1. The Impact of Human Trafficking
By: Donesha Collier

2. What is Human Trafficking ?
The illegal movement of people , typically for the purposes of forced labor.
Examples: Sexual Exploitation, Domestic Service. Farm, or factory Labor

3. How is Human Trafficking done?
People are often smuggled to different areas (Zhang)
People can be lured from their homes with false promises of well- paying jobs (Bales)
But they people end up being forced to (Bales)
Zhang, Sheldon Smuggling And Trafficking in Human Being: All Roads Lead to America. West Port, Connecticut: Praeger.
Bales, Kevin and Ron Soodalter The Slave next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today. Berkeley: University of California Press.

4. Why is this importance ?
ICE Organizations is running and investigation with Department of Homeland Security (ICE)
Investigating human smuggling and human trafficking (ICE)
They have noticed thousands of men, women, and children have went missing. (ICE)
Human Trafficking have increased dramatically over the recent years (Farr)
Farr, Kathryn Sex Trafficking: the Global Market in Women and Children. New York, NY: Worth Publishers.

5. Human Right Violated
Article 4: No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel , inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 13.2: Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Article 19: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; the right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

6. Human Rights Violated (continued)
Article 23.1: Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
Article 24: Everyone had the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
Article 25: Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family.
Article 26: Everyone has the right to education.
Anon. n.d. “The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights | United Nations.” UN News Center. Retrieved October (

7. The Impact of Human Trafficking
The victims suffer physical abuse (Quirk)
The victims have become immigrants (Quirk)
Victims are forced to work in harsh work environments (Quirk)
Victims have poor health (Quirk)
Victims have a hard time trusting others (Hodges)
Quirk, Joel “Trafficked Into Slavery.” Journal of Human Rights 181– 207.
Hodge, D. R “Assisting Victims Of Human Trafficking: Strategies to Facilitate Identification, Exit from Trafficking, and the Restoration of Wellness.” Social Work 111–18.

8. What has been done?
Organizations have been working to get victims released from chattel slavery (Quirk)
The U.S. Government has policies to helped people exit trafficking; Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act (Hodge)
Social workers work with the victims to provide shelter, safety, and medical care (Hodge)
Social workers also conducted physical, emotional, and spiritual assessments (Hodge)
Quirk, Joel “Trafficked Into Slavery.” Journal of Human Rights 181– 207.
Hodge, D. R “Assisting Victims Of Human Trafficking: Strategies to Facilitate Identification, Exit from Trafficking, and the Restoration of Wellness.” Social Work 111–18.

9. What else can be done? Educate people this social issue
Find organizations that are focused Human Trafficking
Take action by collecting money for the cause
Bales, Kevin and Ron Soodalter The Slave next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today. Berkeley: University of California Press.

10. Bibliography
Bales, Kevin and Ron Soodalter The Slave next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Farr, Kathryn Sex Trafficking: the Global Market in Women and Children. New York, NY: Worth Publishers.
Hodge, D. R “Assisting Victims Of Human Trafficking: Strategies to Facilitate Identification, Exit from Trafficking, and the Restoration of Wellness.” Social Work 111–18.
Anon. n.d. “Human Trafficking.” Dictionary.com. Retrieved September (
Anon “Human Trafficking And Smuggling.” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Retrieved May 2015 (
Quirk, Joel “Trafficked Into Slavery.” Journal of Human Rights 181–207.
Anon. n.d. “The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights | United Nations.” UN News Center. Retrieved October 2015 (
Zhang, Sheldon Smuggling And Trafficking in Human Being: All Roads Lead to America. West Port, Connecticut: Praeger.