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    Human Trafficking Essay

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    This document discusses human trafficking through the framework of human security theory. It analyzes how human trafficking affects the seven elements of human security as defined by the 1994 UN report: economic security, food security, health security, environmental security, personal security, community security, and political security. It argues that personal security is most severely impacted, as victims of trafficking experience psychological and physical harm, disease, and violations of basic human rights like freedom and security. By applying the human security lens, the document illustrates how human trafficking undermines individual and societal security.

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    Human Trafficking Essay

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    This document discusses human trafficking through the framework of human security theory. It analyzes how human trafficking affects the seven elements of human security as defined by the 1994 UN report: economic security, food security, health security, environmental security, personal security, community security, and political security. It argues that personal security is most severely impacted, as victims of trafficking experience psychological and physical harm, disease, and violations of basic human rights like freedom and security. By applying the human security lens, the document illustrates how human trafficking undermines individual and societal security.

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    This document discusses human trafficking through the framework of human security theory. It analyzes how human trafficking affects the seven elements of human security as defined by the 1994 UN report: economic security, food security, health security, environmental security, personal security, community security, and political security. It argues that personal security is most severely impacted, as victims of trafficking experience psychological and physical harm, disease, and violations of basic human rights like freedom and security. By applying the human security lens, the document illustrates how human trafficking undermines individual and societal security.

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    Human Trafficking Essay

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    Iulia Sutru
    This document discusses human trafficking through the framework of human security theory. It analyzes how human trafficking affects the seven elements of human security as defined by the 1994 UN report: economic security, food security, health security, environmental security, personal security, community security, and political security. It argues that personal security is most severely impacted, as victims of trafficking experience psychological and physical harm, disease, and violations of basic human rights like freedom and security. By applying the human security lens, the document illustrates how human trafficking undermines individual and societal security.

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    What does the security issue look like when reflected through

    that theory?

    In order to present this issue, Human Security was applied as a framework


    because it is the most appropriate theory to look at the multiples consequences
    that human trafficking has on the society and on individuals. Human security
    focuses not on the military part but on the societal and political factors that
    reduce the security of a state Shelley (2009; p10). This shows exactly that
    trafficking is an economic and human rights issue that calls for a regional
    solution. This security issue reflected through Human Security theory illustrates
    that human trafficking fulfils almost all the aspect considered as human security
    issues. For example, the fact that individuals are seen as the main victims,
    followed by the community. The victims are predisposed to hunger, affronts to
    human dignity, disease, the threats to the livelihoods, in addition to other
    violence.
    According to the 1994 Report, Human Security is divided in includes seven
    specific elements that comprise human security: economic security (e.g.,
    freedom from poverty); food security (e.g., access to food); health security (e.g.,
    access to health care and protection from disease); environmental security (e.g.
    environmental pollution); personal security (e.g., physical safety from such
    things as torture, war, criminal attacks, domestic violence, drug use, suicide, and
    even traffic accidents); community security (e.g., survival of traditional cultures
    and ethnic groups as well as the physical security of these groups); and political
    security (e.g., enjoyment of civil and political rights, and freedom from political
    oppression)
    Personal security is the most affected when comes to human trafficking because
    the victims experience psychological and physical harm, including diseases, has
    often permanent effects violating human values like the right to life, the right to
    freedom and the right to security. Personal security can be defined as the lack of
    physical safety from such things as torture, criminal attacks and domestic
    violence. Exploitation of prostitution of others or other forms of sexual
    exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery
    Human security engaged the broad principles of freedom from want and freedom
    from fear. The persons that are trafficked experience the Freedom from Fear,
    because they are private from liberty; nowadays it is considered a modern form
    of slavery and constitutes violation of the human rights. All trafficking victims
    share one essential experience: the loss of freedom.
    The European enlargement comes along with the Freedom of movement of
    individuals is one of the main objectives stated in the Rome Treaty that must be
    achieved in order to accomplish a common market.

    According to the United Nations (UN), trafficking in persons "shall mean 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 a person having
    control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall
    include, at a minimum, the exploitation of prostitution of others or other
    forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or
    practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.

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