Human Rights: Trafficking of Women and Children and Forced Child Labor (Pre-Writing)

Christine Montes
Professor Sturgeon
September 29, 2008

I personally have thought that slavery no longer existed. I mean, from what is portrayed on the media and in our newspapers I never envisioned slavery. Child Labor on the other hand is something that was presented to me in high school. My English showed a movie about it in class so I have an understanding of it but not a very in-depth one. Looking at it now, slavery does really exists because children, women and men are being treated like property, having to marry young, work young and have no childhood. Being forced to have no life and have their right taken from them is something I want an explanation for.

Trafficking of Women I know very little about. What I do know is that women all around the world, even here, are being treated as slaves. I take this very seriously because I too am a women and the fact that it still exist today troubles me very much. I plan to learn as much as I can because I what to spread the word to people who have no real clue about what these topics. This debate will greatly impact me and my knowledge to knowing what slavery throughout the world really is, ranging from childhood to late adulthood. The questions I have in my mind already are: How did Human Trafficking start? What is being done to stop this cruel behavior? I look forward to learning all I can.