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Essay / Trafficking of girls - 1039
It is estimated that more than two million people around the world are victims of trafficking every year, most of whom are unfortunately women. Since the past, gender inequality and injustice existed. Many parents think that if they have a daughter, they have a greater responsibility than having a son. Some parents treat their daughters so harshly and miserably because they don't want others to say that they were not raised well by their parents. More attention should certainly be paid to the extent of trafficking in women. There should absolutely be rules and sanctions for those who sell their daughters to men without their consent. Some girls are too young to understand that if their parents abandoned them, horrible things like murder and sexual assault could happen to them. Women and girls are sent to foreign countries to work and are also given to men for marriage. These women and girls are in reality forced into prostitution (David M. Smolin, 2005). Others are forced to be used by men due to their family's circumstances, as they belong to a lower class. Parents sell their daughters to men for two main reasons. First, some parents give their daughters to men because of poverty. According to UNICEF, young women are being manipulated into prostitution in the global financial sex trade. The use of girls especially in the sex trade is such that many people are aware of it and the laws of few countries do not accept it. Over the past ten years, trade has gone too far. This means that instead of exchanging goods, part of the population exchanges women. It is also estimated that over the past three decades, the trafficking of women in Asia for sexual gain has become more discriminatory...... middle of paper ...... network organization", 2012) As stated by the "United Nations", in 2004, the total annual profit generated by the trafficking of women and girls was estimated between 5 and 9 billion dollars. In addition, innocent people face problems of insecurity. and inadequacy. In conclusion, parents sell their daughters because of poverty and gender bias. The crime of trafficking of girls is in fact very widespread. It leads to health consequences and psychiatric illnesses. parents who abandon their daughters seek to escape inequality and poverty They want to improve their lives and not have to pay for their daughters since they are already very poor (“Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, 2003) Trafficked girls most likely face problems and because of the problems they face and the things they are forced to do against their will, they attempt suicide...