UK to join fight against human trafficking

Greg Garraway
4/8/11
Blog 11
7:30 A.M
UK to join fight against human trafficking
In this article I chose, the United Kingdom is going to sign up to Europe wide measures against human trafficking. Britain and Denmark had not signed up and the government was criticized for failing to opt in to the directive earlier. The new law brings about better protection for the victims of trafficking as well as increase the chance of prosecuting the gangs that exploit them. "More than 700 suspected cases of trafficking were referred to the UK Human Trafficking Centre, a multi-agency body, in the year to March 2010. Three-quarters of the victims were women and almost half the cases involved sexual exploitation."
Analysis: Human trafficking is becoming a huge problem and due to the rising numbers in such crime it is necessary for countries to step up their laws and punishment for commiting such crimes. Human trafficking is the illegal trade in human beings for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation or forced labor , a modern-day form of slavery. It is great that many countries are stepping up to prevent this from occurring. The exploitation people for another ones gain is wrong. The future will bring about more crime but it is also good that many nations are stepping up their enforcement and are trying to protect its people. The crime everywhere is getting worse and it only shows how the future is looking more grim. Thus it is time for other nations to look to one another and see how others are trying to protect its people and change laws to help and prevent more crime.




http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/uk-to-join-fight-against-human-trafficking-2250047.html