...Human-Sex Trafficking In China; Human Rights Being a male is more significant than being a female in Chinese culture. Needless to say, women are less valued than men; therefore, human trafficking, where Chinese women get sold to become sex slaves, is very common. China has become the sex and labor trafficking capital of the world, according to U.S. Representative Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican. This is a highly controversial topic because it’s not brought up often, that’s why people are not that familiar with this appalling situation. Thus, this paper’s main purpose is to inform about human trafficking in China and how it operates: China’s human rights and law policies, who are the audiences involved, how they get picked, women’s education regarding diseases, where and why it happens, the dangers that are involved, how money plays a big issue in bribery, and lastly, what’s being done by Chinese government about it. Bringing about the adoption of the One Child Policy law, and the preference for having male babies led the impact of having more men than women in China by tens of million. The consequences of this matter have created men in China not able to seek women to marry. This ordeal has not led to an increase in the human trafficking of women, but also to an increase in the number of prostitutes and the amount of men who seek them out for their services (Quan, I.) On the basis of who gets picked, predominately, these sex workers are girls that are internal migrants...
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...In China Yang Zengjian’s seven-year-old son was abducted. Along with four other fathers whose children had been abducted drove 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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...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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...China, the most populous country known to man, dehumanizes its citizens by recklessly ending lives as an attempt to profit from murder. Undeniably, an unbelievable amount of crimes exist all throughout the world. Such crimes in particular, known as crimes against humanity, are deliberately executed to systematically violate human rights to a widespread population. For decades, these crimes have persisted across China and still remain today. China violates human rights through crimes involving torture, harassment, and most notably, organ trafficking. Organ trafficking is a crime where organs are illegally forced or taken from bodies to use for transplantations. These crimes in China cause controversy throughout the world resulting in failed attempts to end such offenses. China’s human rights violations...
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...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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...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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...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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...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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...Title : “Exploitation of workers” Introduction Ethics can be defined as going beyond what is legal and doing what is right, even when no one is looking. While unethical behaviours at the workplace, are actions that don’t follow the acceptable standards of business in operations. Exploitation in general terms can be defined as taking unfair advantage of someone else’s weakness. A person, who is being exploited, accepts voluntarily the deal offered because it makes them “better off”. There are different forms of exploitation such as forced labour, child prostitution, human trafficking for sex work and the abuse of migrant workers. Exploitation at the workplace is largely considered as an unethical behaviour on the part of the employer. Exploiting...
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...intercourse 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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...Drug Trafficking Global Issues in Context Online Collection, 2014. [pic] [pic] Drug trafficking refers to the international black market trade of illegal drugs. While some drugs are produced and sold locally, the cultivation and manufacture of some illicit drugs occurs in only a few locations around the world. Most of the world's supply of cocaine comes from Central and South America and most opiates are cultivated in Central, Southeast, and Southwest Asia. A chain of drug cartels ships drugs around the world in order to get the drugs from the point of production to the user on the street. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in its “World Drug Report 2008” estimates that 208 million people worldwide use drugs annually on at least one occasion. The vast majority of global drug uses involved some form of cannabis. UNODC estimates that 165 million people have used cannabis in the last year. Amphetamine use comes in second with about 25 million users per year. According to United Nations (UN) estimates, the drug trade is a $400 billion per year industry. Drug trafficking traces its roots back to eighteenth-century China. By the late seventeenth century, opium addiction had become a major problem on the Chinese coast, where European traders imported opium from other parts of Asia. In 1729, the Chinese emperor banned the importation of opium into China. As the supply of opium decreased, the price of opium increased and drug smuggling increased. By the end of...
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...Having been traded and transferred within the second largest and fastest growing criminal industry, humans as merchandise have manufactured a 32 billion dollar industry. Despite the global reach of the human trafficking industry, which exploits at least 30 million people throughout the world, human trafficking continues its business through black market transactions, ill-equipped or ill-informed governments, and global inadequacies. Human trafficking is being viewed as a form of modern day slavery. It is an act that subjects men, women and children to participate in fraud, coercion, prostitution and labor. Failure to follow orders results in being beaten up, starved, sexually abused and possibly killed. The human trafficking industry in Thailand is known to be one of the world’s largest and the most brutal as numerous women, children and men are being abducted from their homes and work on a daily basis, most of whom are minorities. Human trafficking is not only about individuals but also has a mass effect on our social fabric, economic...
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...RISKS OF LIVING AND WORKING IN CHINA MISHINGO FUTURE IYE MOCHAKULA ABSTRACT There are two countries in the world whose culture has the historical depth, confidence, and population spread to make them hold-outs in a world that is increasingly homogenous, and those are India and China. Both are attractive in different ways for Westerners seeking experience living and working in a different culture. China, the subject of this report, attracts foreigners by its past and present profile: an old eastern culture that is rapidly rising to take its place among the world’s greatest modern civilizations, a stature that is all the more intriguing given the way it is blazing its own path in terms of the social contract. Do not be dissuaded by an element of bad press in the West; news tends to wallow in the alternative reality of political drama, while the realities on the street are something quite else. Chinese people are indeed largely welcoming and open, and opportunities abound for the astute. Yet China is not easy. Strange food, different ways of doing things, different social contracts and expectations, uneven levels of development and modernity, and the widespread inability to communicate in English all combine to make China a hard country to move to. But for those who brave the adversities, and immerse themselves into China, the rewards are undeniable—at the very least you learn something...
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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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...Psychoactive drugs are chemical substances that affect the function of the nervous system, altering perception, mood or consciousness. Alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine are the most widely consumed psychoactive drugs worldwide. Recreational drugs are drugs that are not used for medical purpose, but are instead used for pleasure. Common recreational drugs include alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine, as well as other substances such as opiates and amphetamines. Some drugs can cause addiction and habituation and all drugs can cause side effects. Many drugs are illegal for recreational purpose and international treaties such as the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs exist for the purpose of legally prohibiting certain substances. History of Drug Trafficking Chinese edicts against opium smoking were made in 1729, 1796 and 1800. Addictive drugs were prohibited in the west in the...
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