my final draft

Ben Taylor

Research class

Nouh Al Rajab

Date 04/10/2010

Human Trafficking

          According to the United Nations office on drugs and crime “Human Trafficking is a crime against humanity. It involves an act of recruiting, transporting, transferring, harboring or receiving a person through a use of force, coercion or other means, for the purpose of exploiting them”(unodc).  Recently, human trafficking has taken place in our society which is not going to help us as a people who want to live in a good and safe place. I’m strongly against the idea of legalizing human trafficking because it’s going to cause many bad effects on the individual and the society. Legalizing human trafficking would give a chance to increase the amount of the crime, expand the black market, and cause people to hold grudges upon one another.  Preventing human trafficking would be helpful for us as a people who want to live safely.        

               “ In Yemen, a Sudanese morgue worker at Sana’a University used his position to get whatever he wants. Mohammad Adam Omar, 48, was arrested May 17, 2000, following the persistent complaining by the mother of an Iraqi student who mysteriously disappeared December 1999. After his arrest, the killer morgue worker confessed to killing fifty-one women in Lebanon, Kuwait, Nigeria, Yemen, Jordan, and Sudan over a 25-year period. In Yemen, Omar confessed to killing sixteen women, eight of whom were students at the university. He said he took them to the university's morgue where he hit them hard on the head until they died. Then he skinned them. He also said he cut off the hands and feet of his victims, dissolved them in chemicals and kept their bones as mementos and used it for human trafficking”.(wetsch). It is not right and a good idea to permit human trafficking because it will cause more crime and stressful lives for people. There could be some evil people who are going to exploit the legalizing of human trafficking and try to kill other people to get what they want.  As we know there are good and bad people everywhere. Legalizing human trafficking would give the criminal opportunity to do whatever he or she wants for their own benefit. Consequently the amount of the crime will increase, and that’s what we are trying to prevent .Usually crimes happen at night when it is dark and people are resting. That is not as dangerous for those people who would not mind staying home at night and forget about having fun until late. But, how about those people who have to work at night and what if there are any emergences that may cause some people to go out during the night such as going to a hospital? Will they have to get accustomed to living and working nervously almost every day? What I recommended are some ideas would assist us to prevent human trafficking such as educate people and let them be aware about the danger of human trafficking and support a charity whom in desire on that field.            

  On the other hand let’s talk about some people who thought legalizing human trafficking would not have any bad effect on the individual and society. The following study shows that permitting human trafficking has caused many bad effects. According to Professor Janice Raymond “Legalization led to open season on prostituted women in the Netherlands. Organized crime took over the sex industry, and this is the main reason why thirty percent of the window brothels have recently been shuttered by the mayor of Amsterdam. Because they had become a haven for traffickers and unsafe for women, Amsterdam and Rotterdam have also closed down their tipple zones what some call tolerance zones, but in truth are out-and-out sacrifice zones where certain women can be bought and sold.” (Raymond).   Due to the clandestine nature of the phenomenon “12.3 million Victims of forced labor are estimated in the world today, of whom some 2.45 million are trafficked according to ILO. Of these, most are trafficked into forced labor for commercial sexual exploitation, while one third are trafficked for other economic exploitation. Over half of the persons subject to forced economic exploitation, and almost all those subject to forced commercial sexual exploitation, are women. 700,000 to two million are trafficked across international borders annually, an estimate advanced by the United Nations Population Fund. The US Department of State has estimated 600,000 to 800,000 men, women, and children trafficked across international borders each year; approximately 80 percent are women and girls. United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund reports that across the world, there are over one million children entering the sex trade every year and that approximately 30 million children have lost their childhood through sexual exploitation over the past 30 years''.(www.endhuman....).                                              

          Another reason why human trafficking should not be legalized is the probability of having the black market expanded. The black market destroys many people and could ruin societies and creates aggressiveness. If organs were for sale is not there a chance of having more crimes and victims? The chances of having a killer and many  victims  people are  increasing, and this way is not going to do any good for  the countries and does not support their  societies nor the development. In addition, people who work in black market for organs will use human trafficking to get money, sex, or body organs. This is a reason that people who disagree and prefer having the organs for sale might want to seriously consider. Due to the fact that human trafficking may cause bigger black markets, human trafficking should be illegal. Here is another studies show the contrast between permitting the organs and donating them. According to Amy Lieberman “Approximately 5 to 10 percent of kidney transplantations each year come from forced trafficking .The Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation estimates that around 68,000 kidney transplantations occur every year. This equates to approximately 3,400–6,800 kidney transplants per year from human trafficking”. (Lieberman)                                             After knowing the first two consequences from legalizing human trafficking here is another essential point that would happen:  holding grudges upon one another. We live in society that has rich, middle, and poor classes. If human trafficking were legal rich people are going to afford whatever they want especially the human body organs field. Poor people tend to be sicker and have more diseases than rich and middle class people. The reason for saying that is as known poor people usually live in bad neighborhoods and their living conditions tend to be sort of bad and unclean and it is easier to get diseases in those societies rather than those of cleaner societies. The selling of organs to the unfortunate is unlikely because the rich people will get what they want: money would buy anything .Also, the reason for saying that organs are costly is that everywhere it is well-known that organs are not easy to get and for that reason, the rich are going to use this strategy anyways to get either the money or the organs.                                                                                                           Furthermore, Selling organs just makes things frightful and makes people hold grudges upon one another since there will be people whom are going to be a victims of that. The fear and scarce of many people would spread, which is not good for children to learn those matters or go through experiences like those. Moreover, if children suffer any of those terrifying issues, then they are either going to end up with being criminals or have scary lives that are not the best. That is absolutely not an encouragement to raise children to be productive citizens in their futures and help their countries civilize.Therefore, organs are definitely going to be very expensive to buy since they are hard to get, and that would open an area for people who are in a favor of legalizing human trafficking. Does anyone think that it is fair to make life more difficult for poor people from getting health care compared to rich people who easily get what they want due to the money they have? Well, to be fair and have people treated the same; poor people will hold grudges upon rich people.  After knowing this reason, human trafficking should be illegal and we have to prevent it so that people will have lovely and friendly lives.                                                                                  

             In conclusion, there have been explanations for the reasons why human trafficking should not be legal. All that is written above are possibilities, increasing the amount of crime something that we don’t want to happen since there are many organizations working against that. Moreover stopping human trafficking is a way to prevent the black market whether by stop selling and buying organs or educated people. Preventing people from getting involved neither in being worried about not having the financial abilities to buy organs nor having frightening lives from murderers.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Work citied

United nations office on drugs and crime. ”Human trafficking”. what is human trafficking about. 10spetamber.2010.http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-human-trafficking.html#What_is_Human_Trafficking.

Wetsch, elisabeth. ”serial killers crime index.;omar moahammed adan”.22 augest.2008.17 septamber.2010. < http://www.crimezzz.net/serialkillers/O/OMAR_mohammed_adam.php

Raymond,janice.”humant rafficking”against legalzing. 28 fabruary 2007. 15/09/2010. http://www.humantrafficking.org/updates/643>

Endhumantraffickingnow.”victimes”.23september.2010. http://www.endhumantraffickingnow.com/About_human_trafficking/Pages/Facts_figures.aspx >

Lieberman,amy.”organs and human trafficking intersect”.policyinnovations for a fairer globlaitzation.30march.2010. 27september .2010.www.policyinnovations.org/idea/briefings/data.