Informative Speech Outline
Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about presence and effect of human trafficking in our society and the future.
Attention getter: Look at yourself and the person right next to you; do you think human trafficking is happening in your communities? Both of you probably don’t know. Human trafficking is a global crime, and it can occur in our borders or within our country.
Significance Statement: It is important to learn how modern slavery exists today and take action.
TRS: This afternoon, I will show how trafficking is prevalent in this day and age
Introduction/Preview Statement: There exist different hidden forms of trafficking patterns and many anti-trafficking laws to curb this crime. Human trafficking is an illegal trade who dominance can be traced on forced labor, sexual slavery and commercial sex exploitation. According to the international labor organization human trafficking in form of forced labor generates abnormal profits for traffickers in every year. Following this observation, the organization and other human right bodies have placed strict rules to combat human trafficking across the globe. Notably, human trafficking is a global industry that operates under the forces of supply and demand. Looking at the (1) statistics of human trafficking and (2) purpose of it will help us see the (3) effect of trafficking in the society.
I. One of the statistics of human trafficking is that women and girls are the largest percent of sex traffic victims. Most of these women are likely to be mistreated in broad ways to ensure that they comply with their masters who make profits at their expense.
A.
As Hepburn and Simon (2010) write in the article “Hidden in Plain Sight: Human Trafficking in the United States,” 98% of sex traffic victims are women and girls, 2% are men and boys, and children are 40-50%.
B.
In her article “ Hitting Them Where It Hurts: Strategies for Seizing Assets in Human Trafficking Cases”, Charlene Whitman ( 2013) asserts that unlike drug trafficking where contraband commodities are hidden, human trafficking poses lower risks and yields high profit (about $32 billion globally), since sexually exploited women and girls are not easily identified. However, governments have a great role to play in combat the escalating level of human trafficking.
1. The covert nature of human trafficking makes it difficult to give actual data estimates. It is thus possible that there could be so many people under trafficker’s custody yet they may not be known to the society and researchers.
2. David Feingold in his article “Human Trafficking” (2005), says that men in Thailand are excluded from trafficking statistics since in the national law they cannot qualify as trafficking victims.
Statistics help in planning and budgeting for programs that assist the victims. It’s evident that victims of human trafficking are vulnerable to many diseases and post traumatic conditions. Thus, support and encouragement to victims is paramount to their wellbeing and attainment of normalcy. Secondly, analyses of relevant data provide meaningful trends and changes, from making conclusions;
II. Traffickers have reasons why they commit this heinous crime. One of the reasons if
financial gains.
A.
Louise I Shelley in his book, “Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective” suggests that people are trafficked for labor exploitation, marriage, organs and use as child soldiers.
1.
McLeod, a writer for ABC News in her 24 Oct 2016 article “Australia Is Failing Vulnerable Slavery Victims,” posted that there has been growing demand and supply for people, who are exploited and abused, and controlled through intimidation and threats and are unable to seek support services. Victims are often prohibited from communication which makes it even harder for them to seek help and attention from concerned groups.
B.
Louise Shelley (2010) adds that profit exclusively motivates human smugglers and traffickers, where some engage in the activity to fund terrorist groups, guerilla movement or an insurgency. Some victims are even used as suicide bombers. It is thus clear that most suicidal bombers do not willing indulge in the act but could be forced into it.
A promise of work through job advertisements in newspapers, television or internet is a major method for victim recruitment. Most unemployed people are more likely to find themselves in this trap. Some of the job seekers travel with work visas or by illegal means. On foreign land, they are vulnerable and can be easily misguided considering the fact they may not even understand their host’s language and integrate their intent.
III.
Trafficking has affected many nations. Socially, economically and politically. As governments struggle to uproot this vice, it has had its effect on the society.
A. In her book “ Human Trafficking, Human Misery: The global trade in human beings” Alexis Aronowitz, explains The Vienna Forum to Fight Human Trafficking, called on the need to raise awareness on all forms of trafficking, and sought to find innovative measures and directions for future actions.
1.
David Feingold argues that giving sex workers a measure of legitimacy would discourage trafficking. In Thailand, he adds, extending labor and social security laws, would open establishment to inspection, allow labor organization and expose underage prostitution
2.
Deportation of trafficking victims puts them in the conditions that initially endangered them. Lacking legal status implies a lack of legal identity, which is the greatest for a person to be trafficked or exploited.
B.
In her article, Charlene Whiteman, 2013, points out that forfeiting traffickers’ assets hit them where it hurts most. Profits are taken from the crime and given to a state established victim fund for victim restitution.
Small civil society organizations provide essential needs for the vulnerable street children. Additionally, the media has actively informed citizens globally on laws against human trafficking.
To summarize, having the statistics on human trafficking, the reason for human trafficking and effect of human trafficking helps understand this subject well. Social analyses and gender assessments assist in determining vulnerable groups and recommend necessary actions.
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Works Cited
Aronowitz, Alexis A. Human trafficking, human misery: The global trade in human beings. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2009.
Barke, Mary C. Human Trafficking. New York: Routledge, 2013.Print.
Feingold, David A. Human Trafficking (2005):26-30, 32. Web.
Hepburn, Stephanie and Rita J. Simon. “Hidden In Plain Sight: Human Trafficking In the United States”. Gender Issues 27.1-2 (2010):1-26.Web.
McLeod, Fiona. “Australia Is Failing Vulnerable Slavery Victims”. ABC News. N.P., 2016. Web. 25 Oct 2016
Peters, Alicia W. Responding To Human Trafficking. 2015. Print
Shelley, Louise I. Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Print.
Whitman, JD, Charlene. Hitting Them Where It Hurts: Strategies for Seizing Assets in Human Trafficking Cases. (2013).Print
