Sex trafficking has been around for many years and has always been a problem. This industry damages the lives of millions of people every year, yet little is being 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 originally started in 1994 and earns slave owners absurd amounts of five to seven billion dollars a year (7). This industry is present in many countries, including Spain, Russia, India, Germany, Brazil, the United States, Mexico and much of Eastern Europe. These are just some of the large countries involved in human sex trafficking, but the United Nations estimates that 127 countries are involved in this business and that between two and four million people are trafficked worldwide today (7). These numbers are so large 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 traffic 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 become trapped in this industry. Very often the main targets are women between the ages of sixteen and nineteen. The reason these girls are the main targets is because they are looking to move away from home and move to larger cities or countries such as 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... half sheet......D. "Human Rights or Mistakes? The Fight for a Rights-Based Response to Human Trafficking." Gender and Development 10.1, Trafficking and Slavery (2002): 28-37. Web.Morrison, John. “Are refugee trafficking and smuggling the end of European asylum policy?” (2000): 1-104. UNHCR. Network. April 2011.Pearson, Elaine. “Protection Uncertain: What Does Victim Protection Really Mean for Victims of Trafficking in Europe?” Gender and Development 10.1, Trafficking and Slavery (2002): 56-59. Web.Retreat, Francine. "More but no action? Forced migration and trafficking of women." Gender and Development 6.1 (1998): 44-51. Web.Stone, Anya and Martina Vandenberg. “How the Sex Trade Becomes a Slave Trade: Women Trafficking in Israel.” Middle East Report .211, Trafficking and Transit: New Perspectives on Labor Migration (1999): 36-38. Net.