Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015: This act

strengthens services for victims. Also requires the creation of

Freedom
Everyone has the right to freedom. This is a natural born
given right. Without the right of freedom, we then go under
the leadership of a dictator. Persons should never be be held
captive under the ruling of another person. The right to
freedom gives people the right to power over their own lives
as well. But once placed into the human trafficking trade, you
right to freedom has been stripped. Most persons become
victim to having their freedom stripped through:
Poverty: exploitation when it comes to affording to live
Gender Inequality: women more vulnerable
Age: children due to false promises & easily dominated
a domestic trafficking victim’s fund to support victim
assistance programs, block grants for child trafficking
deterrence programs, and additional training requirements for
first responders, among others.
Human Trafficking Policies, Instutions, and
Organizations
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 was the first federal
law to address trafficking in persons. It provided an approach
that included prevention, protection, and prosecution. This
law includes both sex and labor trafficking. This bill was later
amended in 2019 and had 4 separate bills put in its place
Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act of
2014: Seeks to reduce the incidence of sex trafficking among
Abolish Human Trafficking Act of 2017: youth involved in the foster care system. The portion of this
law specific to sex trafficking requires child welfare systems
to improve their response to sex trafficking by screening and
identifying youth who are sex trafficking victims or those who
are at risk for sex trafficking, provide appropriate services to
youth who experience sex trafficking, report missing children
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2017
to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children,
and develop protocols for locating missing or runaway
children and determine what circumstances they faced while
away from care.
Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2017

Homelessness: easy expploation

Fredrick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and

Protection Reauthorization Act of 2018
Relocation: Immigrants/Domestic violence escapee

lack of education: school drop-outs

Rest & Leisure

Free from Torture Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

Article 24
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Article 5

Persons have the right to be free of torture. But the victims of

human trafficking are tortured every day. They are Workers are supposed to have paid annual holidays off to give workers a
forced/beaten into doing what their trafficker says. Whenever reasonable amount of time away from work to permit rest, recreation, and
there is a time they may refuse, they could even be killedr
brought close to death. Traffickers use this tactic to keep their
recuperation from accumulated physical and mental strain. As we know,
vivictimsfraid and submissive. This is degrading and victims of trafficking are not given this right. They work around the clock for
disgusting. their trafficker. There are even times when a woman may have a baby and
have to get. back to work the day after. Traffickers see it as if the workers
aren't working, there is no money coming in and this decreases their profit.

Dignity of Person Human Rights: Human Trafficking Education

Human Trafficking violates the principle of human dignity of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article . The Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
trade of human persons is a terrible offense. Human Article 26
trafficking deceives women, men, and children from all walks
of life and it forces them into exploitative situations everyday.
They get no respect or even recognized as a human.

Lack of access to quality education places

vulnerabilities and puts children and adults
alike at risk of human trafficking. Due to the

References
lack of education, vicitims struggle to:
Most victims chose to not be identified due to: guilt, fear of Right to Life
relation by trafficker, fear of arrest or deportation, lack of Standard of Living
transportation or controlled movement, fear of report to social Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
services, lack of understanding the U.S. healthcare system Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Article 3.
Article 25 forced to work in hazardous conditions
Flowers, N. (n.d.). Human Rights: Here and Healthcare
Now. The Universal Declaration of Human
Rights (abbreviated).
Human Trafficking does not give those in the trade a
Persons experiencing Human Trafficking often are not limitation of independence
right to life. They have to move whenever someone else
exposed to proper healthcare. And those who are, they
usually only go during emergency situations: tells them to. They have no say in how their life goes.
There is not sense of security and they are constantly Victims are forced to live in hazardous
forced into doing acts against their will. They are not conditions. There are times when they go
find jobs paying a living wage
living for themselves, they are living to keep making without food and water. There are instances
Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking. where they don't even have shelter. Victims
(2023, June 14). Human trafficking: A human » In an emergency
money for their trafficker. Vicitms have no right to life
» For mental health services and until they either escape or die, they will never be are constantly being pushed into unlivable
rights violation. conditions. They are only forced into these
released to live a life of their own.
conditions because the traffickers feel like
they are not worthy of putting in any efforts of
» For pre-existing conditions
the living conditions. All people have a right to
» For addiction treatment
shelter, food, and water. But victims are not
» After a workplace injury even given these things most of the time
Recognizing and responding to human
trafficking in a ... (n.d.). during their captive state.

» For health issues unrelated to trafficking

» After an assault

» For prenatal care » For gynecological services

Universal declaration of human rights.

Amnesty International. (2023, December 11).

» For routine checkups

Federal law. National Human Trafficking

Hotline. (n.d.).