Human Trafficking

There is little knowledge about the issue of Human Trafficking. I became interested in this issue when I was watching Oprah last year. This topic was brought up again when Natalie Halloway, the senior who was kidnapped while on her senior trip last year, was in the news and was suspected to have entered the traffcking system. In relation to economics, those who are in charge of the traffcking can be compared to gang leaders; they earn the money and boss around those who are lower than them. To define human trafficking, it is the transporting and selling both willing and unwilling human beings to become slaves either sexually or to do work around the house. Money drives every aspect of the trafficking industry from the brokers to the buyers. Most of the traffcking goes on in lower income countries but is beginning to spread into more prosperous countries because there is more money involved. I find this whole thing disgusting and a crime against human nature. Is there a difference if the human is willing as compared to being an unwilling slave?