...through China in a van covered with photos of victims of child trafficking, searching for their children. The search has cost them a large sum of money, their careers, and their marriages (Calum). Many people in China have been affected by child trafficking. China has a population of over one billion people which is still expanding. This massive population makes it difficult for the government to control everything that goes on. The Chinese communist government has a collection of shortcomings. It is weak in some areas and authorities have trouble monitoring everyone and everything that goes on. Therefore, the police...
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...Child trafficking and the sexual exploitation of children are issues that, despite affecting a large portion of the world’s population – prompting protocols and reports being made by the United Nations – is widely misunderstood. This common misunderstanding leads to victims having prolonged and more detrimental mental and social recovery periods once reintegrated into community life. This essay argues that wider public education about the child sex trade and community involvement in trafficking prevention programs are necessary for the mental and social wellbeing of trafficking victims, and for the prevention of future trafficking crimes. Public participation in prevention initiatives provides a safety net and strong community for victims being...
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...Child sex trafficking is a huge trade in the world, and it is not an exception in United States of America. Survivors of child sex trafficking are few; however, they need treatment that help to get out of this new form of slavery. This review touches problems of survivors and treatment that they need. The method of searching was EBSCO host and selected 11 articles. There, it was found the interdisciplinary treatment for survivors of child sex trafficking. Also, social workers are important agents to help survivors to connect with all services disposables. Human trafficking is considerate as “a basic violation of freedom of person and dignity.” (Bennet-Murphy, 2012, p. 133). For many people, human trafficking is well known as a modern form...
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...Cathy Keith Child Trafficking: Innocent Children Force into Prostitution Prof: Leon Geter 04/26/2012 Abstract This research paper surveys the contextual factors surrounding child trafficking for the purposes of prostitution and also examines potential ethical issues arising from research to safeguard the psychological and physical well-being of these children. This paper is not intended to provide an ethical best-practice checklist rather its aim is to encourage the exploration of important ethical issues and further questions to be addressed by researchers in this area. In so doing, I hope to encourage the development of a fully informed decision-making approach to anti-trafficking policy and practice, and the improved provision of appropriate services for children being trafficked for prostitution. Hence the necessity, as I see it, for a reconsideration of victim-status and its constituents. The qualitative research methodology used in this research involved semi-structured interviews conducted throughout the United States and an extensive review of current literature. The sample population included individuals from a wide spectrum of expertise including United States governmental agencies and local non-governmental organizations with experience and knowledge of child trafficking and prostitution. Introduction Human trafficking is the slavery of our time. Exactly 200 years ago, Britain and the United Stated formally outlawed the transatlantic slave trade...
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...For this peer review was used EBSCOhost database. Search was made in September and October, 2015. The initial attempt used those key words: child sex trafficking, and social work, and United State of America, treatment, resources, survivor or victims of child sex trafficking. It was difficult to find treatment as a main topic of those articles. This topic is not new, but it is not main topic in the articles. The treatment for survivors of child sex trafficking. Also, it was decided that treatment perhaps was used in other countries where they have similar problems as in the United States of America. In these countries, therapists, doctors, and professional have developed some multidisciplinary treatment that may understand how important the...
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...Ethics on Child Labor Trafficking Child labor is a very controversial topic around the world especially when BBC World News created a documentary about the children of the Ivory Coast harvesting cocoa for large chocolate companies. Most children involved in child labor trafficking are pulled from their homes at an early age and are forced to work long days in high cocoa trees. If the children get paid at all, they don’t receive the money directly; the wage is given to a relative. The children don’t have a “normal” childhood like that of American children who play with toys and have fun with friends. An absolute ethical view among 1st world countries is that child labor trafficking is completely wrong. However, the people of the Ivory Coast think that child labor trafficking is acceptable because it is all they have ever known; it is their way of life. Consequently, I feel that child labor trafficking is not absolutely wrong, but it is unethical in some aspects. I believe that if the children are going to work, they should also receive basic human rights like the right to an education. Education is such an important tool of progress, which is all the Ivory Coast needs. With education they would be able to grow as a country and increase their standard of living. Without education, child labor trafficking becomes a vicious cycle: children are trafficked, and they grow to be traffickers themselves. I also think that it is unethical how the children are treated. They...
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...Human Trafficking/Child Soldiers Edwina Hay Dr. Rufus E. Robinson Contemporary International Problems-POL 300002043 March 18, 2011 Human Trafficking/Child Soldiers Human trafficking has attracted the attention of the international community and individual states on more than one occasion. Trafficking consists of the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, 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. 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 or organs (Human Trafficking, 2006). Many types of human trafficking and forms of exploitation exist and are constantly changing. The key types of human trafficking and forms of exploitation include sexual exploitation, labor exploitation of children, and exploitation for the purpose of begging. Sexual exploitation is generally considered to be the primary form of human trafficking offenses. Russia’s sex trade has spread; the sex trade industry currently employs 150,000 women (Human Trafficking, 2006). Sexual exploitation particularly affects women and children. They...
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...Child Sex Trafficking. I. Introduction It would be ideal to imagine a world where children stay within the boundaries of innocence. However, numerous countries around the world make that dream impossible as child sex trafficking grows in abundance as the most common form of modern day slavery. On a daily basis, children are acquired by means of force, threat, and fraud in order to be exploited in forms of sexuality, slavery, and forced labor (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime). Up to 50% of individuals who are forced into sex trafficking are minors, which a large portion consisting of women and girls. Despite an infeasibility of estimating a number of victims, the United Nations approximates about 2.5 million children from 127 different countries are subjected to this type of modern day slavery, while other sources claim as many as 27 million victims.1 Some governments overlook the existence of the crime statistically because of illegality, so an accurate number cannot be calculated and varies from region to region (U.S. Department of State, 2004, Trafficking in Persons Report, Washington, D.C.) II. Background The federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act defines the crime of sex trafficking as “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act where such an act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced has not attained 18 years of age.” 2 Sexual trafficking has been...
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...The Affect of Human Trafficking on the Global Community Emma-introduce the issue of human trafficking as a vulnerable population that affects the global community. Paper will cover population description, social issues, and macro (world-wide) interventions. Population Description Human Trafficking is harboring people without their consent to say so. These people are threaten and taking against their will. Abduction is the main form of human trafficking because they seek out person who are vulnerable to society and does not have enough funds to make ends meet so they are taking advantage of by allowing those to abuse them by receiving payment for their freedom. Women are more vulnerable to trafficking because of the impoverished, uneducated ethnic minority, rural or refugee groups. Most women lack employment because of lack of education. Children are to most vulnerable to trafficking because of the physical, mentally and emotionally they has become by the country. Mothers sit at home wondering if they going to ever see their child again. Because society has made for them to allow their child ages 10-21 to traffic for means of food. “The U.S government estimates that there are approximately 800,000 individuals who are victims of human trafficking worldwide, the majority of whom are females under the age of 18”.(Martin, 2011). These female can be used for many thing, however the targets of large organizations that has business for human trafficking find that women can be sold...
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...continues to be widely prominent and relevant across the globe today. Annually, hundreds of thousands of America’s children and youth are being sexually exploited. This trafficking industry dates back to the late 1800s when children were first prostituted in the United States. Since then, the problem has been exacerbated by globalization and the emergence of the internet as a major source of communication. The increasing prominence of the media and internet allows for news to be easily shared. But because sex trafficking is a continuous issue, people have become desensitized to the harsh reality of the sex industry. Also, false news stories decrease...
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... | | |Education seems to be what helps in the intervention of child labor. A lot of countries do not have |Child labor creates mental health issues for | |Child labor |educational programs for children, with educational programs there are also clinics that provide health |children. Children that are involved in child labor | | |care. |fail to complete 4 years of education. Poverty is a | | | |factor when child labor considered. | | |Internationally groups work together to bring awareness to areas about slavery and human rights as a |People around the world are forced into slavery. | |Slavery |person. How to break free from being a slave. Helping to enable people to leave slavery through projects|Sometimes a parent cannot work or another parent can | | |and other helping agencies. Supporting those that do leave slavery with psychological and legal help. |only work a little while. The child is then forced to| | |Empowering people and supporting their empowerment...
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...What is human trafficking? It is to illegally transport people from one place to another, typically to force them to do labor or exploit them sexually. It is today’s form of modern slavery, a multibillion dollar criminal industry. 139 goods made from 75 countries have been identified as made by forced child labor by the U.S. Department of Labor. It’s a problem that is hard to see, because things like technology easily hide it. Human trafficking affects over 20.9 million people globally. There 313,000 victims a year in Texas alone. From the teenage girl living in the neighborhood being sold to men by her family, or to the workers at local restaurant not having an identification or seem to know where they are, human trafficking is everywhere. Human trafficking, sex and labor, is today's form of slavery, and it affects thousands of people in Texas. Sex trafficking is one form...
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...Human Trafficking Modern-day Slavery When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity”. - Luke 13:12 There are more slaves in the world today than at any time in history. Human trafficking has quickly become a problem the entire world is faced with and there are no countries that are immune to this rapidly growing crisis. Human trafficking is the second largest illegal industry globally, behind the drug trade. The main contributors for human trafficking are governmental corruption, economic, and social crisis within each nation’s borders. In this report, I will cover the definition of human trafficking, some statistics gathered over the years, and what is being done to prevent human trafficking. Human trafficking is defined as the illegal trade in human beings for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation or force labor and is considered as the modern day form of slavery. Human trafficking is an umbrella term used to describe all forms of modern-day slavery. These forms include, but not limited to forced labor, bonded labor, sex trafficking, child labor, and child soldiers. Forced labor makes up the majority of human trafficking in the world. The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that for every trafficking victim subjected to forced prostitution, nine people are forced to work. Forced labor is also known as involuntary servitude. Immigrants are particularly vulnerable...
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...Human Trafficking: A Hidden Disease. Human trafficking has never been widely acknowledged in the United States, as many view the issue as an international problem. Human trafficking comes in two ways, international and domestic. International trafficking can be forced child labor or prostitution, whereas domestic is, for the most part, child prostitution (Levy). Close to twenty-seven million people are trafficked in the world, around 14,500 are brought to the United States from other countries (Buffett 116). Meanwhile, many children living in America are taken off the street and forced to become something most people could hardly comprehend. This issue is coming from all sides in America,...
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...domestic minor sex-trafficking. The purpose of this research study is to explore the ideology of different research studies that explain and identify effective strategies to prevent domestic minor-sex trafficking in neighborhoods and communities. Sex-trafficking is a social problem because, “the crime of people trafficking is an assault on human rights” (Heredia, 2008, p. 399). The issue of Fighting against sex-trafficking was addressed at the UN convention when a protocol was set to tackle the problems of sex-trafficking. There are strategies and interventions used by international and national human service agencies to assist the sex-trafficking victims. Shared Hope International and partner non-profit organizations stated the importance of protecting the victims, preventing the crime and prosecuting the perpetrators, and also have decided to act upon the problem (Shared Hope International, 2009). Further in the study, the researcher will provide detailed analysis of the strategies used by the human service agencies to aid the victims of trafficking. These strategies will include training law enforcement to investigate human trafficking cases, improving communication between the human service agencies and law enforcement, and enhancing the scope of research. Strategies and Implementation Identifying victims of trafficking Relevant studies have been found to identify both the present and historical problems that surround domestic minor sex-trafficking. The researcher used...
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