More from that Paper on Trafficking

Women and girls are more vulnerable to being trafficked because of:  

• unequal access to education that limits women’s opportunities, to increase their earnings in more skilled occupations;
•  lack of legitimate and fulfilling employment opportunities particularly in rural communities;
•  sex-selective migration policies and restrictive emigration policies/laws, instituted often as a “protective” measure, limit women’s legitimate migration. Most legal channels of migration offer opportunities in typically male-dominated sectors (construction and agriculture work);
• less access to information on migration/job opportunities, recruitment channels, and a greater lack of awareness of the risks of migration compared to men;
• disruption of support systems due to natural and human created catastrophes;
• traditional community attitudes and practices, which tolerate violence against women.
• women’s perceived suitability for work in labour-intensive production and the growing informal sector which is characterized by low wages, casual employment, hazardous work conditions and the absence of collective bargaining mechanisms;
• the increasing demand for foreign workers for domestic and care-giving roles, and lack of adequate regulatory frameworks to support this; 
• the growth of the billion-dollar sex and entertainment industry, tolerated as a ‘necessary evil’ while women in prostitution are criminalized and discriminated against; 
• the low risk-high profit nature of trafficking encouraged by a lack of will on the part of enforcement agencies to prosecute traffickers (which includes owners/managers of institutions into which persons are trafficked); 
• the ease in controlling and manipulating vulnerable women; 
• lack of access to legal redress or remedies, for victims of traffickers;
• devaluation of women and children’s human rights.