Proposing a Solution

Human trafficking is an overwhelmingly huge epidemic. With 40.3 million victims worldwide, it is easy to feel like there is no possible way to do anything to help solve the problem of human trafficking (“The Facts”). In a way, this is correct; human trafficking will never be completely solved. There are just too many victims

Call To Action Post

The purpose of my four blog posts has been to make you, the reader, aware of just how horrible and widespread human trafficking is around the world. In the first post, I wrote from the perspective of a human trafficking survivor in an attempt to make the reader see things from the perspective of a

Blog Post #4

Human trafficking is a huge epidemic. The most recent study has revealed that there are 40.3 million human trafficking victims worldwide (“The Facts”). These numbers grow larger and larger with every passing year. These numbers will not shrink unless many powerful people really care to make a difference and take action. Human trafficking is not

Blog Post #3

When most people think about human trafficking, they think of sex trafficking. They think about prostitution and sex slaves. I was no exception; when I picked the topic of human trafficking, I thought I would be doing research on and writing about sex trafficking. In reality, sex trafficking is a relatively small part of a

Blog Post #2

Painful And Complicated As horrible as it is to say, a large percentage of human trafficking victims are children. The Polaris Project is a large non-government organization that fights against human trafficking. A horrifying statistic can be found on the official Polaris Project website: “25 percent of human trafficking victims are children” (“The Facts”). The

Blog Post 1

Please introduce yourself. My name is John, and I am a human trafficking survivor. I was working for this guy named Edgar. He was a big, intimidating guy. Everybody hated him… by they were scared to say it. The warehouse had this… feeling of fear in the air all the time. One of my friends

My First Blog Post

“I’m just so sick of being human.” – Jon Bellion Human trafficking is the use of force, coercion, or threats to make someone do some action. In most cases, the “action” victims are forced to perform is physical labor; physical labor in bad conditions, long hours, and little-to-no pay. Disturbingly, a significant percentage of human