...Prostitution is defined as providing sexual services for money. Even though prostitutes are paid for their services, all prostitution causes harm to women and children because prostitution violates human rights and exposes them to many diseases. Prostitution has many different faces in the sex industry. Most sex industries try to undergo different names like escort services, massage brothels, strip clubs, adult and child pornography and outcall services. No matter what name one may consider prostitution is wrong, and it should be banned from every country. Human Rights How does prostitution violate human rights? “Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that all humans should be guaranteed, such as the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law” (“Human Rights,” 2009). Prostitution violates all these rights because women and children are forced to have sexual encounters with strangers, are treated as if they are nothing better than sex, and are robbed of their freedom. Most prostitutes are controlled by pimps or trafficking services. Falling victim of prostitution Many prostitutes are victims of violence by pimps. The following picture shows a pimp choking and verbal abusing a female prostitute. Abuse such as this one is the number one reason female prostitutes believe they are obligated to stay in the business of being a sex slave. We as a nation need to protect women and children from this type of violence. By banning...
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...Human Trafficking Human trafficking is a multimillion dollar epidemic that occurs in every country in the world. Essentially, it is modern day slavery. According to the United Nations, human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation or receiving of persons with the intent of exploitation in any form. Victims of human trafficking are recruited by the use of force, fear, promise of a better life, along with many other things to convince an individual to go with the trafficker. Trafficking is done for the exploitation of an individual this includes prostitution, slavery, and forced labour. Since the early 1990’s, the UNODC (United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime) has been working on a prevention plan for human trafficking and The Protocol to Prevent, Supress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons was developed. It states that “In addition to the criminalization of trafficking, the Trafficking in Persons Protocol requires criminalization also of persons whom attempt to commit a trafficking offence, the participation as an accomplice in such an offence, or organizing or directing others to commit trafficking” (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2012). This means that anyone who participates in human trafficking, be it the recruitment of victims or knowingly hiring a victim, will be criminalized for his or her actions. Canada is a destination for human trafficking. The highest percentage of individuals being smuggled into Canada are used for sexual exploitation, prostitution...
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...and Tanneeru). It is very important to define what slavery is. A broadly accepted definition has been hard to define. CNN has defined as: Slavery occurs when one person completely controls another person, using violence or the threat of violence to maintain that control, exploits them economically, pays them nothing and they cannot walk away (CNN Freedom Project). Human Trafficking as defined by the U.N. Trafficking protocol as “the recruitment, transport, transfer, harbouring or receipt of a person by such means as threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, or fraud or deception for the purpose of exploitation." The definition on trafficking consists of three core elements: 1) The action of trafficking which means the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons. 2) The means of trafficking which includes threat of or use of force, deception, coercion, abuse of power or position of vulnerability. 3) The purpose of trafficking which is always exploitation. In the words of the Trafficking Protocol, article 3 "exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs. It is the modern day slave trade – the process of enslaving a person. (Free the Slaves). Exploitation of another human being is the...
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...Brett Guthrie said, “To protect our kids, we've given law enforcement new tools to fight human trafficking.” (Brainy 1). Human trafficking in the United States is very difficult to try and estimate. The human trafficking task force was created for that specific reason. The human trafficking task forces main objective is creating an end to human trafficking, one of the largest criminal enterprises worldwide. This task force was created around 2004. They plan on attacking at three fronts: prosecuting violators, protecting victims, and preventing trafficking (Counter. 1012). The three fronts are placed into position whether it is in the funding, legislation, and how they train law enforcement. They are teams with the goal of providing a broad...
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...Human Trafficking Valarie Plummer, William Halstead, Kipp Ferrebee, Makayla Gilliam, Talisha Winston BSHS 302 September 19, 2001 Stephanie Chupein Human Trafficking Human trafficking is a complex problem that is affecting the world in the 21st century. It is a crime of exploitation of people who either willingly choose to be exploited because of poor economic conditions and of people who are the unwilling victims of criminal acts that force them to work as virtual slaves or prostitutes. It shouldn’t matter if the labor that is done by the exploited party is physical labor or prostitution; human trafficking is a serious violation of a person’s human rights. It is a modern form of slavery that should have no place in a modern, civilized society. The continued exploitation of human beings—men, women, and children—is a crime against humanity. It is also a symptom of a world that has yet to meet the goal of recognizing that we are all the same and that we are interconnected. It is a crime that demonstrates a clear lack of the value that we are all brothers and sisters. It is the continued victimization of people who are most in need of help. It is the willful and deliberate act of taking advantage of human beings by forcing them into forced slave labor or sexual exploitation. It is a form of modern slavery and it should have no place in modern society. Human trafficking is not just a problem in the so-called Third World. It is not just a problem in countries with a high...
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...Vanessa Romero Per.5 Gang violence hurts families, communities, and jail does not help they need educated. According to Pope John Paul II violence is a crime against humanity for it destroys the very fabric of society. Violent crimes in the U.S have fallen sharply over the past quarter century. Meaning they have expanded not just outside of the world, inside jails, but also inside schools. There are a large geographic violation in crime rates. The FBI Uniform Crime Reports states that 65% of crime violation and that all around the U.S. Violent and Crime shouldn’t have to be 65% all around the U.S it is ruining our in environment and everyone in the environment. Drugs and alcohol are very destructive. Gang members are more likely to...
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...Civil rights Even though we had the civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jr, not everyone is free in America. Examples of people not having the same rights as others and injustices would be different standards of schooling between areas, ICE choosing to deport people based on posts from social media, and the sex trafficking going on in America. These issues are of huge importance if we are to grow as a country. A Great example of lack of civil rights is Ice and the fact that they are using a machine to deport people. (ICE) announced it would be using technology like machine learning to automatically vet every visitor to the United States. Under this plan — known as the “Extreme Vetting Initiative” ICE would continuously scan “media, blogs, public hearings, conferences, academic websites, social media websites such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn,” and unidentified “internet sites” to automatically flag a minimum of 10,000 people per year for deportation or visa renewal. Tech experts say that the Extreme Vetting...
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...Twenty years ago, this problem experience mainly in Western Europe and United States. But today drug abuse has become a problem of all society. It knows no boundaries, either geographical or economical. AIM 2. The aim of my presentation is to analyze the drug abuse in short and find out the probable solutions to eradicate this social problem. SEQUENCE OF PRESENTATION 3. The sequence of my presentation is given below: a. Definition b. Commonly used drugs c. Causes of drug abuse d. Effects on individual e. Effects on the society f. Drugs in Bangladesh 1 RESTRICTED g. Trafficking of drug h. Prevention or fighting back i. Conclusion j. Question and Answer session. DEFINITION 4. Before giving the definition of drug abuse we should know what is drug and abuse. A drug is broadly speaking any substance that when absorbed into the body of living organism alters normal bodily function. In pharmacology it is a chemical substance used in treatment, cure, prevention or diagnosis any disease or used to enhance physical or mental well being. Abuse means inappropriate use of any substances specially those that alters consciousness. Now we can define the drug abuse as follows: a. Drug abuse is the use of illegal drugs or the misuse of...
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...The Trafficking of Women and Children in China Imagine walking down the street to class, when all of a sudden two men come out from around the corner, grab you, and throw you into a van. After what feels like hours, the van finally arrives at a building and the men take you and put you in a small room, filled with frightened women and crying children of all ages. When asking another lady where they all were and what was going on, she explains that everyone in the room had been either sold or abducted and must now work as a prostitute to earn profits for the owners of the sex business. Human trafficking is the act of transporting, enlisting, or harboring an individual by use of force or intimidation for the sole purpose of exploitation (China). China is a source, transit, and destination country for thousands of women and children who have been either forced or sold into trafficking (China). Chinese women are often recruited by false promises of employment and are later forced into prostitution while children are often recruited by traffickers who promise their parents that they will send them a percentage of the money the child makes. Between 2001 and 2005, police in China investigated over 28,000 trafficking cases and the Chinese government arrested more than 25,000 suspected traffickers and rescued more than 35,000 victims (China). Despite this investigation, the Chinese government have not increased their efforts to stop trafficking since 2005 and claim that they...
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...a prestigious organization that offers these much-needed medical services to individuals would be on the receiving end of as much funding as possible and advocating for more and would be operating beyond approach. Why then, have States such as Arkansas, Louisiana, Utah, Alabama and New Hampshire, all taken steps to defund Medicaid payments to this ‘prestigious’ organization? What would be that line that had to have been crossed to pave the way for such drastic actions? Is it justified? The answer, human trafficking and a resounding ‘yes’ for its justifiability! Planned Parenthood offers a number of services for women mostly, who otherwise cannot afford proper medical care or even mediocre medical care at best. So when Arkansas Governor, Asa Hutchinson, held a press conference covered by news outlets such as MSNBC and ABC news in August 2015, to put an end to Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood, despite numerous Federal warnings, only to join other States who had already done so, was a monumental move and an in depth review had to be undertaken. The cause, required little searching. Human trafficking, the illegal selling of body parts. Who would think a prestigious organization such as this would be...
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...problem that many people are working to solve. Countries all over the world face the organ shortage epidemic, and they all have different laws regarding what can be done to solve it. However, no country has been able to create a successful plan without causing moral and ethical dilemmas. The organ shortage is at a critical level, and unless a better system is devised, it will continue to get worse. The debate on whether to legalize and regulate organ trade through the free market has become a very controversial issue in the last decade. The shortage of organs is a problem the increases dramatically every day. In 2010, there were more than 112,000 people on the organ waiting list in the United States. However, there were only 14,507 donors. Of those donors, only 6,564 were "live donors" (UNOS, 2010). Organ trafficking is rising in popularity due to the constant increase in demand for organs and the continuous decrease in supply. Trafficking is the illegal trade of human organs such as the heart, liver, and, most commonly, the kidneys which are used for transplantation. Think about that one show or movie where an unsuspecting person goes out for a drink while on a business trip in a foreign country, then wakes up in a bathtub full of ice, in agonizing pain, and some badly done up stitches in their back- that's organ trafficking. Every year, about 70,000 kidneys are transplanted...
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...Introduction The topic I chose to write about is Sex Trafficking. I was very interested in finding out what happens to children that are abducted, missing, and runaways. There are many articles and stories about missing people in the media. Having two children of my own, it’s kind of scary to even think about them being missing or abducted. I see children at various age groups walking alone and I wonder, where are their parents? I could never allow my children out alone and unsupervised, knowing that something can happen to them. Just recently, I read an article about an under covered sex trafficking scheme in South Saint Louis, Kansas City, and in Springfield, Illinois. Sex trafficking is really becoming an epidemic and it’s happening...
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...Mexican Dream: Drug Cartels The American dream, a dream that does not come true for every man or woman that is in search of it. According to Ellies, the American dream represent: “each person has the right to pursue happiness, and the freedom to strive for a better life through hard work and fair ambition.” But, would not that same dream be the dream for Germans, French, Spanish, Brazilians and every single country in the world? The truth is that according to the level of access a person has in order to pursue happiness and to strive for a better life has been indisputably the gap among developed and undeveloped countries for decades. However, hard work does not seem to be the key factor to achieve happiness and/or a better life. Then, what does? During the beginning of the 1980’s decade, Mexico among other Latin-American countries started to adopt Structural Adjustment Programs (SAP) sponsored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) in response to the neo-liberal ideology that was starting to spread around the world as the avenue for global well-being. The World Health Organization states that Structural Adjustment Programs: “were economic policies for developing countries that have been promoted by the WB and IMF since the early 1980s by the provision of loans conditional on the adoption of such policies.” The economic policies promoted by the IMF and WB were meant to encourage the structural adjustment of an economy by, for example, removing excess...
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...(slavery). “Although it’s the 14th largest economy in the world, rural Mexico is still very unequal. Depending on the measure, between one-third and one-half of Mexicans live in poverty and up to 18 percent live in extreme poverty, unable to meet their basic food needs.” ("Bread For The World Institute", 2011). In this paper I will discuss death rates, risks and benefits (to include programs) of crossing through the desert for an undetermined future in the United States of America. I will also focus on the trafficking and prostitution rings between the United States and Central America. By the end of this paper I will have explained how and why these issues of Central American’s immigrating into the United States meet the specifications of the Social Structure Theory because of the poverty disturbance in their system. * Understanding the Social Structure Theory Moffitt (2015), “Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was an English philosopher. Spencer compared society to a human body. In the same way each part of the body works in harmony with other parts, each part of society works in harmony with all other parts. If we want to understand the...
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...CQ Researcher Published by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc. thecqresearcher.com Human Trafficking and Slavery Are the world’s nations doing enough to stamp it out? F rom the villages of Sudan to the factories, sweatshops and brothels of India and South Asia, slavery and human trafficking still flourish. Some 27 million people worldwide are held in some form of slavery, forced prostitution or bonded labor. Some humanitarian groups buy captives’ freedom, but critics say that only encourages slave traders to seize more victims. Meanwhile, nearly a million people Abducted from her village in southern Sudan when she was 6 years old, Akuac Malong was enslaved in northern Sudan until she was freed at age 13. are forcibly trafficked across international borders annually and held in captivity. Even in the United States, thousands of women and children from overseas are forced to become sex workers. Congress recently strengthened the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, but critics say it is still not tough enough, and that certain U.S. allies that harbor traffickers are treated with “kid gloves” for political reasons. I N S I D E THIS ISSUE THE ISSUES ......................275 BACKGROUND ..................282 CHRONOLOGY ..................283 CURRENT SITUATION ..........287 AT ISSUE ..........................289 OUTLOOK ........................291 The CQ Researcher • March 26, 2004 • www.thecqresearcher.com Volume...
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