Kassity Payne 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
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these advancements in society, nearly 300,000 children per year in the US are at risk of being forced into the sex-slave industry as well as exploitation, where human trafficking becoming the most rapidly growing crime in the United States, claiming a child victim every four seconds. A few days ago, I attended a Human Trafficking Awareness event that was sponsored by the Faith and Freedom Coalition and Rotary International at a local hospital in Hiram, Georgia, (United States) that presented information
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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
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Sex trafficking as defined by the United States government is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purposes of a commercial sex act. A cameral sexual act is any act in which anything of value is given or received by any person. Sex trafficking is an issue that is mostly kept in the dark. It falls under the umbrella of human trafficking, which is the trade of humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor, or the extraction
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oldest profession and you’d think that at some point in time society would have accepted it. However, not only is prostitution still not legalized in the United States, but it is not even accepted as a profession worth having. Why? What are reasons so terrible that this profession shouldn’t be legalized? Let me clarify, by identifying what I mean by prostitution. By definition, prostitution is the act of performing sex and/or sexual acts in exchange for some kind of compensation, but the part that needs
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Essay #2 In the article Child Prostitutes: Criminals or Victims? By Susan L. Pollet she talks about child prostitution in the state of New York and how they need to change their laws and the way they handle child prostitutes. Pollet talks about how there isn’t a federal law for prostitution and how the minors involved in prostitution aren’t criminals, but victims in some cases. Pollet did a great job in this article by hitting all the main points that she would need to discuss to make this article
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Somaly was victimized by just about every root cause of human trafficking that exists. She was abandoned by her biological family before the age six and left to fend for herself in an extremely impoverished village of Cambodia. The lack of family support and parental protection had a significant effect on her development as a young girl. She grew up lonely and without any positive guidance which made her extremely vulnerable to trafficking. In addition to lacking any family support or financial assistance
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FOREVER A SLAVE In her TED talk, “The Fight Against Slavery”, co-founder of Prajwala and anti-trafficking crusader Sunitha Krishnan uses ethos and logos appeals but she mostly uses pathos in her speech. Sunitha uses pathos through the descriptions of how these women and children are treated, how many of them ended up in this situation, and how they are treated once they get out. Firstly, she talks of the horrific ways in which these people are treated. In one particular
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Webster’s dictionary, human trafficking is the act in which humans are treated as possessions to be exploited into prostitution or involuntary labor. This issue affects virtually every country in the world, and law enforcements have struggled to end this heinous crime. This act involves high profits for traffickers making it one of the fastest growing illegal activity in the world (Human Trafficking, Funk). Because of
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Human Trafficking In the United States." Gender Issues 27.1/2 (2010): 1-26. Academic Search Complete. Web. 25 Oct. 2015. In Hepburn and Simon’s article “Hidden in Plain Sight: Human Trafficking in the United States”, the authors Hepburn and Simon describe several different kinds of human trafficking and where it takes place. They begin the article with a basic description of the characteristics of human trafficking: “Despite nation-specific differences, the characteristics of human trafficking are
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