meant the brothel was eventually their lifeline. Many people who have been trafficked fought it at first, but eventually accepted they lost that battle from the beginning. They have even been seen smiling and flirting, but it is only an act. On the inside, they are broken and crying.
Since human trafficking involves selling a person for sex, pregnancies would be expected. No matter, human traffickers have even found a way to make that seem dark and twisted. They force those who are pregnant to have abortions, with unclean instruments by non certified practitioners. This lack of sanitation is one of the many factors in the ever spreading HIV in the human trafficking world. The relationship between human trafficking and HIV isn’t always completely obvious. Really, the fact that there was any relationship at all between these two problems is a recent realization. Currently, there is not much research to show the connection, but more studies are being conducted in order to have that sufficient information necessary for ending the social issue of human trafficking. What is known thus far is that many are not properly educated in the area of sexually transmitted diseases, meaning they are typically unaware of what they are and most definitely whether or not one would have them. This means people all over the world, especially in the world of human trafficking, people are spreading life threatening diseases, such as HIV and AIDS.
Impacts on South Africa
Even though most of the social impacts of human trafficking are on those being trafficked, there always some effects on society as a whole. A very strong example of this was the 2010 World Cup, which took place in South Africa. South Africa has a significant problem with human trafficking, causing a bit of a controversy on whether or not the World Cup should actually be held there. It was decided, though, there will be a decent number of police officers monitoring the area for the duration of the World Cup. The reason human trafficking posed such a serious problem during the World Cup was that there would be an increased amount of tourists, meaning an increased amount of men, in South Africa. Since men are the highest consumers in the human trafficking world, that meant there was a fairly great chance for increased amounts of trafficking during that time period.
Impacts on Madagascar
Madagascar has never experienced something as extreme as the World Cup incident in human trafficking, but it is regardless still very dangerous and only too common. Human trafficking in Madagascar consists more than just selling sex slaves. It also consists of modern slavery and forced labor. Hopefully one day human trafficking will no longer pose as a problem to society.