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  Human Trafficking has been around since Ancient Mesopotamian times. It began around the same time as slavery and became very popular by the end of the nineteenth century. Human trafficking hit a high in South East Asia during the industrial times because wealthy men were willing to pay for sex. The sex industry experienced another increase after the start of the Vietnam War. South East Asia never used to be a part of the mass prostitution, but now media coverage of the rampant sex industry has led to a rise in sex tourism. Cambodia is one of the biggest areas were sex trafficking is promoted. In Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where the most prevalent brothel villages are located, there was one room found that the many prisoners sleep in together. Women and children were forced to receive as many as twenty clients per day regardless of whether they are sick or menstruating and many victims were forced to have sex without condoms because their clients refused to use one. As a result, one study found that almost forty percent of victims in Cambodia alone test for HIV POSITIVE. Today, Asian women are sold to North American brothels for $16,000 each and 2 million children are forced into prostitution every year, half of them come from Asia. More History! **  In 3000 BC - 300 AD , Slavery, forced prostitution, and sexual exploitation was a part of many ancient cultures, including the Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, and Persians. 
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In 1441 European slave trading began in Africa. The African men were forced to do hard labor in Europe and the Caribbean, while African women were exploited for labor and sexual services.  In 1885 William and Catherine Booth, the founders of Salvation Army and anti-slavery movement leaders, helped establish the //Criminal Amendment Act//, by rising the age of sexual consent in Britain from 13 to 16, and getting worldwide attention about the issue of forced prostitution.   Even though there have been many organizations set up in the past such as, Maiti Nepal, crusades for the prevention of girl trafficking, International Justice Mission, Global Network to Protect Children Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation, and Human Rights Watch Campaign Against the Trafficking of Women and Girls, the rates of sex trafficking have not decreased. In 1949, the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others was put into act. It was supposed to decrease the number of sex trafficked victims, but it only put more ineffective rules out such as, people who know about brothels and do not report them or engage activity in them will be severely penalized. The people running brothels certainly will not report themselves and the woman and children involved won't either because of threats put up against them and their families. Who is the Target? **  Victims have been women that were lured into trafficking with the promise of a good job in another country and the woman agrees to move away, unaware of the dangers ahead. W omen have also received false marriage proposals from men who plan to sell them. Prisoners also include young girls who have been sold into the sex trade by their parents, who are trying to get a little money. The overall way pimps get ahold of women or children for trafficking is just to simply kidnap them.  Sex trafficking consists of 90 percent women and girls, and over 50,000 women are trafficked into the United States every year. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> []
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