Article #1
“Human trafficking mainly happens between regions and externally across South African borders. Within South Africa, human trafficking victims are targeted in economically disadvantaged territories, such as the Eastern Cape, the Northern Cape and the Free State.” These countries do not have the economic support of their government to have these borders. If they gain security the sex trafficking will decrease.
“In South Africa, campaigners and organizations claim that 30,000 children are smuggled into the nation yearly. Most cases of human trafficking in South Africa include sex trafficking, child labor, domestic servitude, organ smuggling, forced surrogacy, illegal child adoptions and debt bondage.” The security of Africa is fairly weak and shows little to no care and the people neglect the problem.
The government can reduce the extent of human trafficking by:
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Enhancement of social protection by a safety networking system.
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Provide job training and creating more jobs.
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Education and information based on trafficking.
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Improvement of healthcare for vulnerable groups.
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Increase access to justice for the poor empowers them to stand up for their right.
Article #2
“South African girls are trafficked within their country for the purposes of sexual exploitation and domestic servitude, while boys are trafficked internally for use in street vending, food service, and agriculture.”
This is stereotyping because boys have been doing labor work for centuries and girls are more common to do sex work because they are seen as “objects” and what they should and shouldn’t do for men.
“Worldwide, almost 20% of all trafficking victims are women. However, in some parts of Africa, women are the majority (up to 100% in parts of West Africa).”
African women are more prone to trafficking because of imbalance of power, war and social culture. Abusers make the victim feel worthless and make them have no self-worth because they want power. They want to have the control and power to keep their victims scared so they will stay with them and they’ll make money.
Traffickers belittle their victims and make them feel weak because they want to keep them to make money for them. No women should be in fear for her life. The men have power over these women and they are afraid for their lives.
Article #3
“Over 90% of nations in Africa that operate in human trafficking do it on the trio which means they are the source, the transit points and the destinations for the trafficked ones. If almost all countries participate in trafficking including middle economy countries like South Africa, then the question is who will stop it.”
South Africa is apart of trafficking because men abuse power to make money and become superior over women.
“Trafficking has turned human beings into goods of business that get bought, sold and resold. The forces of supply and demand of the markets even apply to them as products of the business. Human beings become looked at in terms of who is most valuable, who will fetch the highest price and who is useless at the market."
African women are becoming more of a good for men to make more money off of women. Traffickers make confiscation of identification and money, isolation from friends and family, and even renaming victims. Often, traffickers identify and leverage their victims’ vulnerabilities in order to create dependency.