...“Sex Trafficking” “Human trafficking is the illegal movement of people, typically for the purposes of forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation. Everyone needs to be informed about the things happening around them, one being the issue of sex trafficking. Sex trafficking involves the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the exchange of sexual activities or a transaction where money or other items of value are exchanged. The act of human trafficking is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, in which the person is forced to perform a sexual act under the age of 18. Whenever we hear the words “sex trafficking” we immediately think of women and children overseas who are being forced into prostitution....
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...society, most commonly referred to as human trafficking. Human trafficking is the 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. According the U.S. State Department study, some 14,500 to 17,500 people are trafficked into the United States from overseas and enslaved each year. (Bales and Soodlater 6). Slavery has always, and will always be a part of the world we live in. It has evolved from a socially acceptable way of life for the upper class to an illegal act for a cheap price. Human trafficking today is most commonly in the form of sexual slavery or forced labor. The United States government has begun to take notice in this new type of slavery epidemic and are taking action and trying to gain control, but sadly few human trafficking cases are solved a year. The human trafficking industry is the third most profitable illegal enterprise, following guns and drugs, making it a rapid growing industry. According to the Polaris Project “because human trafficking is considered to be one of the fastest growing criminal industries, the U.S. government and academic researchers are currently working on an up-to-date estimate of the total number of trafficked persons in the United States annually. With 100,000 children estimated to be in the sex trade in the United States each year, it is clear that the total number of human trafficking victims in the U.S. reaches into the hundreds...
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...The commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age. When I say sex trafficking, what image does your mind conjure? A female from a developing country being snatched off the street, shipped around the world and living in the back of a massage parlor being manipulated into doing sexual favors to eat? Although unfortunately, this story is extremely common, many sex trafficking victims are US-born children. Why do we know more about our president's obnoxious tweets, than children being sold into sex slavery on Polk or O'farrell street? Why can’t the people of The United States and more specifically San Francisco attack sex trafficking the same way...
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...By: Crystal Busscher 5th hour Sex Slaves The Burmese government has committed serious abuses and blocked humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of displaced civilians since June 2011, in fighting in Burma's northern 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...
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...legislation closing the loophole on Nov. 3, 2009. As a nation we should abolish prostitution and get rid of it as a whole research shown that over 100 million women take up prostitution as a full time profession. When they are caught and put into jail they just bond out and back on the streets raising crime and spread of disease. When working in this field prostitutes are a high target for serial killers, rapist, and sociopaths because they feel as if they don’t have the proper tools to protect themselves and they thrive off the struggle. Prostitution should not be legalized because it comes with serious consequences for potential clients and the person soliciting themselves contract or contribute to the spread of disease, it leads to human trafficking and unwanted crime. Being a prostitute or a potential client causes the spread of disease. When it comes to the spread of disease in this profession the most common is HIV. HIV is a high-risk disease that can take a while to show up positive if infected. When a prostitute gets tested waiting 12 weeks for results they could be infected exposing up to 700 clients to HIV. If they find out they have it most likely they will continue with their profession. In...
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...The 13th Amendment states that slavery will not exist in America since being was ratified by Congress and Abraham Lincoln in 1865. During the last ten years human trafficking has grown extensively. This epidemic doesn't plague any single country it happens every where. Here in America, traffickers prey on anyone they see as possible easy target primarily focusing on children. In a 2005 report published by the American State Department about human trafficking there are an estimated 800,000 people that are smuggled over international borders each year with roughly 20,000 of those being smuggled over our own borders annually. Shockingly most of those in that high number are children that are under 18 years old. Modern human traffickers are part of an international ring of organized crime that rank number three when it comes to financial profitting for criminals, bringing in an estimated 9.5 billion dollars annually. This sort of illegal activity can also be tied to other crimes like documentation forgery, drug smuggling, money laundering or even terrorism. Human traffickers of today are like slave owners of years past often using intimidation, threats, and violence to keep their slaves on task. Not only is sex trafficking a major human rights violation it has inadvertently become a global epidemic that we as Americans are often oblivious to. Since it isn't broadcasted repeatedly to the public through the use of media it isn't always in the forefront of our minds. However...
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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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...has been historic awareness created in regards to child abuse since the 1970’s; nonetheless, there has been an increase in neglect, murder, rape, and the trafficking of children. Child maltreatment is not exclusive to any one socioeconomic level; however, “African American, Native American, and multi-racial children have higher incidents of reported abuse than that of other children” (Child Trends, 2014, para 8.). 45% of children age 5 and under are the most vulnerable to maltreatment with fatalities being the highest among these age groups (Safe Horizon, 2014, para.2.). According to statistics from the Department of Health and Human Services, “Nationally four fifths (78.3%) of victims were neglected, 18.3% were physically abused, 9.3% were sexually abused, and 8.5% were psychologically maltreated. For 2012, a nationally estimated 1,640 children died of abuse and neglect at a rate of 2.20 children per 100,000 children in the national population” (DHHS, 2012, p.4., para. 4,5.). Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world, despite the 134 laws to encourage prevention throughout various countries (McDonald, 2014, para. 8.). These children are unparalleled commodities of human flesh for sale primarily by intricate, organized criminal networks with Russia being a major hub for human trafficking (Buckley, 2013). The National Center for Missing...
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...has been historic awareness created in regards to child abuse since the 1970’s; nonetheless, there has been an increase in neglect, murder, rape, and the trafficking of children. Child maltreatment is not exclusive to any one socioeconomic level; however, “African American, Native American, and multi-racial children have higher incidents of reported abuse than that of other children” (Child Trends, 2014, para 8.). 45% of children age 5 and under are the most vulnerable to maltreatment with fatalities being the highest among these age groups (Safe Horizon, 2014, para.2.). According to statistics from the Department of Health and Human Services, “Nationally four fifths (78.3%) of victims were neglected, 18.3% were physically abused, 9.3% were sexually abused, and 8.5% were psychologically maltreated. For 2012, a nationally estimated 1,640 children died of abuse and neglect at a rate of 2.20 children per 100,000 children in the national population” (DHHS, 2012, p.4., para. 4,5.). Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world, despite the 134 laws to encourage prevention throughout various countries (McDonald, 2014, para. 8.). These children are unparalleled commodities of human flesh for sale primarily by intricate, organized criminal networks with Russia being a major hub for human trafficking (Buckley, 2013). The National Center for Missing...
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...Human Trafficking a Global Epidemic The Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1963 by Abraham Lincoln. Many enslaved Americans were thought to be freed. slavery still exist today all over the world. This form of modern day slavery is called human trafficking. The United Nations defines human trafficking as "The recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring of persons, by means of the threat or use of excessive force. Strong-arming a person against their will is abduction then to receive payments for the purpose of exploitation."(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) is “Human trafficking”. Human Trafficking is a global epidemic, which occurs daily, in every country in the world. It’s an international industry that is a growing problem. (Patrick Belser) of ILO has estimated human trafficking to be a $31.6 billion industry. Human Trafficking is the second worst epidemic to the drug trade. The 2010 Trafficking Report by the (U.S. Department of State) estimates that there are 12.3 million people are being confined and held unwillingly around the world. Globally 80% of human trafficking victims are women and 60% are children. Many articles have shown that males are not exempt from trafficking. Human trafficking, is usually a forced act of a person, performing sex 3acts or hard labor in a sweat shop. Some victims agree to be trafficked in order to repay a debt for being brought to the U.S.A. others are transported...
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...year for trafficking females. But if we continue to deny the problem, then stories like the stories to follow shall continue. There are some that are survivors of human trafficking and told through human trafficking stories. One example is in a story titled Preying on the vulnerable. At a Halloween party in Oxon Hill, Md., the trafficker met a 12-year-old runaway who asked for his help in finding a place to stay. Instead, the trafficker – a long-time member of the notorious MS-13 gang – forced the young girl into the commercial sex trade the next day. (dhs) The idea of a twelve-year-old obliged to have sex frightens me. So, my daughter is twelve years old and naïve. The thought of someone hurting her is all the reason why children, caregivers,...
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...While the 13th amendment wiped slavery from the face of America in the 19th century; today, just under the surface, modern day slavery brews: human trafficking. From domestic servitude, to sex slaves, the number of victims has been rising exponentially each year. The trade of human beings is one of the fastest growing problems facing today’s society; because the United States is “the land of the free,” (Star Spangled Banner) many turn a blind eye to its existence as they don’t believe that such an atrocious violation of human rights could exist where there are equal rights extended to all people, and action must be taken in order to protect the innocents involved. When most people think of human trafficking their minds typically jump to foreign...
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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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...Introduction The topic I chose to write about is Sex Trafficking. I was very interested in finding out what happens to children that are abducted, missing, and runaways. There are many articles and stories about missing people in the media. Having two children of my own, it’s kind of scary to even think about them being missing or abducted. I see children at various age groups walking alone and I wonder, where are their parents? I could never allow my children out alone and unsupervised, knowing that something can happen to them. Just recently, I read an article about an under covered sex trafficking scheme in South Saint Louis, Kansas City, and in Springfield, Illinois. Sex trafficking is really becoming an epidemic and it’s happening...
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...Human Trafficking Human trafficking is a problem that is suffered all over the world. Contrary to what many believe, human trafficking is not just a problem that affects women. Human trafficking affects women, men and children all; and not just in the United States all over the world. Human trafficking comes in forms of work labor, sex-trafficking or both. Human trafficking up to this day has not been a forefront issue; but there are some organizations as well as government agencies that are trying to make human tracking a top priority. And assist the victims of this morally inhuman act. Human trafficking in many cases the victims are lured away from their homes and forced to work in prostitution, sweat shops, on farms and many other types of labor. Children are unfortunately one of the most common victims of trafficking. The buyers go to impoverished parents in every country in the world and offer them money for their children. “At least 2 million children are trafficked annually for child labor and sexual exploitation.” ("World vision-fighting child," 2011) Although the human trafficking of children is normally associated with international trafficking; children human trafficking is also an issue domestically. ; With runaway children being lured to different states by their traffickers. Here in the United States, the trafficking problem, though our problem is mostly sex trafficking where young girls and women, and occasionally boys...
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