McNish, Alan. "The 'Modern Slavery ' of Trafficking." BBC News. N.p., 25 Sept. 2012. Web. 28 Nov. 2012.…
Sex trafficking is a medium of modern slavery in which people perform commercial sex through the use of fraud, force, and coercion. It is a crime and a huge offense to the laws the U.S. has set in place as a nation. Approximately 4.5 million people are victims of this crime a year; close to 800,000 of those people reside within the U.S. borders. Men and women under the age of 18 engaging in commercial sex are considered to be victims of human trafficking, regardless of the use of force, fraud, or coercion. Sex traffickers frequently target weak, desperate, and naive victims and then use violence, threats, lies, debt bondage, or other forms of control and manipulation to keep victims involved in the sex industry for their own profit. Many of these criminals have been known to lure in their prey with acts of love or attention to the effect that some victims can remain blind to their afflictions and enslavement for long periods of time.…
Over the past several years, human trafficking has become a sizable world-wide problem. Human Trafficking has had a considerable affect on the World and United States. To combat this, several laws and initiatives have been enacted. While this allows for some headway in combating this problem, there are still several things that we can do to help. This review of literature on Human Trafficking focuses on these areas and provides the information on the steps that can help combat this epidemic.…
Sex trafficking is a problem around the world. The United States State Department estimates that roughly 700,000 to 2 million women and girls are smuggled across borders every year. Eastern Europe is where much of the initial selling occurs. This black market 's sales are comparable to the slave trade in United States history, and is equivalent to the sale of cattle. Sex trafficking refers to the movement of women and children for purposes of prostitution or some other form of sexual slavery. According to Interpol, it includes "the recruitment, transportation, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, or deception. [Also used is] the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of one person having control over another, for the purpose of exploitation." Women and children are trafficked for sex or sexually related things.…
With the help of great advancements in communication and modes of transportation within the last several decades, many lucrative businesses have come and gone. These recent developments have not only facilitated legitimate transnational business and boosted the global economy, but it has also helped illegitimate business and the black market. Additionally, these great advancements have also lowered the costs of transportation and communication. Many say that these are all effects of globalization, but I believe that there has to be other underlying reasons for this. Globalization as the reason would be a very easy way to dismiss the issue. Moreover, just as legitimate business is regulated, illegitimate should be overseen as well in order to mitigate its effects and eradicate if at all possible. Specifically, I will be focusing on human trafficking originating in Asia and what key international economic organizations and nongovernmental organizations are doing to identify and stop this problem.…
Hilary L. Surratt, PhD, Associate Scientist for the Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies at the University of Delaware, et. al., in the July 2005 Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality study titled "The Connections of Mental Health Problems, Violent Life Experiences, and the Social Milieu of the 'Stroll' with the HIV Risk Behaviors of Female Street Sex Workers," wrote:…
Using the outline below, write a five- to seven-page review of the movie that deals with social issues:…
A bit of history on the topic Human Trafficking and where it comes from. There are a lot of different arguments about when human trafficking could have started. Some say that the slave trade that involved Africans being captured by slave traders and shipped across the Atlantic to America was the first human trafficking. Others argue that the forced labor of children during the 1700s was the real beginning of what is now known as human trafficking. Human trafficking for sexual purposes was first legally recognized by the term 'white slavery'. According to Kristiina Kangaspunta the Executive Officer of the Applied Research Program of the UNICRI branch of the United Nations. 'White slavery' is when a white woman or girl- by the use of force, drugs, or by dishonesty- for sex which is unwanted by the woman or girl. Kristiina Kangapunta, has also argued that international governments began to discuss 'white slavery' after the transatlantic slave trade was made illegal. (T. Mills Kelly, Human Trafficking in Historical Perspective, August 2012) (University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Conference Agenda, 2012)…
: To inform my audience about the global issue of human trafficking and how to stop it.…
Prostitution also known as sex trafficking or human trafficking is a multi-million dollar industry and though some believe it doesn't happen in America it is. In the article, it says “there are between 600,000 and 800,000 people trafficked across the U.S. border—half of them are children, and 80 percent of them are female.” In Montgomery Illinois, a guy was having people pay for women to have sexual relations with them “supplying adult women to customers in Montgomery, Bucks, Philadelphia, Chester and Delaware Counties who paid for the women's sexual services.” He was caught and will serve time in county jail, and will then be deported. “Trafficking victims can often be recruited into the sex trade by someone they know, lured in by promises…
Most feminists believe that prostitution exploits and objectifies women. Simultaneously, both Simone de Beauvoir and Andrea Dworkin felt that the institution of marriage was also a form of prostitution. They both agreed that both marriage and prostitution are extremely oppressive and dangerous for women. In Simon de Beauvoir's Prostitutes and Hetairas, she said, "The only difference between prostitution and those who sell themselves into marriage, is in the price and length of the contract (de Beavoir, pg. 555)." In Feminism: An Agenda, Andrea Dworkin said that in marriage women lose rights over their own bodies. "You must have sex with your husband when he wants. That is his legal right and your obligation." She went on to say that "In marriage you only have to make a deal with one man (Dworkin, pg. 146)."…
Human Trafficking involves abducting and moving the victim against his or her will. Human trafficking is caused by the dangers of being in a foreign country and poverty. Both of these causes have the same effect: being a victim in human trafficking. Foreign vacationing or wanting to work in a foreign country is very common, but many people do not know the dangers of it.…
Roughly 27 million people in the world are affected by human trafficking. The majority of these people being trafficked are used as sex slaves. For people who don’t know what human trafficking is, it is the exploitation of men, women, and children for commercial gain. We all hear about sex trafficking in regions such as Africa and Central and South America, but sex trafficking is literally right on our door step.…
This paper presents a comprehensive review of current literature on human trafficking into and within the United States. This review of the literature is part of a larger study funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, to examine how HHS programs are currently addressing the needs of victims of human trafficking, including domestic victims, with a priority focus on domestic youth. This study is also structured to identify barriers and promising practices for addressing the needs of victims of human trafficking, with a goal of informing current and future program design and improving services to this extremely vulnerable population.…
Prostitution in Olongapo City and Angeles City was highly prominent during the time of the U.S. military bases called Subic Bay Naval Base and Clark Air Base, respectively.[4][5] When Mount Pinatubo, a volcano, erupted in 1991, it destroyed most of Clark Air Base and the US closed it down in 1992.…