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Friday, March 29, 2019
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Question 1. What is Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is such a broad topic with many different definitions and opinions but here’s what I think best describes human trafficking.
The UN convention against transnational organized crime (otherwise know as the Palermo protocol) defines “trafficking in persons” as the; “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 or power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or received my of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.” While the protocol defines trafficking as, “the exploitation of the prostitution, forced labour or services, slavery, or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.” Some people consider sex work, such as prostitution as human trafficking. For example, activist, author and expert on human trafficking and modern day slavery, Siddharth Kara equates prostitution with sex trafficking. While, author and co-author of the Global Slavery Index, professor of Contemporary Slavery at the University of Nottingham, and co-founder and recently president of Free the Slaves. Kevin Bales considers human trafficking as modern day slavery. To conclude, and give a simpler definition, human trafficking is the illegal, recruiting, harboring(transporting), of a person for the typically for the purpose of forced labour and or sexual exploitation. However, there's many other things people get trafficked for. Human trafficking is the worlds second largest criminal enterprise in the world and the fastest growing buissness of organized crime.
Now that we know what human trafficking is we can start to form our own opinion on it and realize the importance of it. Which well then help us to answer the main question of, why is human trafficking such an important issue in our current world today?
The UN convention against transnational organized crime (otherwise know as the Palermo protocol) defines “trafficking in persons” as the; “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 or power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or received my of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.” While the protocol defines trafficking as, “the exploitation of the prostitution, forced labour or services, slavery, or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.” Some people consider sex work, such as prostitution as human trafficking. For example, activist, author and expert on human trafficking and modern day slavery, Siddharth Kara equates prostitution with sex trafficking. While, author and co-author of the Global Slavery Index, professor of Contemporary Slavery at the University of Nottingham, and co-founder and recently president of Free the Slaves. Kevin Bales considers human trafficking as modern day slavery. To conclude, and give a simpler definition, human trafficking is the illegal, recruiting, harboring(transporting), of a person for the typically for the purpose of forced labour and or sexual exploitation. However, there's many other things people get trafficked for. Human trafficking is the worlds second largest criminal enterprise in the world and the fastest growing buissness of organized crime.
Now that we know what human trafficking is we can start to form our own opinion on it and realize the importance of it. Which well then help us to answer the main question of, why is human trafficking such an important issue in our current world today?
Question 2. How Does Human Trafficking Work?
How does this so called “business” actually work/operate?
Firstly, the Traffickers persuade( deceive) their victims with promise of work and or a better life. The victims then pay their “employers” a form of debt in order to pay transportation and and living arrangements. Then when the victims arrive they find that everything is not what it seems. The job they were promised doesn’t exist and the living conditions are horrible. However, sense they already payed these traffickers the traffickers hold that against them and force them pay of their debt or longer. However, the traffickers either pay their "employees" very little or nothing at all, making it impossible to pay of their debt. Also, their documents are often taken away so they don't have a way to go back home or proof of identity. Plus, the traffickers threaten coerce their victims so they won’t/ can’t leave. Such as, threatening the lives of their loved ones. The traffickers often keep their victims under lock and key with seemed guard supervision, the guards can become very violent if anyone tries to escape. Along with these methods of trafficking, some traffickers also kidnap their victims. After the traffickers have their worker they then use tactics like abuse, rape, drug administration, and or food and sleep deprivation to condition and control their victims.
Understanding how human trafficking works can help us gain a better understanding of the topic and the wrongfulness of this illegal business. Knowing this will later us help us to answer the main question of, why is human trafficking such an important issue in our current world today?
Firstly, the Traffickers persuade( deceive) their victims with promise of work and or a better life. The victims then pay their “employers” a form of debt in order to pay transportation and and living arrangements. Then when the victims arrive they find that everything is not what it seems. The job they were promised doesn’t exist and the living conditions are horrible. However, sense they already payed these traffickers the traffickers hold that against them and force them pay of their debt or longer. However, the traffickers either pay their "employees" very little or nothing at all, making it impossible to pay of their debt. Also, their documents are often taken away so they don't have a way to go back home or proof of identity. Plus, the traffickers threaten coerce their victims so they won’t/ can’t leave. Such as, threatening the lives of their loved ones. The traffickers often keep their victims under lock and key with seemed guard supervision, the guards can become very violent if anyone tries to escape. Along with these methods of trafficking, some traffickers also kidnap their victims. After the traffickers have their worker they then use tactics like abuse, rape, drug administration, and or food and sleep deprivation to condition and control their victims.
Understanding how human trafficking works can help us gain a better understanding of the topic and the wrongfulness of this illegal business. Knowing this will later us help us to answer the main question of, why is human trafficking such an important issue in our current world today?
Question 3. Who does Human Trafficking Affect, How Many, and Why these People?
There's approximately over 20 million people trafficked in the world today. According to the U.S State Department, 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders every year. 80% of which being female and half of that being children. While world wide statistics say, 51% of identified victims are women, 28% are children, and 21% men. Also that 72% of people exploited in the sex industry are women. Traffickers pay no attention to age, race, or gender when buying and selling their victims. However human trafficking targets poorer people more often then say the average Canadian. This is because they are an "easier" target because they are always looking for work and will take any job offered to them. Even still the average Canadian can get trafficked. Canadian human trafficking says 93% of trafficking victims in Canada are female. While 83% of police reported perpetrators are male. In other places like the US, Florida is the third leading state in the nation, with a 550 reported cases on human trafficking. So there you have it, trafficking isn't just a foreign issue it happens in all across North America too. This is because traffickers go for any vulnerable people, so people without work, in poverty, homeless, and in desperate need and that can be anybody.
This is important to know for the bigger question because it gives actually answers and specific statistics on how many people are truly being affected by this issue. This helps to see the broader spectrum of human trafficking and the scary truth that nobody is safe. Human trafficking affects all us and anybody can get trafficked.
This is important to know for the bigger question because it gives actually answers and specific statistics on how many people are truly being affected by this issue. This helps to see the broader spectrum of human trafficking and the scary truth that nobody is safe. Human trafficking affects all us and anybody can get trafficked.
Question 4. What do People get Trafficked For?
Discussions about trafficking usually get divided into two components, sex trafficking and labour trafficking. Sex trafficking is the more "popular" (well known) topic in the media but its statistically proven that people get trafficked for labour trafficking more often. Victims of labour trafficking may work: in mines, sweatshops, construction, agriculture, restaurants, as servants(maid), and in service industries. While sex trafficking victims may be forced into commercial sex acts, prostitution, performing sex shows, pornography, becoming sex slaves, etc. While the small amount of men who are forced into sex trafficking may be forced into homosexuality. These women and girls in sex trafficking bring in tens of thousands of dollars for their traffickers each year. To put into perspective, the average annual salary in Bulgaria is $2,600, but a prostitute in that area can earn $23,000 for her trafficker. Even though labour trafficking and sex trafficking seem enough there's still a long list of others things people get trafficked for. Children for instance, might be forced to beg on the streets all day and all of their earnings then going to their traffickers. They might also become child soldiers, be forced into child mirage, along with being in labour and sex trafficking. Some people are even trafficked for disturbing things like organ removal.
Now that we know the disturbing and in humane things these people are being trafficked for it helps to show how truly dangerous this is "business" is. Hopefully, this will put in perspective the seriousness need when discussion human trafficking and the urgency we have to put in to help end it. By knowing this information it will help us understand and answer our main question of, why is human trafficking such an important issue in our current world today?
Now that we know the disturbing and in humane things these people are being trafficked for it helps to show how truly dangerous this is "business" is. Hopefully, this will put in perspective the seriousness need when discussion human trafficking and the urgency we have to put in to help end it. By knowing this information it will help us understand and answer our main question of, why is human trafficking such an important issue in our current world today?
Question 5. Is Human Trafficking Modern Day Slavery?
Modern day slavery is also something in our current world today that kinda goes hand in hand with human trafficking. Most people actually categorize human trafficking as a type of modern day slavery and even refer to trafficking victims as modern day slaves. While some count it as its own form of slavery and disclosed it completely from the slave trade. However, both human trafficking and slavery are devastating crimes that relate to each other in many ways. To start off, both slavery and human trafficking involve the buying and selling of a person. In both situations that person can be of any race, age, and gender. The biggest difference being that trafficking involves a broader form of buyers and sellers, that meaning the whole transportation aspect of trafficking. Furthermore, in both situations the slave and trafficking victim earn little to nothing, or nothing at all as their wage. Along with their work being hard, shameful, and in humane. Plus in both in situations the victims living quarters are usually very small, broken down, and animal like. So is human trafficking modern day slavery? This is a question that doesn't really have a right or wrong answer. In my opinion I will say, yes! human trafficking is a type of modern day slavery. I say this because they are so extremely similar in so many ways that its almost important to call human trafficking modern day slavery just to show how dangerous it really is.
Like I stated before, I think human trafficking is a form of modern day slavery and we should compere it to that. Slavery is such an important part in our history that people promised would never happen again but here we are in 2019 and slavery is still a going on! When will it end? Its important to ask this question because it gives us something to compare this issue to. Which helps us understand just how serious and dangerous this is. Hopefully knowing this will help us answer the main question of, why is human trafficking such an important issue in our current world today.
Like I stated before, I think human trafficking is a form of modern day slavery and we should compere it to that. Slavery is such an important part in our history that people promised would never happen again but here we are in 2019 and slavery is still a going on! When will it end? Its important to ask this question because it gives us something to compare this issue to. Which helps us understand just how serious and dangerous this is. Hopefully knowing this will help us answer the main question of, why is human trafficking such an important issue in our current world today.
Question 6. How Can We End Human Trafficking?
Human trafficking is a dangerous crime that needs to be stopped, so what is our governments doing to stop this and how can we help? Different countries are doing different things to help win the fight against human trafficking. In 2000 the U.S passed the trafficking victims protection act and the UN passed the Palermo Protocols, which is called on member countries to help fight this crime. However, with all these protocols and laws it's still not getting any better. One of the reasons being because human trafficking victims are so hard to find, making it hard to help someone who you don't know needs help. Law enforcement cant identify and don't recognize human trafficking victims. For instance, if the police raid a brothel, the "prostitutes"(trafficking victims) will be the ones charged while the "customer"(trafficker) is allowed to go free. That alone is so messed up, here we are punishing and shaming these innocent victims, maybe this is also why its so hard for them to come clean because it seems like nobody actually wants to help. Even still this isn't stopping people from wanting t help. The 3 p's approach has become an important one in helping to end human trafficking. Strangely many different organizations follow a different order for their 3 p's. The United Nations Office on Drugs (UNODC) goes, prevention, protection, prosecution. While the state U.S Department of State goes, punishment, protection, prevention. It's interesting to know the different steps governments and world organizations are doing to help end human trafficking, but what can I do? What can we average, everyday citizens do to help end human trafficking? Well there's many things actually but the simplest yet probably most important, being part of the movement. Joining movements and helping getting the word out there and building awareness is the simplest greatest things we can do. For example, taking apart in the end it movement. All you have to for this one is draw a red x on your hand, take a selfie and share it on the internet. It's that easy to help make a difference.
Finally we see some positive news! However no none important issue has ever had movements, government and world organizations coming together to help end the issue. Therefore, adding on to the importunes of the topic of human trafficking and helping us realize just how serious this problem really is. Which again will help us answer our main question of, why is human trafficking such an important issue in our world today?
Some links on what you can do to help end human trafficking and causes very similar.
Finally we see some positive news! However no none important issue has ever had movements, government and world organizations coming together to help end the issue. Therefore, adding on to the importunes of the topic of human trafficking and helping us realize just how serious this problem really is. Which again will help us answer our main question of, why is human trafficking such an important issue in our world today?
Some links on what you can do to help end human trafficking and causes very similar.
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