...Without knowing something exist it is hard to cease it and provide rehabilitation techniques and programs to counteract the latter. Sex trafficking is extremely difficult to identify. Eventually, for ways to service victims “the task is to contribute to combating trafficking through a better understanding of the issues involved.” (Anker 2006:10) The study focuses on ways to be able to understand this fast-growing tragedy of sex trafficking, and to help victims who are caught up in the crime, individuals must learn the motives of trafficking and how it works. There is an idea that the problems of South America and European countries do not transfer over to the land of the free, in this case it is wrong. The fact of the matter, human trafficking...
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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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...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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...The New Slaves: Sex Trafficking in America When most Americans hear the term ‘sex trafficking’ thoughts of helpless women and children in poor, developing, countries come to mind. However, most Americans would be downright shocked and dismayed to learn that many victims of sex trafficking reside right here in the United States. Moreover, many of the victims of sex trafficking in America were victimized by other Americans. This is a pressing national issue to which neither small, rural towns or large, urban cities is immune. What is Sex Trafficking? According to the US State Department’s 2013 Trafficking in Persons report, Sex trafficking is defined as: The act of recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for commercial sex acts through the use of force, fraud, or coercion… defining what constitutes sex trafficking is important because it allows for non-victims to identify possible victims of sex trafficking, and it creates a clear and distinct framework in which to identify, capture, charge, and convict the perpetrators of sex trafficking in the United States. Who are the victims of Sex Trafficking? Sex trafficking victims span all races, ages, gender, etc. Many of the victims of sex trafficking in america are usually impoverished, poorly educated, and live in areas that afford very little upward mobility or opportunities to make a living. Many adult trafficking victims in the United states were swindled by seemingly innocuous work...
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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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...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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...Most people hear about Human Trafficking and think of the horror stories in local news, movies, bestselling books, international reports and other media sources describing the exploitation of persons for sex. Although the theme of Human Sex Trafficking has been a common topic through media, The United States Customs and Border Protection reports that it also includes “Domestic servitude, Labor in a prison-like factory and Migrant agricultural work” Situations like these may take us to think of Hollywood movies such as “Taken”, which show young vacationing girls in a scenario where they are being displayed in a semi private but luxurious auction, to rich foreigners against their will depicting sex trafficking. While we may have the movie...
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...Margaret Burnett IP English Human Trafficking Margaret Burnett AIU-Online Pro. Slotemaker Thesis: While Human trafficking is the second and fastest growing criminal industry in the world, we must find ways to stop this brutal crime. This article, “Forced Sex and labor Trafficking,” by Rebecca Clarren, talks about the investigations into human trafficking. The feminist groups plays a large part in helping with human trafficking. In 2000, Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), which gives a special “T-vista”, that lets victims of sex and labor trafficking to remain temporarily in the U.S., and agree to assist in the investigation and prosecution of their traffickers, after 3 years , the attorney general will give them permanent residence. But it didn’t last long, for the Bush administration had failed to fund its provision in a way that was meaningful. There has been such a lack of traffic investigations, 639 were opened by the Department of Justice between 2001 and 2006. Yet only 360 defendants were charged and only 238 convictions. My assessment on the integrity of this article is that the information is accurate and to the point. The author is legitimate. I definitely find that it is public service information. I will use this information because it is stating why human trafficking is in a slow process of being solved. This article, The Crusade Against Sex Trafficking, by Noy Thrupkaeu, is about efforts that are trying to do...
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...PROSTITUTION IS NOT A CHOICE LEARN A BOUT TH E TRA FFI CKING OF WOMEN AND GIRLS WORLDWIDE, AND FIND OUT WHAT CAN BE DONE TO END THIS WID ESPR EAD PROBLEM … Soroptimist International of the Americas-1709 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 - 215 893 9000 - www.soroptimist.org SOROPTIMIST WHITE PAPER Prostitution is Not a Choice I think so much about what has happened to me. Why these men did what they did to me. Old, disgusting men. It was horrible. They knew I did not want to be there, but they paid their money. They used me. I was their property for the night. They destroyed me. (14-year-old girl at Casa Hogar, a shelter in Costa Rica for children rescued from the country’s sex trade1) OVERVIEW Prostitution has been called the world’s oldest “profession.” In reality, it is the world’s oldest “oppression” and continues to be one of the most overlooked human rights abuses of women on the planet today. 2 Prostitution of women is a particularly lethal form of violence against women, and a violation of a woman’s most basic human rights. While society attempts to normalize prostitution on a variety of levels (discussed later in this paper), prostituted women are subjected to violence and abuse at the hands of paying “clients.” For the vast majority of prostituted women, “prostitution is the experience of being hunted, dominated, harassed, assaulted and battered.” 3 It is “sexual terrorism against women at the hands of men and little is being done to stop the carnage...
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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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...Article Rebuttal NV BCOM/275 July 7, 2014 Article Rebuttal We need a ‘Reparation Superfund’ ( (n.d.). . Retrieved July 8, 2014, from http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/06/08/are-reparations-due-to-african-americans/we-need-a-reparations-superfund), states Mary Frances Berry the former chairwoman of the United States commission on civil rights. Mary Frances Berry believes that ex-slave pension and bounty movement back in 1887 should be followed through. “Whose membership forms stated the number of years they had been working as slaves, along with the names of their slave owners in the plantations on which they lived”. Unfortunately a lot of the ex-slave pension bounty movement individuals have long since passed, “individuals who can prove the identity of slave ancestors, whether they sought reparations in the 19th century are not, could also be eligible.” People who read this article may wonder who will step up to pay these respirations to the individuals who can prove slave ancestry. “Monies could come from corporations that profited from slave labor in from banks and insurance companies that practiced racial discrimination”, states Mary Frances Berry. This ’Reparation Superfund’ is ridiculous and inappropriate. I among millions of Americans are truly saddened by the history of our great country. Tragedy has stung most countries on this planet when it comes to slavery. Slavery dates back to 6800 B.C. “world’s first city grows up in Mesopotamia” (Home - Free the...
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...Business of Human Trafficking: Trafficking Routes Portraying the world’s countless human smuggling routes would require a map lost in a web of arrows. While the maps below are far from a complete catalog of trafficking routes, they denote some of the major regional trends in human trafficking. Source: CIA, The Protection Project, and UNICEF Europe Though most of the movement is from east to west, many migrants from Eastern Europe are also trafficked east, to the Middle East. Important gateways into Western Europe are the Strait of Gibraltar, where North Africans cross into Spain especially during the summertime, and the Adriatic Sea, where migrants, often women and girls, are trafficked from Albania to Italy. By land, migrants from Eastern Europe and Asia follow the Balkan route from former Soviet republics and satellite states through Greece. Illegal immigrants from North Africa also travel across the Mediterranean to Sicily. Many arrive in Britain by smuggling themselves from northern France across the English Channel to the port of Dover. Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, young women from Russia, Estonia, and Latvia are trafficked to Finland, where prostitution is legal, to work in the sex trade. Russian women are also trafficked to Norway and Sweden, where prostitution is also legal. The Americas Most of the movement on this map is directed toward the United States, but a number of South America migrants are trafficked to work in the Japanese sex industry. According...
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...believe that sex slaves, maids who are forced to work for free and having a slave mentality was also abolished in the United States of America in 1863. One’s ignorance could make it easier for criminals to bring sex slaves into the country, trick females into thinking that they could make more money in the USA, and cause females to become so brainwashed that they will believe that they cannot make it in the world without selling their body. By believing that sex slaves do not exist, make it easier for criminals to continue to bring sex slaves to America. Many may think of sex slaves as only being on the continent of Africa or in Thailand, but sex slaves are all over the world. Sex slaves could be in any one of America’s cities, towns or even in one’s neighbor’s house. According to Reddington & Kreisel (2009), in the United States, it was normal to rape your slave or allow your slave to be raped in...
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...Human Trafficking has thrived in all countries of the world, and it has become an easy way to profit off others work. In chapter eight, June Johnson discusses the topic of Defending Human Rights. In Amanda Kloer “Sex Trafficking and HIV/AIDS: A Deadly Junction for Women and Girls,” she discusses the exploits women and children face and its contribution to the AIDS/HIV pandemic. She states “This intersection exists in sex trafficking victims’ increased vulnerability to HIV infection, the proliferation of HIV infection through sex trafficking, and the perceived and actual clashes between HIV and sex trafficking prevention efforts. To stop the further exploitation of people, human trafficking must be stopped; therefore, governments and health...
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...Professor Stephen Henrichon FYW-101 12/1/11 Sex-Trafficking in Cambodia Many believe that all types of slavery have been banished, but in fact sex trafficking is on the rise especially in areas like Thailand and Cambodia. Sex trafficking is a modern form of slavery in which a sexual act is forced and or the person forced to perform the act is under the age of 18 years old (“Sex Trafficking”). Since there have been advancements in technologies such as the innovation of the Internet, a drastic demand for this trade has increased immensely. Sex trafficking is the slavery of the twenty-first century, but has become one the world’s growing industries (“Kristof”). In fact, sex trafficking is the second most profitable illicit business globally, being a nine to twenty-seven billion dollar industry (“Sex Trafficking”). Since sex trafficking is the second most profitable illicit business globally many people are involved hence why there are over 32 million people enslaved around the world (“Sex Trafficking”). Out of those 32 million people enslaved, eighty percent of the victims are in sexual servitude (“Sex Trafficking”). Sex trafficking is everywhere, but many people are not aware of the issue. People around the world have done little to stem the tide of sex trafficking (“Cambodia”). With the help of people observing signs of sexual activity and donating to organizations that help victims of the sex slave trade, the sex trafficking can hopefully be put to an end, not only in Cambodia...
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