Human trafficking is a serious crime and a serious violation of human rights. Every year, thousands of men, women and children fall into human trafficking. An estimated 12.3 million people are trafficked worldwide. On average, a single person is convicted for 800 cases of trafficking worldwide (All documents © 2014). Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation or forced labor. During medieval times, human trafficking was introduced to the world. Anyone could be a victim. Most of the victims are undocumented or residing in the United States illegally. This does not prevent American citizens from becoming victims. The reason attackers went after undocumented citizens is because no one will go to the authorities to look for them. Human trafficking involves things like sex slaves, modern slavery, and sweatshops. Most victims of human trafficking were women and girls. These women were forced to become sex slaves, the younger girls were forced to work. Most often, attackers capture women and girls, as they are generally easier to kidnap than men and boys. Around 161 countries are said to be affected by this outbreak. For some people, human trafficking is a business and they don't feel like they're doing anything wrong. They really feel like they are helping and make it their daily job. Each year, the “human trafficking industry” makes approximately $32 billion in profit worldwide. 15.5 billion are manufactured in industrialized countries and 9.7 billion in Asia. Each forced worker generates an average of $13,000 per year. This number rises to 67,200 per victim each year since...... middle of paper ...... in brothels there can be female victims of trafficking, often indicated by a group of men arriving waiting to have sex and leaving the premises after their act. Human trafficking can be stopped if people take it more seriously and look out for each other. Sometimes the need to move and the threat of trafficking can appear very suddenly, anywhere and at any time. In mid-2006, during the armed conflict in Lebanon, the United States became aware that traffickers were targeting approximately 300,000 domestic workers from Sri Lanka, Ethiopia and the Philippines, left behind when their foreign employers were evacuated. Having suddenly lost their livelihoods and official resident status, people quickly became more vulnerable. As embassies struggled to help their nationals, trafficking gangs offered other life options (Copyright©2014 UNODC, All rights reserved).).