profits even if it is unethical. When we talk about slavery we think of an event that happened in the past but modern day slavery is on the increase today. Human (child) beings are being trafficked as sex slaves, for cheap labor Statistics shows that Over 700,000 women are taken prisoner each year in the worldwide network of human trafficking. Approximately 50,000 of these women end up in the United States. This is a billion dollar business. It is like a drug and people and organizations that profit
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wrong but in my opinion children are innocent. It is the adults that are committing the immoral and relativism crime. Although some of the children become soldiers voluntary, I do not feel that it is very voluntary that a child is drugged or made a sex slave or convinced that they will go to a higher heaven because of an action or joining of a military. This to me is an example of a cultural difference of
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CMST&101 Persuasive Speech November 12, 2013 Human Trafficking: Modern Day Slavery Thesis: By raising awareness and being involved in the movement, we can help prevent human trafficking. I. Attention A. Attention Getter: What is human trafficking? According to the Polaris Project, Human trafficking is a form of modern day slavery. It is the illegal trade of human beings, mainly for the purposes of forced labor and sex trafficking. B. Credibility: We thought that slavery was
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"Human Trafficking: The New Era of Slavery" When the word slavery comes to mind in the present day most people think of it as something that has passed, a long and tragic historical event that involved the capture and exportation and exploitation of human beings as forced labor with no freedom of movement or choice. Slavery brings to mind the forcible deportation of Africans into the new world, associated with colonization and empirical money making ventures, like sugar, coffee and cotton. Yet
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severe punishments and increases prison sentences for human traffickers, imposes new criminal fines that require convicted human traffickers to fund support services for human trafficking victims, changes how evidence can be used against human trafficking victims, prohibits evidence that victim engaged in sexual conduct from being used against victim in court proceedings, and mandates additional law enforcement training on handling human trafficking cases. The penalties for convicted traffickers include
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In Laura Maria Agustin’s Sex at the Margins, power-knowledge is exercised over individuals by way of controlling institutions and is carried out through such things as punishment, education, and protection. This utilization of power-knowledge as a method to understand “the cult of domesticity and attached ideas of moral reclamation and regulation” was interesting, especially with its application to sex work (Agustin 99). A startling example that was illustrated in “Rise of the Social” and thoroughly
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Human Trafficking SLK 320 Group Assignment T a bl e of c o nt e n t s 1. 2. 3. Understanding of trafficking in persons ............................ 1 Understanding of why it occurs ....................................... 2 Qualitative research to determine the impact of human trafficking .................................................................... 4 4. Holistic understanding of the impact of human trafficking on multiple levels .....................................................
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WHO AM I The first social category I can identify myself with is being a woman and the second would be I am of white race. The most controversial would be my social category as a woman. Discrimination of women can start as early as childbirth. According to www.dosomething.org UNICEF reports, “Where there is a clear economic or cultural preference for sons, the misuse of [pregnancy diagnostic tools] can facilitate female feticide.” This means that in certain countries like China families will
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common misconceptions of trafficking is that it involves only foreign born victims crossing international borders into the United States.” Human trafficking, as defined in the North Dakota Century Code, involves sexual exploitation of a victim if that victim is less than eighteen years of age or if coercion is used for an individual of any age. Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) in the United States is sometimes referred to as domestic minor sex trafficking (Bounds, Julion, & Delaney
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including contacts for sexual purposes, molestation, statutory rape, (child) prostitution, (child) pornography, exposure, incest or other sexually exploitative activities. Both girls and boys may be prostituted. Some children have had hundreds of sex partners. They usually continue a life of prostitution into adulthood. Federal laws in the United States, as well as laws in every state, ban child prostitution. In the United States, any person who knowingly transports any child under the age of 18
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