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Abstract
The United Nations is putting an effort to push development across the globe. It has set some objectives in its attempt to ensure that this development is sustainable and these include, eradicating poverty, achieving food security, establishing global health, promoting all-inclusive education, creating gender equality, availability of water and sanitation for everyone are just a few of its objectives. Human sex trafficking is a disturbing issue that is plaguing the world. The United Nations is working hard to fight this practice and has incorporated measures that counter the activities that fuel it. Thus, the manifestation of the sex trafficking in most countries, and with the escalation of cross-border crimes on tis vice, has prompted the United Nations to instigate stringent measures in order to contain the situation. This paper exclusively discuses about human sex trafficking as one a core precept in the UN global agenda, and how this body has mainstreamed its focus in fighting against the vice.
Objective Chosen
Poverty is one of the factors that lead people into sex trafficking. Discussion into how poverty and human trafficking are connected is important. It gives insight into the suffering caused by the practice and how the world can overcome this hurdle.
Significance in the Field of Human Sexuality
Once the human mind becomes too burdened, it can make a person's thoughts to lack clarity thus leading to poor decisions. Poverty, human sexuality, human sex trafficking and psychology are all related. Poverty burdens the human mind to the extent of making a person irrational. It also makes a person an easy target for wrongful persuasion. In Asia, very many people suffer from abject poverty (Yea, 2014). At times, due to lack of finances to sustain themselves, some people get convinced to sell their children for an agreed amount of money. A completely rational person would never agree to this, but poverty has pushed people to make worse choices before.
Moreover, some people flee their country due to economic reasons and attempt to reach more stable countries, mostly the ones in Europe. Due to limited funds, they get into bad deals with human traffickers who at times force people into sexual slavery to pay off the cost of being transported to the country of their desire. Sex trafficking can mess with the mind of a person, especially women who are the most trafficked and end up making them feel very worthless. It is, therefore, a very harmful vice to society which needs to be stopped and eradicating poverty would play a big part towards helping the world to achieve this.
International Agencies Working on It
The World Bank is one of the organizations working towards eradicating poverty. It provides huge amounts of funds for causes aimed at subsidizing the cost of education for children in the third world. Lack of proper education to children subject them to poor social conditions, and as such continuing the poverty cycle in the societies. By educating them, the risk of people getting involved in sex trafficking is reduced. It also promotes the education of girl children in Africa rather than having them married off at a young age which is demeaning (UNICEF, 2003). The International Monetary Fund is another global organization working to eradicate poverty in the world and consequently reduce human sex trafficking. It provides funding for economic projects in Africa on condition that some structural adjustments are met to ensure that development moves in a particular direction (McCabe, & Manian, 2010). Improved living standards of people will make it harder for them to give into human sex trafficking. Therefore, the United Nation’s manifestation to ending human sex trafficking is geared on providing sustainable development.
What Can Be Done
Change can be brought by means of changing the mindsets of the people. By making people see alternative ways of getting income apart from dependence on employment and agriculture in order to kick out poverty. A campaign should be mounted to show people the importance of education in overcoming poverty and why it is just as necessary to educate girls as it is to educate boys. A good idea of how to influence change would be a strong condemnation of the high levels of corruption in the third world which slows down development, brings about poverty and makes people indulge in destructive activities like human trafficking.
References
McCabe, K. A., & Manian, S. (2010). Sex trafficking: A global perspective. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books.
UNICEF, (2003). Trafficking in Human Beings, Especially Women and Children in Africa. Florence, Italy: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
Yea, S. (2014). Human Trafficking in Asia: Forcing Issues. London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group,
