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mercredi 2 juillet 2014

Fight Against Virginia Human Trafficking

By Rosella Campbell


The reported case of hundred thousand victims whose dignity is eroded each year through slavery is on the rise. Despite their spirited attempt to end the Virginia human trafficking, the justice and law enforcement departments experience multiple challenges in bringing the perpetrators to book. This arises from the difficulty of distinguishing trafficking from the related activities including human smuggling and prostitution. Similarly, most victims encounter communication barriers in the foreign land, thus breaking the communication chain.

Although often confused with human smuggling, trafficking involves forceful, coercion or fraudulent recruiting, harboring or obtaining an individual for labor services or commercial sex actions. The former entails willing participants who are moved across international borders. This proves the distinguishing feature as inhuman activity may arise in the home country when one is forced into servitude. Considering that human trafficking may stretch from local to international scenes, this demands of the jurisdictions involved to cooperate during the investigation, prosecution and sentencing criminals, alongside rehabilitating the victims.

The worrying feature of human trafficking is its fast growth to topple other criminal activities leaving it to occupy the second spot. Mainly, this is a scaring trend in the states with weak legislative framework as such reveals a slow eradication process. Instead of matching the vigor exhibited by the traffickers who exploit the easy platform of propagating the business, they encounter little deterrent from the existing laws.

For many, the trafficking activities invoke images of frightened victims snatched away at night and sold in distant land. While this shows the platform the industry greatly depends upon to terrorize their targets into silence, the traffickers have embraced an online marketplace. The discovery of the new and hidden outlet enables them peddle their victims unnoticed. This makes the enforcement process difficult owing to its logistical consumption and layers the officers have to navigate.

The complementary process offered by the office of attorney general to the policies implemented by the federal government, seeks to initiate progressive crackdown in the state. Initially, the office seeks to attain a declined rate by increasing the penalties levied on prosecuted perpetrators. Moreover, the office assumed a forefront campaign by engaging awareness work groups and training sessions. For example, the 2011 coordinated training with the criminal justice services aimed to attain a speedy prosecution process.

Inviting the participation of the general public members through calls for whistle-blowers proves an integral source of eliminating the roots of the trafficking rings. Although this is enough evidence of the attention to administer justice to these victims, the special funding of rehabilitation process reveals commitment accorded. Besides the financial assistance, the integration process comprising offering shelter and counseling shows the priority in healing the unforgettable wounds inflicted upon the victims.

Unlike the customary perception that the criminals targeted individual from specific regions and background, the present activities have spread. This threatens the public safety of human race as their victims are drawn across all races and socioeconomic class. In view of this, every individual remains exposed to traffickers irrespective of their place of residence.

Despite the additional resources and training offered to law enforcement agencies, the end of trafficking remains doubtful. For that reason, most organizations fighting against human trafficking have resorted to using public awareness and training. This aims to highlight the issues showing erosion of human dignity to encourage public participation in ending the vice at its source.




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