Provide a 8 pages analysis while answering the following question: Sex Trafficking of Women and Children in Europe. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. Human trafficking is defined as. ‘The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs” (Rathgeber, 2002 p 154)

Human trafficking is usually understood in most cases in relation to sex work, which mostly involves women and children. According to a report made by the United Nations Office on Crime and Drugs, sexual exploitation is the highest rating kind of human trafficking (at a rate of 79 %) (Rathgeber, 2002). This shows that sex trafficking is rampant not only in major economies like the USA and UK but also as an international crime.

Discussion

Smuggling generally refers to assisting a person to enter into a country illegally whereby the person being smuggled has the consent and pays the smuggler for this service. It involves international movement only. On the other hand, a person being trafficked has no consent of the act and it is therefore in most cases forceful or through the use of deception. It may be internal that is, within a country or international movement where women and girls are trafficked to other countries to be used for commercial sex work to benefit those involved in sex businesses (Weitzer, 2011). This understanding of the difference between human smuggling and human trafficking can assist in knowing the actions to be taken for the victims. Most women who are victims of sex trafficking find themselves behind bars and treated as criminals.