...Human trafficking is an organized criminal activity in which human beings are treated as possessions to be controlled and exploited (Merriam Webster, 1). There are many devastating statistics correlated with this issue such as the fact that an average of 700,000 women and children are trafficked worldwide earning profits of over $7 billion (Veenstra, para.1). However, the conclusion can be made that females experience the majority of the abuse that is associated with the crime of trafficking which is motivated by the constant perception of women as inferior and insignificant individuals deserving of mistreatment. Despite the advance of women’s right in North America, there are still many countries reluctant to change their values and give girls...
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...A Look at Human Trafficking Nicole Kohrmann Liberty University Abstract There is a world full of passionate people that want to bring awareness to human trafficking. Human trafficking exists on a global level affecting many men, women and children, in a variety of countries. Although there are some case studies available that involve this criminal activity, the lack of recorded data complicates the continued progress forward on the awareness of the real existence of human trafficking. The lack of data has a lot to do with the covert nature of human trafficking and the hidden activity that it is. The government will need to continue to amend the laws that are already in place, in order to prevent and catch traffickers before they reach their victims. Strong training for our law enforcement, our healthcare providers and any other agencies that may be involved also needs to be put in place. Continuing to create awareness will bring human trafficking to the surface for a difference to be made in the lives of the victims. Introduction On a global level human trafficking is an issue that continues to gain increasing awareness, as agencies in human services, law enforcement and health care professionals become more involved and aware of the problem. Human trafficking, according to the United Nations convention, is defined as; “the recruitment, transportation, transfer harboring, or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of...
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...Somaly Mam’s personal story is one of absolute terror that reveals the evil which exists in our world. From a very early age, Somaly was victimized by just about every root cause of human trafficking that exists. She was abandoned by her biological family before the age six and left to fend for herself in an extremely impoverished village of Cambodia. The lack of family support and parental protection had a significant effect on her development as a young girl. She grew up lonely and without any positive guidance which made her extremely vulnerable to trafficking. In addition to lacking any family support or financial assistance, Somaly suffered the torment of racism throughout her entire childhood and early teens. This had a profound impact on her self-perception and made her feel less human than her peers. These root cause of trafficking certainly played a central role in the abuses that took place in Somaly’s childhood. When she was about nine or ten, it is assumed that the couple who looked after her sold her to a man whom she referred to as grandfather. This was her first of many experiences of being traded as a commodity between men who lacked even a hint of moral fiber. Grandfather treated Somaly as a sex slave who existed solely to pleasure and provide for him. He even went as far as to sell her virginity to a merchant in order to settle his debt. From here, grandfather continued the cycle of abuse by selling Somaly into marriage at the age of 13. While Somaly...
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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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...Human Dignity without a Price Tag Campaign The Need There is no uniform definition of human trafficking and no consent regarding aspects that this problem entails. The United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children defines human trafficking as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of 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 a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. The U.S. Department of State estimates that about 600,000 to 800,000 people, mostly women and children, are trafficked across national borders annually. If trafficking within a country’s borders is included, this figure drastically increases to approximately 2 to 4 million people, according to official U.S. estimates. Furthermore, it is estimated that 17,500 to 20,000 victims are trafficked into the U.S. annually, with Florida receiving a high percentage of those victims. Trafficked victims generally tend to flow from less developed countries to more industrialized nations to neighboring countries with higher standards of living. The impact of modern-day slavery goes beyond the individual victims; it undermines the health, safety and security of all nations it touches. It is currently...
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...Globalization and movement for labor affect the United States all across the board. People find it hard to pull up and move to various locations around the world but for a better life for themselves and the family they often do so . Families do so for better wages to avoid crime, better education and sometimes are forced to. Immigrants take a chance for a better life by facing, crime, kidnapping and murdering order to get to various places in the United States. Texas border brings in more than half of the immigrants who illegally and legally come into the United States. Jon 13 34-35 gives us direction on how to treat others regardless if they are immigrants her illegally or legally . One status does not dictate this. “34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” People find it hard to pull up the roots that they have held tight to and move to a place they have never been. Although this is hard millions of non-American citizens have made the decision to move. The immigration that had the most impact took place around the eighteen hundreds, this was due to the Great Depression through the hard times in the 1930s. During this time over 60 million people immigrated too different parts of the world but more than half of those immigrants came to the United. States. Globalization and movement of labor has a wide...
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...HUMAN TRAFFICKING A SEMINAR PAPER PREPARED BY ELEGBOGUN OSERERE JULIET COURSE TITLE: CLASSICAL THEORIES OF CRIME, DELINQUENCY AND SECURITIES COURSE CODE: 800 IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER IN CRIMINOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS LECTURER : PROFESSOR SOYOMBO OMOLOLU FEBRUARY, 2013. ABSTRACT With the rapidly increasing rate of migration – a by-product of a more globalised world – human traffickers have greater opportunities to exploit those who migrate to other States. First, human trafficking is driven by poverty and international productivity/living quality disparities. Second, the existing humanitarian and/or suppressive approaches cannot solve the problem. Third, the best option for solving the problem is setting up the ‘reciprocal direct investment’ (RDI) scheme between leading and lagged economies. The RDI scheme can facilitate improvements in the quality of public governance in lagged economies and...
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...| Political Science 2I03 – Global Politics Term Paper | Feminist Contributions to International Relations | Written By: Maryam Burney Professor: Dr. Andrew LuiTA: Meagan Kinsella Tutorial Section: T06 | Introduction Feminist research in the past twenty years has been successful enough to make women in international relations more visible. Feminism within IR has now evolved to an extent where disciplinary boundaries are being challenged and new issues and voices are being arisen. Feminists have productively established how the lives of sex workers, domestic servants, home-based workers and those who undergo grueling labour without pay, are also a part of global politics and the international economy (Hutchings et al., 2008, pg. 159). Feminist theory considers the effects of male dominance and how the socially constructed idea of “gender” affects international relations and its related fields. In essence it is not only simply about women, however, it is about the affiliation of masculinity and femininity as socially constructed groups that shape how we acknowledge and experience the political world. The differences that gender makes to global politics are vital to someone looking through a feminist lens. This also requires an individual to question whether or not it is appropriate to assume the characteristics of females (Ticker, 1997, pg. 616). Feminists within are international relations are troubled with a lot of misconceptions that leads to a negative perspective...
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...“I am one or two days away from death; they will shoot me dead, thus if you give birth to a son please name him after me.” ----An Eritrean victim of human trafficking from The Sinai Desert INTRODUCTION This paper examines the issue of human trafficking as it relates to human security in the Horn of Africa. Trafficking takes place by criminal means through the threat or use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of positions of power or abuse of positions of vulnerability. Further, it relates to all stages of the trafficking process: recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of person. An agreed definition of human trafficking exists under Article 3 of the “Palermo Protocol” on trafficking in persons which went into effect on 25 December 2003. This internationally agreed definition focuses on exploitation of human beings – be it for sexual exploitation, other forms of forced labor, slavery, servitude, or for the removal of human organs. Trafficking is not just a transnational crime across international borders; the definition applies to internal domestic trafficking of human beings. In the Horn of Africa (HOA), both cross border and internal trafficking of women and children is prevalent. For example, in Ethiopia, children are being trafficked into armed conflict where it is reported that over 20,000 of them have been victims. Almost all of the countries in the region have been identified as sources, transit points or destination...
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...humanity. What is it? Sex trafficking. 20 million women and children are forced into the global sex trade. Just imagine a life constantly used as an object, constantly abused, without a name but only a number.Calling for help, whilst being kept silent. Why is it still happening? One of the root causes of sex trafficking is poverty corruption, which is reflected in the lack of educational and social work opportunities of men and women. Traffickers generally target women because of their societal isonlation, violence in family, access to education, employment and other resources. And because of the desperate economic situation, heavily influences on the availability and opportunities of employment for women. Thus traffickers prey on the women's vulnerability, luring and manipulating them into false promises, visas and work opportunities into subjugation, without women conscious of the work conditions instead to find themselves forced in the internal ring of prostitution. In some cases, families view their daughters as an economic burden, (hence) selling their daughter to a brothel.( Immediate cash will then be sent to the family )and receiving an immediate payoff (delete this part man) insufficiency of laws to obstruct the efforts in trying to fight sex trafficking Even in developed countries e.g. America traffickers manipulate using finesse pimping adolescent girls showering victims with gifts, love and attention. Victims of sex trafficking face ensnare harrowing...
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...Organized crime acts with clearly defined business criteria, planning their activities in accordance with the economic criteria of supply and demand, looking at the impact of research and action penalizing the state, a situation that allows them to regulate the upward or downward prices. Similarly, they structure their activity with the division of labor and specialization of labor. In Colombia for example it is absolutely clear; is merely observe the management model of organizations dedicated to drug trafficking, organized gangs of kidnappers, groups that launder money, multinational organizations, the trafficking, trade in precursors for the production of coca, posters gasoline, counterfeiters, etc. There is very little agreement about what is organized crime. The various perspectives with which he has been treated show that protein is a highly changeable phenomenon, complex, and therefore difficult to apprehend in theoretical concepts and, even more, in criminal law. Several factors combine to pay in this difficulty. First, it is a relatively new phenomenon, or at least perceived in its social dimension does very little in regard to Europe. Second, it is a more abstract traditional criminal phenomena such as drug trafficking offenses, money laundering, human trafficking, etc.; methods of operation; criminal liability; transnational activities, and their respective political criminals, among others. Third, the work of the various countries is strongly influenced by their own...
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...Perception of Human Trafficking and its Implication for Agricultural Production in Edo State, Nigeria Ofuoku, A. U. and Uzokwe, U. N. (Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Delta State University, Asaba Campus, PMB 95074, Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria) Citation: Ofuoku, A. U. and Uzokwe, U. N. (2012) “Rural Dwellers’ Perception of Human Trafficking and its Implication for Agricultural Production in Edo State, Nigeria”, Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 394-404. Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development, 2(3), pp. 394-404. Rural Dwellers’ Perception of Human Trafficking and its Implication for Agricultural Production in Edo State, Nigeria Abstract This study was carried out to ascertain the perception of rural dwellers on human trafficking in relation to its effect on agricultural production in the three Senatorial Districts of Edo State, Nigeria. A sample size of 120 household heads was used for the study. Structured questionnaire and interview schedule were used to collect data for the study. The data were analyzed using frequency counts, means and percentage while ChiSquare statistical model and Tobit regression analytical model were used to test the hypotheses. It was discovered that the household members were trafficked as a result of push and pull factors. The trafficked members of household were actively involved in farming practices before being trafficked. There is significant relationship between human trafficking...
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...Decriminalization and Legalization of Drugs in Canada The Decriminalization and/ or legalization of drugs is a highly contentious issue regarding political, legal, economic, and social implications. It is also a highly contagious issue that the media cannot seem to cure its self of. Then again the public definitely cares about this issue intensely and so do many politicians whether they are users themselves or just simple supporters (of the tax revenues that legalizing certain narcotics will bring in to the country), especially in the United States and Canada where people are being thrown in jail for years only because of small possession charges (more so in the USA). Prisons in The United States are overcrowded with people who shouldn’t be...
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...prostitution. Gunilla Ekberg, co-executive director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women states that “in order to successfully find solutions to the problem of prostitution, it is necessary to think about and discuss among ourselves what kind of society we wish to live in.” Before this discussion, however, we need to take a step back. The first question that needs to be addressed is whether we as a society see prostitution as a problem. Do we see prostitution as an inevitable, inescapable and necessary profession - a profession that has always existed as the ‘oldest profession in the world’? Or do we acknowledge that prostitution is a violation of internationally recognised human rights: equality, dignity and integrity? Is prostitution a problem? A problem for equality It is widely recognised that violence against women is antithetical to the establishment of gender equality, and that one of the most severe and devastating practices of gender-based violence is the commercial exploitation of women and girls, which includes prostitution. The United States Department of State determines that few activities are as brutal and damaging to people as prostitution. Field research in nine countries concluded that 60-75% of women in prostitution were raped, 70-95% were physically assaulted, and 68% met the criteria for post traumatic stress disorder, in the same range as treatment-seeking combat veterans and victims of state-organised torture.[i] A problem for dignity The legitimisation and...
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...Women and Children trafficking in Bangladesh: A Legal Study Md. Saddam Hossen[1] ABSTRACT Sexual abuse, exploitation, trafficking are nightmares for femininity especially for disadvantage groups and trafficking is the most heinous of all. Government as well as Non- Government Organizations is working for Prevention, Protection, Rehabilitation and Reintegration of trafficked victims and population at risk. Though among these, Prevention is the most effective to reduce or eliminate human trafficking it is least utilized. Perhaps lack of mechanisms by which to measure success or outcome of prevention activities is the cause of this. Still some NGOs are working on it. In fact NGOs have been the pioneers in bringing this invisible crime into the public domain by their continuous efforts. Government is now also concerned of it because of international pressure and concern. Government initiatives give emphasis on prosecution but it is a globally chained crime where prosecute real offender is tough. Rather prevention is the possible measure to stop trafficking. It is the only pre-trafficking measure which may help a young girl or child not to be victim of trafficking. NGOs are the only actor at grass root level working for prevention so it is necessary to see- actually what they are doing and has any change took place. . The study explains the definition of trafficking, causes and consequences of trafficking. It also suggest some recommendations for the preventio9n of this problem. ...
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