...Human Trafficking Human Trafficking: The Five “W”s 1 Human Trafficking 2 The Five “W”s of Human Trafficking Executive Summary What is Human Trafficking? Page 5 Where does it happen? Page 6 Who are the victims? Page 9 Why does it happen? Page 12 What are we doing to stop it? Page 13 Conclusion Page 16 Works Cited Page 3 Page 18 Human Trafficking 3 Executive Summary: This paper was written to help educate people on the horrors of this extremely profitable organized crime. Human trafficking is defined as the recruitment, transporting, or harboring of people for the purposes of slavery, forced labor, or sexual exploitation. There are two different types of human trafficking: labor trafficking and sex trafficking. Sex trafficking is the sale of women and children for prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation. Sex trafficking is a lot more common than labor trafficking; labor trafficking...
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...The Trafficking of Women and Children in China Imagine walking down the street to class, when all of a sudden two men come out from around the corner, grab you, and throw you into a van. After what feels like hours, the van finally arrives at a building and the men take you and put you in a small room, filled with frightened women and crying children of all ages. When asking another lady where they all were and what was going on, she explains that everyone in the room had been either sold or abducted and must now work as a prostitute to earn profits for the owners of the sex business. Human trafficking is the act of transporting, enlisting, or harboring an individual by use of force or intimidation for the sole purpose of exploitation (China). China is a source, transit, and destination country for thousands of women and children who have been either forced or sold into trafficking (China). Chinese women are often recruited by false promises of employment and are later forced into prostitution while children are often recruited by traffickers who promise their parents that they will send them a percentage of the money the child makes. Between 2001 and 2005, police in China investigated over 28,000 trafficking cases and the Chinese government arrested more than 25,000 suspected traffickers and rescued more than 35,000 victims (China). Despite this investigation, the Chinese government have not increased their efforts to stop trafficking since 2005 and claim that they...
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...with strangers they find on the street, and even extracting organs from one person and sending them off for someone else to use that really “needs” them. Human trafficking has been one of the biggest and most rapidly growing crimes in the United States today. One of the most commonly and well known trafficking is sexual exploitation of women and young women is the sexual abuse of the people through exchange of sex or sexual acts for drugs, food, shelter, protection and/or money. It also includes creating pornography and sexual websites. Sometimes it’s the people doing the prostitution or selling themselves for money making their own decision. They feel like there’s no other way to get money or get through life so they sell themselves in order to get their basic needs but other times there’s a third person involved making them have intercourse with other people to gain money or drugs. In either/or situation it is still illegal. Another type of trafficking is commercial sexual exploitation of children to have sex or do sexual things with a child under the age of 18 that includes a third person. This includes the use of boys and girls in sexual activities usually for exchange of money. Usually in the streets, or indoors such as broths, bars, hotels or restaurants. Commercial sex includes trafficking of girls and boys for sex trade, use...
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...Governments Worldwide Must Place More Focus On Human Trafficking A collection of current articles regarding human trafficking has been collected throughout this semester. The news reports vary greatly in geographic location but the underlying message that these events share is unified and clear. Governments worldwide must create specialized agencies, victim relief units, and allocate more funds towards the understanding and prevention of this growing crime. Due to the complexity of human trafficking, non-traditional law enforcement must be used. As stated in several of the articles gathered, a growing need for information sharing between organizations has become necessary. With enhanced human trafficking policies and implementation; accurate crime statistics can be gathered, victims can be identified, perpetrators can be prosecuted, and organized crime patterns can be seen. This paper will be broken down into several components that cover this multi-faceted, illegal industry. First, a description and definition of human trafficking will be given. The current prevention methods will follow, including rough statistics gathered around the world. Next, I will outline the difficulties that law enforcement encounter with human trafficking. The strategies for improvement will make up the bulk of the paper. Human trafficking has been deemed the 21st century slave trade. Inadequate laws against trafficking and police negligence have allowed for this human rights violation...
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...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 States now known as the NIS (Newly Independent States). Not only did they serve as the fastest-growing source region, but also they were the introductory, contextual example of the supply side of sex trafficking. Most recent studies suggest that there are as many as 500,000 women from the NIS sold into...
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...“Wherever you live, regardless of the city or nation, some form of human trafficking exists” (Hepburn, 2010, p. 2). This same theory is also true for trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation. Sex trafficking trades people, mainly women and girls, into the commercial sex industry to be used. Sex trafficking has profited billions of dollars into the traffickers in various nations. A nation-state is a term coined to a country that rules themself, has a system of rule, and people and a place to rule over. Even within nation-states, the definition of prostitution and sex work can change dramatically throughout time due to concepts such as social norms. “Both ‘deviant behavior’ and the laws dealing with it are, of course, a product of ‘dramatized social movements’ resting on ‘cultural imagination’ (Ball, 2012, p. 26)....
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...PUBLIC ISSUE IN MALAYSIA PROSTITUTION IN MALAYSIA In Malaysia, prostitution is the illegal activities run by the irresponsible party. But in other Asian country, prostitution is legal because it is contribute in the economic growth like in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, and the Philippines. Prostitutes in Malaysia majority are from neighbouring countries, because of human trafficking done by the irresponsible party that bring illegal immigrant to Malaysia and force or voluntary work as sex worker. This illegal activities infamous red-light hotspot is at Petaling Street, Jalan Alor, Chow Kit, Jalan Sultan Ismail, Jalan Bukit Bintang, Jalan Hicks, Brickfields and Jalan Imbi, where they provided sex services. Furthermore, in the modern age they make the sex services available online with the help of social media like Facebook, Wechat, Whatapps as their medium. Teh Wei Soon. Friday, 10 October 2014. http://www.malaysiandigest.com/features/522410-prostitution-in-malaysia-a-taboo-subject-that-is-surprisingly-big-business.html . To overcome this issue, one of the solution needed by the government is to enforce the law. Those who run prostitution shall be imprisoned and given counselling to them. Laws must also be taken over the customers who subscribe to prostitutes. For example, in Malaysia for a Muslim who subscribe prostitutes may be prosecuted for committing sin. This is because people will fear with the laws and they will follow and try to avoid the activities that opposite...
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...The illegal trade of human beings for forced labor, prostitution and reproductive favors is known as human trafficking. Article #4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states. “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms”. Throughout the world men, women and children are being trafficked into a form of modern day slavery. Mainly women and small children are being forced into doing physical labor which includes prostitution in several countries. Many women and children are forced into this billion dollar company are coming from Asian countries like Japan, China, Laos, Thailand and the Philippines. The majority of these women and children are sold into slavery to pay off certain other debts, or they leave their homes in hopes of labor. Not knowing what they could be getting their selves into. They will think they’re going to work but they’ll be a victim of trafficking and be forced to do drugs and be put out on the streets for prostitution selling their selves. There are many organized groups of people that perform this operation. The main groups are the Chinese Triads and the Japanese Yakuza. Human trafficking occurs in almost every country, it is mostly successful in big cities that have a lot of tourists. They usually look for people around the age of 17-25 because they’re the people that are young and vulnerable and also have the capability of doing hard labor. Children are also at risk in kidnapping...
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...country to slow down or put an end to global criminal issues. Examples of crimes that disturb the criminal justice system on a global level are drug and weapon trafficking. One crime in particular that has been brought to light in recent years that affects the world is human trafficking. One way that human trafficking is becoming a worldwide issue is through the use of the internet. Perpetrators or organized crime groups can go on the internet and find people they want to “buy.” Most of the websites are considered “underground or black market” sites and access is available through memberships. The pages to follow will address what human trafficking is and how the worldwide criminal justice systems are combatting the issue. There will be a summary of a news story covering a cybercrime that had a worldwide impact. Following the story, will be a discussion on how the worldwide criminal justice systems handle the incident. Lastly, an opinion on the effectiveness of the systems’ response to the issue and suggestions for future responses to combat or prevent cyber crimes will be provided. Defining human trafficking The words, human trafficking, sum up their meaning. One can define this crime as slavery of the modern age (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2015). For professional and academic reasons, human trafficking is the recruitment, transfer, or receipt of a person. Humans can be trafficked using a threat, force, abduction, fraud, and coercion (United Nations...
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...Human Trafficking -What impact does human trafficking have on the world? Human trafficking is a multi-dimensional threat. It deprives people of their human rights and freedoms, it is a global health risk, and it fuels the growth of organized crime. It is kind of modern day slavery and is the third largest criminal industry in the world after arms and drug dealing. It involves an act of recruiting, transporting, transferring, harboring or receiving a person through a use of force, coercion or other means, for the purpose of exploiting them. The common denominator of trafficking scenarios is the use of force, fraud, or coercion to control people; that control is tied to inducing someone into commercial sex acts, or labour or services. Men around the world profit in pleasure and in price from the exploitation of women and children. Poverty and global disparities in the rule of law are conditions in which human trafficking, like HIV/AIDS and other killers of the poor, thrives. Trafficking of children often involves exploitation of the parents' extreme poverty. The latter may sell children to traffickers in order to pay off debts or gain income or they may be deceived concerning the prospects of training and a better life for their children. Nearly 80 percent of trafficked persons are women and girls and up to 50 percent are children. It is estimated that upwards of 17,000 people are trafficked into the United States each year; an additional 200,000 American children are considered...
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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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...trafficked each year. Many are kidnapped or simply sold by a family member into sex slavery. There children are often treated like animals living under the rules of an owner that mistreats them and no freedom is given to any children that wants to be reunited with their love ones, so they can be able to hug and see their families again and not work for owners that just sell their bodies to older men. Cambodia is commonly known for child sex trafficking. Young girls are being lured into having sex with men. CNN states in their article "Children are mostly abducted in the country of Malaysia and China to work for free in the sex trafficking business in the country of Cambodia". Children are forced to have sex with young girls/men are in high risk to get HIV/AIDS: There are many horrific results for example working for food, helping family, working for another people, that leads to children being sex trafficked in Cambodia Children in Cambodia that confirm their virginity are being sold immediately to men. Many mothers force their children to work in the sex business because for the lack of money in their household. Children don't have...
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...age of eleven where she was forced into sex slavery, since then she has been sold to other brothels and owners. She’s kept locked in a room for days with only being fed a couple times , the owners keep her pumped up with a cocktail of illegal drugs and forces her to have sex with up to eight guys a day . Everything has been taken from her, family, innocents and her freedom. They told her she will be let go when she makes back the money she has cost them and until this day she will never know when she’ll be let go and see her family again. Human Trafficking is a big issue in the world that constantly increases, many families are torn apart and people’s lives and innocents are taken from them. Human Trafficking is such a unseen issue and many people don’t understand it that it’s being pushed off to the side and ignored. The people who are suffering from human trafficking are calling out for our help and we need to put our foot down and start bringing awareness to everyone’s attention. Trafficked victims life’s are impacted by this in horrible ways, some don’t even make it out of brothels because of diseases or being beaten so bad. Victims that make it out still don’t have it easy because there ether living with a virus or having psychological issues and being discriminated by family members. The goal of this paper is to investigate the issues and concerns of human trafficking and bring awareness to the problem. Human Trafficking is a difficult problem in society today...
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...to article “Human Trafficking will not end until it ends in India” by Fox News explains how Indian women are the poorest of the poor and are excluded from society. They have limited education or access to justice and have been taught for generations that they are worthless, less than human. They have no idea they have rights. Dalit women are pressured to India’s human trafficking because they have no political voice, no protection by law enforcement, and no access to the courts. Human trafficking is the third largest profitable industry in the world. India is the epicenter of human sex trafficking. The latest figures estimate that over 1.2 million children are trafficked worldwide every year and child prostitution contains the highest trafficked children. Trafficking is one of the hardest crimes to track and investigate due to the lack of data. India is the most dangerous country for women today, according to the UN. “By bringing an end to human trafficking in the number one source and destination for human trafficking victims in the world, we can end trafficking around the globe.” (Fox News) The challenge still remains of how to end this worldwide issue. History/Background According to article “Cross-Border Trafficking in Nepal and India-Violating Women’s Rights” human trafficking is both a human rights violation and the fastest growing criminal industry in the world. Human trafficking is the third largest organized crime after drugs and arms trafficking. (US Department of...
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...More and more children are being lured out of their homes, away from their families, and into a dark world that no one should ever be a victim to. Children are being harbored, transported, and recruited for the purposes of labor services, exploitation and sex commercialing. This is called trafficking of a minor. Child trafficking is rapidly becoming one of the largest criminal industries in the world and American children are being denied their opportunities to reach their full potential every day. Our country cannot simply ignore this with the social impact this leaves on thousands of families that are unaware of what is going on right in their backyard. The government, both federal and state, needs to raise the awareness of child trafficking and our law enforcement needs to make it a higher priority to stop this injustice and bring children back to their homes. Today’s modern day slavery is at an all-time high, 1.2 million children are being trafficked every year becoming imprisoned, sexually abused, or an employee for hard labor. This is not only happening in foreign countries but in America as well, children who run away or stray too far from their homes are being kidnapped and taken away. This goes against a child’s well-being and it’s a violation to their rights as a citizen to the United States, not to mention the psychological damage these kids experience. These predators prefer young children because of their “nimble fingers” and they are less likely to demand for...
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