Sex Trafficking Is Modern Day Slavery - 1175 Words

Sex trafficking is basically modern day slavery. It’s terrible, sex traffickers use violence, threats, and lies to compel and trick not only adults, but innocent children to get involved in commercial sex acts against their will. Not only that, but in different countries like Algeria and Cuba they are also dealing with sex trafficking but sometimes the children or adults are used and forced labor upon them. It’s sad and sickening. These sex traffickers take these people and children away from their lives, drug them up, and use them. It is inhumane and countries that have deal with this issue have families wondering where their children are at, who they are with, what they’re doing, if they’re still even alive. According to the U.S†¦show more content†¦In Algeria, people would try to enter the country voluntarily but illegally. Usually the people entering Algeria illegally are Sub-Saharan african woman or men attempting to travel to Europe. They think they’re getting assistance in illegally entering Algeria, but to the traveler’s misfortune, the sex traffickers end up deceiving them and end up taking the children or adults between the ages of about thirteen or twenty. The crazy thing is, according to U.S State Department(2012), The â€Å"chairmen,† or leaders, of the â€Å"African villages†Ã¢â‚¬â€small non-Algerian ethnic enclaves located in and around the southern city of Tamanrasset—may be among those responsible for forcing some women into prostitution. Also, Some sub-Saharan men, mainly from Mali, are forced into labor. The government of Algeria seems to not be making any significant efforts in trying to stop sex traffickers. Even after about a year, the Algerian government still did not hold any perpetrators of sex trafficking accountable for their stupid actions. Their government lacks adequate in measures to protect sex and human trafficking victims. They conflated both human traf ficking and smuggling, so sex and human trafficking victims were just seen as illegal immigrants trying to illegally enter Algeria. They were bound to be arrested and deported. Innocent Algerian woman are raped, forced into