The act of sex trafficking has been around for many years and has always been a problem. This industry harms the lives of millions of people every year and yet little is done to stop it. Trafficking is defined as the act of forcing a person to do something, and in this case it is forcing people to sell their bodies for sexual purposes (Morrison 9). The sex trafficking industry began in 1994 and brings in staggering sums of money, ranging from five to seven billion dollars per year for slave owners (7). This industry is present in many countries, including Spain, Russia, India, Germany, Brazil, the United States, Mexico and most of Eastern Europe. These are just a few of the major countries that participate in human sex trafficking, but the United Nations estimates that 127 countries are involved in this sector and that between two and four million people are victims of sex trafficking today. traffic in the world (7). These numbers are so significant that this industry has been identified as the fastest growing industry in the world (7). Among these large countries, those present in Europe are considered the worst in this sector (Andrijasevic 26). These countries transport between 700,000 and 1.5 million people (Goodey 26). Anyone can be a victim of sex trafficking, but it is often women and children who find themselves caught up in this industry. Most often, women between the ages of sixteen and nineteen are the main targets. The reason these girls are the biggest targets is because they try to leave their homes to move to bigger cities or countries like France, Spain, and Germany (Andrijasevic 24). These men who own them offer to buy them a visa to these countries and a plane ticket to get there (24). After a...... middle of paper ......D. “Human Rights or Wrongs? The Struggle for a Rights-Based Response to Human Trafficking.” Gender and Development 10.1, Trafficking and Slavery (2002): 28-37. Web. Morrison, John. “Trafficking and smuggling of refugees, the end of European asylum policy? (2000): 1-104. UNHCR. Internet. April 2011. Pearson, Elaine. “Half-hearted protection: what does protecting victims of trafficking in Europe really mean?” » Gender and development 10.1, Trafficking and slavery (2002): 56-59. Web.Withdrawal, Francine. “More but no action? Forced migration and trafficking in women.” Gender and Development 6.1 (1998): 44-51. Web.Stone, Anya and Martina Vandenberg. “How the Sex Trade Becomes a Slave Trade: Trafficking Women to Israel.” Middle East Report .211, Traffic and Transit: New Perspectives on Labor Migration (1999): 36-38. Internet.