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Name:Natalie Ambetsa

School:Light international School

Centre Number:KE017

Subject code:1129

Topic:Law and Criminality

Issue:Human Trafficking
Research Question:Does poverty have an impact on the likelihood of individuals
becoming victims of human trafficking?

Introduction
According to Dictionary.com. (n.d.-a). the state or condition of having little or no
money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor.According to United
Nations (n.d.).Human Trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer,
harbouring or receipt of people through force or fraud, with the aim of exploiting
them for profit. Men, women and children of all ages and from all backgrounds
can become victims of this crime, which occurs in every region of the world.

Poverty is one of several factors that make individuals vulnerable to trafficking.


While trafficking victims come from a range of backgrounds, including from
economically privileged families, trafficking is linked inextricably with people with
a lack of resources, notably job opportunities. Living in poverty is a harsh reality
to escape from and people become desperate enough to enter into fraudulent
employment schemes or be deceived into prostitution. Traffickers target people
who have few economic opportunities and those struggling to meet basic needs.

The aim is to see if poverty increases vulnerability of a person being a victim of


human trafficking by looking at how economic poverty can make more people be
explotations to traffickers.

Global Perspective
The UN agrees that people who live under the condition of poverty,are most likely to
become victims of human trafficking because of the opportunities and limited
education access.Evidence for this is Traffickers normally target individuals by
claiming they will provide them with Job opportunities,better living conditions or just
away from poverty.the UN also emphasises that other vulnerabilities—such as
gender-based violence, displacement, and lack of political rights—interact with
poverty, making individuals even more susceptible to trafficking. For example, people
in conflict zones or those displaced by natural disasters may be at an even higher
risk of being trafficked.This is an important Issue because poverty,inequality and
vulnerabilities do exist everywhere in the world. This is a global issue because the
United Nations represents more than 100 countries across the world and addresses
topics that will affect the globe.Making their sources of information reliable.

National Perspective
I picked to discuss Nigeria as my national perspective because the International
Organization for Migration (IOM) has noted that Nigeria is one of the largest sources
of trafficking victims globally. In 2020 alone, it's also a country that agrees with my
question showing that reports show that Nigeria is a source, transit, and destination
country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labour and
commercial sexual exploitation.(African Center For Advocacy & Human
Development).According to the (The U.S. Department of State's Trafficking in
Persons (TIP) Report (2023) notes that Nigerian men, women, and children are
trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation, both domestically and
internationally, with traffickers often preying on the poor and promising jobs or better
lives abroad.According to (NBS) the poverty rate of Nigeria has increased by 40%
meaning that this increased poverty makes people more susceptible to promises of
better job opportunities, which traffickers often take advantage of. Traffickers
frequently target the poor, knowing they are less likely to have the resources or
knowledge to escape exploitative situations.(Lagos, 2022).

Reference list
Dictionary.com. (n.d.-a). Poverty definition & meaning. Dictionary.com.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/poverty

Human-trafficking. United Nations : Office on Drugs and Crime. (n.d.).


https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/human-trafficking.html
Human-trafficking. United Nations : Office on Drugs and Crime. (n.d.-a).
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/human-trafficking.html

Alliancetoendhumantrafficking. (n.d.). https://alliancetoendhumantrafficking.org/wp-


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