HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Human Trafficking is essentially modern times slavery that no one seems to be flinching at. It has many forms which include: Sex Trafficking, Forced Labor, Debt Bondage, Forced Marriage, Child Soldier Recruitment, Child Labor and marriages, Domestic Servitude, Organ Trafficking and many more actions that have been normalized to the African communities that they no longer react to it in any way.

Human Trafficking is a very complex issue in East Africa due to lingering and cross-cutting conflict issues that are rising in the region, some of which are:

• Protracted, recurring and old conflicts in a region usually leaves people normalizing some “illicit” actions to make ends meet (drug trafficking, smuggling of immigrants, sex exchange and child soldiers’ recruitment).
  
  
• Trafficking is not easily identified as trafficking in some cases. (i.e child marriage is something very common in some conservative cultures, and so it is highly overlooked, and so it needs very detailed protection and prevention schemes to justify the shortcomings of such a predicament)
  
  
• The great supply and demand structures of trafficking (especially in drug and organ trafficking which are very common forms in poverty-stricken communities).