Human Trafficking is the third largest illegal trade in the world; some say that within a decade that it will outstrip the other illegal trades: guns and narcotics. In 2000 George Bush sigend the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. This act helps victims of human trafficking to be treated as victims and not as criminals. They get special visas that allow them to stay in the country for up to three years in exchange for their assistance in investigations and prosecutions of traffickers. This act also categorizes each county into 3 tiers. Tier 3 are the countries that are doing little or nothing to help fight trafficking and tier 1 are the countires that are actively fighting trafficking. Currently there are approx. 29 countries in tier 1, approx. 70 in tier2, apporox. 40 in tier 2 watch list, apporox. 14 in teir 3 and approx. 16 with no teir rating.
An estimated 600,000-800,000 people are trafficked each year world wide, 80% of that is women and children. These people come from all over the world for Asia to Africa and even Europe and the United States. The United States is a destination country. 18,000-20,000 people are trafficked into the US annually. The women and children are trafficked mostly for prostitution but also for servants. In most countries the men are trafficked for labor work, the 3-D jobs: dirty, difficult and dangerous. Out of the 6000,000-800,000 people that are trafficked each year around 25,000 woman and children come for Bangladesh and around 400,000 are Ukrainian woman. In Albania around 90% of the girls are afraid to go to school because they might get abducted and sold into prostitution.
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There's got to be more going on today than just that!! And again, the way you worded some things...didn't work so well in my brain.
Try to state more details about each fact. That way you can add "paragraphs" and its also easier to lengthen it.
Overall, this is well-done. I would like to see more of a conclusion to the post-- intro, body, conclusion even on a blog.
Here is a mini-punctuation tip for you-- use a colon (:) when you are providing a list. Use a semi-colon (;) when you're joining two independent clauses. So, the "3-D jobs: dirty, dangerous..."
Nuts! "In Albania around 90% of the girls are afraid to go to school because they might get abducted and sold into prostitution." that stood out to me most. Also, what tier is America in? A, i assume because of Bush's thing, but u never know, because that was in 2000.....
note, couple of spaces missing, and word abbreviations i would suggest replacing...
Thats insane i had no idea human trafficking was such a big deal
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