...Kachin State, Human Rights Watch said. Some 75,000 ethnic Kachin displaced persons and refugees are in desperate need of food, medicine, and shelter, Human Rights Watch said. In Burma, the Burmese army have been attacking villages, razed homes, pillaged properties, and forcing the displacement of tens of thousands of people. The soldiers have threatened and also tortured civilians during interrogations and raped women. They also are forcing people even children as young as 14 years old to work in the mines. The Kachin civilians say that they are also forcing them to work on the front lines for the Burmese army, enduring torture, and being fired upon by the soldier. Human Rights Watch traces the women and girls' cross-border transport and their confinement in illegal brothels throughout Thailand where they are forced to work off their debt, often with 100 percent interest, through what amounts to sexual servitude. In addition to debt bondage, the women and girls face a wide range of abuses, including illegal confinement; forced labor; rape; physical abuse; exposure to HIV/AIDS; and, in some cases, murder. The Burmese women and girls work ten to eighteen hours a day, twenty-five days a month with anywhere from 5-15 clients a day. Health care and birth control information are minimal. Most of the women and girls are interviewed were virgins when they entered Thailand; fifty to seventy percent of them were HIV positive when they left. Escape for the Burmese women and girls is virtually...
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...Sex Trafficking and Slavery in the United States "She tied up my hands first, and then she put the tape over my mouth. And she put tape over my eyes," Debbie said. "While she was putting tape on me, Matthew told me if I screamed or acted stupid, he'd shoot me. So I just stayed quiet”...” Debbie said her captors drove her around the streets of Phoenix for hours. Exhausted and confused, she was finally taken to an apartment 25 miles from her home. She said one of her captors put a gun to her head”…” Debbie said she was then drugged by her captors and other men were brought into the room, where she was gang raped.” (Teen Girls’ Stories of Sex Trafficking in U.S.). Many Americans hear stories all the time of abduction and sexual slavery all around the world. They feel like something should be done about this injustice but since the acts are happening outside the country they feel disconnected. Unfortunately, most Americans are not as far from this problem as they would like to believe. Sex trafficking happens at an alarming rate in America. Between the years 1996-2000, America had the highest number of victims trafficked illegally into the country (Cullen-Dupont 44). With this high level of trafficking going on, why are many Americans unaware of this issue? They most likely believe that only foreign victims are trafficked into slavery, but the Texas Attorney General states that an epidemic exists of domestic women being forced into sexual slavery as well (Bellows 489). Debbie...
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...Sex trafficking as defined by the United States government is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purposes of a commercial sex act. A cameral sexual act is any act in which anything of value is given or received by any person. Sex trafficking is an issue that is mostly kept in the dark. It falls under the umbrella of human trafficking, which is the trade of humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor, or the extraction of organs and tissues, including surrogacy and ovary removal. Sex trafficking is an underground business where children and women are the products being sold. Numerous documentaries show that sex trafficking is a growing exploitative business. Day after...
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...turns into human trafficking, where they mistreat you, abuse you, hit you. Now that’s happening because they tricked you, and told you all these lies that weren't true. Laura Abasi became one of the girls of human trafficking when she was just 18 years old. She says, “If they told you she was going to kill you, and she actually started fighting. They had to almost kill you, to beg them not to kill you,” (Fisher, 2014). Some don’t even want to do this but they...
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...I believe that the driving force of human trafficking here in the USA is the fact that the problem is ignore in this country. I didn't even know the problem excited in this country until I took this class. I thought we were only going to talk about human trafficking in foreign countries only. The USA always points out other countries for doing things like this but they never truly focus on what's happening in their own country regarding this situation. According Polaris, there is a report of 1,611 sex trafficking situations US citizens. That is, in my opinion a big number and the the fact that it is barely mention in the news or in advertisements surprise me a lot. Another driving force of this problem is culture. Woman are very sexualized...
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...Until recently, in the US, the thought of Human Sex Trafficking never occurred to Americans. Human sex trafficking is an illegal activity. This involves selling, buying and trading of people. They are transported away from their families and communities and are forced to work against their own will. People are trafficked both between countries and within the borders of a state. It is also known as modern slavery and a form of sexual exploitation; where women’s, girls and children’s are forced to enter in the world of prostitution. People do this to make money, for some people it’s a business a way to make profit. 27 million people all over the world are currently being forced into human sex trafficking, 1 million children will be exploited by the commercial sex trade each year (Buzzle). The purpose of this paper is to inform the audience about the crime of human sex trafficking. What is the background on human sex trafficking? What is the current situation in India with human sex trafficking? What will happen in the future with the issues of human sex trafficking? Human Trafficking is defined in the Trafficking Protocol as "the recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring or receipt of a person by such means as threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud or deception for the purpose of exploitation." Human sex trafficking is the modern equivalent of slavery. It’s an incredibly profitably crime, bringing quick, high profits...
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...Abstract Human trafficking is a modern-day slavery that many people know little about. It is taking place in every country, including the United States. Although it is not a well-known issue, the sex industry has recently caught the attention of the world and the White House. An estimated one million children enter the sex trade each year. Many are forced to have unwanted sex at the benefit of their owners. Others are used as maids or in other forms of extreme labor. Even worse, are the countries that allow prostitution and trafficking. In Japan prostitution is not legal but highly tolerated. Unlike Japan, some countries, such as the Netherlands, have legalized prostitution. However, their government says it is making efforts to regulate it. The girls undergo regular health exams and pay taxes. They are taken to fenced-in parking lots where they are put on display for men to pick one of their likings. All of it is courtesy of the government. While many national and international organizations are making efforts to fight human trafficking, it is still booming in much of Europe. The U.S. has also taken a stand against it by encouraging other countries to take steps towards improvement. However, the fight can not be won easily. Discussion In our “fairytale” lives we rarely take the time to acknowledge the injustices taking place in our world today. Human trafficking is just one of many. We cannot begin to comprehend its impact on the lives of those involved....
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...Stacey Pena April 4, 2012 Deborah AP Humanities Silenced Human Trafficking What is Human Trafficking? Many people are familiar with human trafficking, but do not hear about it as much as murders or robberies on the news. It is like it never happens. I always question myself about what can be done to put a stop to this and make people aware of this crisis. People are being taken and others do not even know what is going on around them. Nicholas Kristof is one of the individuals that is working towards making a change and helping other girls become free from this terrible experience. They create helpful organizations that put up a fight. Organizations are creating awareness towards the public about human trafficking. They are working on cases that involve the victims and have created groups to help overcome this life changing experience. Trafficking is a profitable industry. It has been identified as the fastest growing criminal industry in the world. It is second only to drug trafficking as the most profitable illegal industry in the world. In 2004, the total annual revenue for human trafficking was estimated to be between $5 billion and $9 billion (Cornell University). Even so, there are a lot of organizations out there helping. Many people are not aware about the human trafficking that is going on in the world and the things people go through while being trafficked. There are a lot of organizations out there helping, but are not creating awareness. There...
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...Human Trafficking Article 3, paragraph (a) of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons defines Trafficking in Persons 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. 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 ( www.unodc.org). Human trafficking has become a major problem worldwide which affects many people it is also a serious crime and a violation in human rights. An estimated 600-800 thousand people are moved unwillingly between international borders each year). There is an even larger number of 12.3 million people who are estimated to be forced to work in agriculture, manufacturing, and the sex trade. A majority of the people forced into labor, especially into the sex trade, are children, most of which are women, at an estimated 1 million children per year. There is a large amount of violence and abuse involved in sex slavery, many times leading to death. Globalization seems to have played a major role in the rise of sex...
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...Human Trafficking In the United States and around the world there is a growing problem that people do not know about, but that is a growing concern it is Human Trafficking. In the last few years more is becoming known about the seriousness of the problem in society with human trafficking. It is a growing problem because children, young women, and men are taken every day, and they are physically, emotionally, and sexually abused, sold for sex, and then used for profit. Society believes human trafficking only exists in foreign countries, but that is not true, it is happening in United State Cities every day. Human trafficking defined as transporting a person with the use of force or threat. Human trafficking entails recruiting, abduction and deception by a person for purchase. The purpose of human trafficking is subjecting a person to involuntary slave-like practices, or forced labor. Power and abuse is the primary foundation with this issue. The victim is brainwashed by the perpetrator in believing they will be killed, or their with the direction of the capturer. Eventually the victims begin to do what they are taught to do, and never want to return home. The victims will become accustom to the lifestyle, and believe that that is all will ever become of them. People hear stories about human trafficking in faraway places out of the United States. Human trafficking is happening in our neighborhoods. Even our farm workers who are picking strawberries here in California are the...
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...Human Trafficking Humans are created to be free in this world. They are not goods or properties to be sold or traded. Thus human trafficking is an illegal practice. It uses humans for inhuman activities like prostitution and forced labor. Men, women, and children all over the world are facing human trafficking every day. According to UNODC, human trafficking is the transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by using force, or other forms of abduction, or fraud, or of giving and receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. This kind of exploitation includes the sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, and slavery or practices similar to slavery (2013). Countries all over the world are affected by human trafficking (UN). Trafficking often occurs from less developed countries to more developed countries (UN). According to the Association of Flight Attendants, 12.3 million adults and children are exploited around the world, 56% are women and girls (2013). The International Labor Organization estimated that in 2005, 980,000 to 1,225 million boys and girls were forced into labor situation. As mentioned in Baumgardner work, human trafficking is expected to be the number one crime in America in 2012. Human trafficking is a 40 billion dollars a year industry. More than 100,000 children in the United States are forced to engage in prostitution each year. The United States...
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...Human trafficking is a cruel,bitter truth that helpless girls all over the world are victims of today.Their purpose is to sell these girls as young as 15-16 for sexual slavery and sexual exploitation to men all over the world. Currently the main reason for human trafficking is poverty, families are at a state where they are in dire need for money,which forces them to accept any offer that they get without knowing the circumstances. The reason why human trafficking is such massive money making business and occurs so often in almost every country is because it is the quickest way of making a high rate of money and it isn't as risky as selling drugs or other illegal things.Sex trafficking has currently increased in the world today due to an increase...
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...The Human Toy In our world today, we see and hear about an abundance of crime and human dysfunction. We see cases of illegal trade of weapons and drugs. Yes, this causes distress throughout the county and our world, but these are just “things.” Beyond the drugs and weapons, there is an even worse kind of illegal trade. Humans. Besides the illegal trade of weapons and drugs, human trafficking is the third largest illegal money-maker (Farr 2). Human trafficking is the purchase, sale, recruitment, harboring, transportation, transfer, or receipt of a person for the purpose of commercial sex (Gerdes 19). This being the world’s third largest illegal industry, it is rarely heard of and expressed. Human Trafficking is an enormous global problem. Of the estimated four million people who are trafficked around the world each year, over one million are trafficked into the sex industry. The volume keeps increasing. Researchers believe that the “actual” numbers are much higher than these estimates because many instances of trafficking go undetected (Farr 3). Researchers have concluded that sex trafficking is one of the most, if not the most, rapidly growing form of human trafficking (Farr 5). This industry is expanding at an ever accelerating rate, operating in marketplaces where supply and demand are high and risks to the traffickers are low, making it a highly profitable and enduring business (Farr 3). , The fastest-growing source region is the former Soviet...
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...Human trafficking Human relationship is the joy of life. it is the scent in our life. The world seems to be a place for true pleasure and happiness till the moment we live it truthfully and cordially. but the world is no simple place to live in . It has been always complicated and filled with worries. the beauty of the world is destroyed by the misdeeds of human - something what we call crime. The string of human relation which is smooth as well as delicate is broken by criminal activities. And one of the most threatning crime is human trafficking- the fastest growing criminal activity in the world. Human trfficking is the third largest organised crime after drugs and arms trade across the globe. According to the defination of the united nation...
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...Magdalena Kucab Mrs. Robbin English Composition 101 9 December 2014 On the Rise Human trafficking is more profitable than other organized crimes, therefore it is on its way to becoming one of the worst crimes worldwide. According to Collins, human trafficking is the inhumane, commercial sexual exploitation of children and women through the internet, strip clubs, escort services, and street prostitution. Organized crime has been on the rise in the last decade. “Many criminals have switched to this area of transitional crime because of the high profits and low risk.” (Shelley 116). “Transitional organized crime has been escalating in recent decades as globalization impacts more regions resulting in a decline of nation states and border controls”...
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