It doesn’t matter where injustices are happening, it matters that they are happening at all.
That’s why we dedicated an entire issue to discuss human trafficking and the thousands of voiceless women and men that are trafficked each day.
Why should students care?
Why does it matter that people across the world or country are enslaved?
We as an international society have a responsibility to change this.
No one deserves to be hurt, enslaved, trafficked or forced into anything that they disagree with.
As a consumer in my community and nation, I believe that I have a responsibility to change the day-in and day-out supply and demand of sex trafficking, labor trafficking and drug trafficking.
Human trafficking is a multi-billion dollar black market industry that ruins the lives of so many.
From the age as early as 11, women are being forced to commit acts that they do not wish to commit.
They are forced into prostitution. Traffickers threaten to kill loved ones if the women don’t meet their quotas.
Girls and women are forced into human trafficking, or prostitution. There are many stereotypes surrounding prostitution, yet girls are targeted and often times forced into situations they do not have a way out of.
The most important aspect is that we need to change the way we view prostitution, slavery and trafficking.
Prostitution is not a last resort for junkies, but rather women are forced into it by another person. With the way our laws are written, we then punish those who are forced to do terrible, unjust and immoral acts against their will.
Sister Terry Shields spoke to the Cabrini community on Thursday, Feb. 5, about the dawning realities of human trafficking. Shields said, “I never refer to women as prostitutes, but rather women who are prostituted.”
I completely agree that we should change the way we refer to victims of these sex crimes because they did not willingly commit them.
One way our society allows for this action is through how we objectify women.
By objectifying women or looking at them at material commadities, it allows young men to see that treating women like they are trash is entirely okay.
I believe that we are taking the necessary measures and steps that we need to take in order to change the injustice of sex trafficking on a small level.
However, I think there is much more we are leaving out.
The amount of time and dedication it takes for the FBI to learn about possible traffickers in the country as well as internationally, is extremely long.
We need to find a more transparent way once we do find victims and rescue them, for them to recover and live their lives.
We need more success stories and fewer tragedies.
We can cut the numbers entirely in half, all it takes is a group of people to stand up and take on that challenge.
