There is definitely a sex trafficking and sex slavery issue in Honduras. According to the US embassy website, Honduras Is a transit country, as well as a source for sex slavery. Everyone is affected by it, whether it’s men, women or children. Because it is an agricultural based country, there is also a lot of slave labor involved with physical work as well, which does not help the situation at all. According to usembassy.gov, “Honduras is a destination for child sex tourists from Canada and the United States”. The fact that people come from that far away to see that kind of thing makes me sick to my stomach, along with many other people, and there needs to be a way to stop it. The government, as well as many NGOs in Honduras and other countries are working hard to improve the situation.
According to the article Born Free, by Sarah E. Mendelson, human trafficking is not one of the SDGs. She argues why it should be, but says every time she brings it up, it gets pushed back to the corner, or gets told that it does not matter as much, and other things matter more. People do not make human trafficking a priority unfortunately. I think if people were better educated on the subject, and it was talked about more, this would be different. I think people say it does not matter as much because they do not know fully all of the details and are not properly educated on the issue. If it was their daughter, wife, or someone that they knew who was personally affected by the issue, they would have something different to say. But because human trafficking is viewed to be a problem in majorly other poorer countries, it does not matter as much to some people.
If we want to better combat human trafficking and decrease the amount of people affected, we need to improve education on the matter, like stated above. After people are properly educated on the subject, there needs to be more funding allocated to the victims, and improving the situation in general. We also need to educate the people who are buying the victims and who think that this is okay, because obviously it is not. It is dangerous for the people being sold obviously, and anyone else who gets involved. There are many survivors from human trafficking, but unfortunately, there are also many, many people who do not survive, and we need to improve the situation so that there are more survivors and less victims.
There are always places that need more diversity, because I think that is an area that we are working on in general and not solely in one place. There could definitely be more diversity when it comes to resources and solutions to human trafficking. If there was more funding there could be more resources in helping the people affected from human trafficking, and we might be able to save more people as a result.
Sources Cited
Trafficking in Persons
https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/envision2030.html
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