Being considered Sub-human and the T.I.P "Trafficking in Persons Report"

Upon reading chapter two in Half the Sky, written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn , I was instantly drawn to the idea that young girls are specifically sought out and trafficked based on their status in society. On the second page of the chapter when the author Nick asks a officer about the girls that are trafficked and made sex slaves the officers responds, " Oh, yes, but those are the peasant girls. They can't even read. They're from the countryside. The good Indian girl are safe." Basically what the officer was implying was that because these girls were not per-say educated or wealthy they deserved to be put in brothels and sold like candy. While reading this piece I felt as though the officer had marked the girls almost sub-human like. Later the author talks about this idea of being "sub-human" when he says, " People get away with enslaving village girls for the same reason that people got away with enslaving blacks two hundred years ago: There victims are perceived as discounted humans". This is true, in history time and time again it has been shown that people who ruled over another people felt as though those being oppressed were "subservient" to them. The idea of another human being lower in status than another always baffles me because we are all the same. If genetically we are all pretty much the same (except for a few) then how can we treat another person so badly. The idea of trafficking connects to the "Trafficking in Persons report" which is one of the many ways the United States is trying to stop the idea of human trafficking world wide. This report takes statistics world wide and produces a compilations of the number of humans being trafficked as well as the different governments progress towards stopping it. Yes, in American we have our share of prostitutes and trafficking, but we are striving to correct that. The T.I.P is process encouraging other countries to join in the fight against trafficking. The article later states that ," The 2011 report reflects upgrades for 23 countries in recognition of progress made and downgrades for 22 countries demonstrating sparse victim protections, desultory implementation, or inadequate legal structures. Of 37 countries ranked Tier 2 Watch List in 2010 and facing a possible statutory downgrade to Tier 3....", this kind of progress is what we like to see. Although there has been progress in this area what about the cultures like in Nepali where the idea of prostitutes and human trafficking is considered a natural process there. Countries where the poorer are stripped of their basic human rights to make their own decision for the happiness or the "protection" of others.