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HUMAN TRAFFICKING

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What is 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).

Quick fact check

  • Today, approximately 30-40 million people are living in conditions of modern slavery and prone to human trafficking

  • Internationally, only about 0.04% survivors of human trafficking cases are identified, meaning that the vast majority of cases of human trafficking go undetected.

  • Over 400,000 people in Africa are victims of sexual exploitation. According to the International Labour Office, women and girls account for over 70% of these victims, while 21% of all victims are children under the age of 18.

  • 23% of global human trafficking takes place in Africa. According to the 2018 Global Slavery Index, over 9.2 million people living in Africa are living in modern slavery. This makes up nearly a quarter of all human trafficking around the globe.

 

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Wajir, Kenya

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Rusinga Island, Kenya

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