In the database article, "Prevention Prosecution Protection: HUMAN TRAFFICKING," Dearnley and Chalke convey essential steps to battle human trafficking. Raising awareness and understanding modern day slavery are necessary in combating the problem. Awareness of trafficking must be increased, as “many people still do not know what trafficking is, or do not care” (Dearnley and Chalke). If awareness is heightened, then people will realize the significance of their potential to prevent human trafficking from occurring. Recognizing and understanding trafficking is also important, as “measures taken to combat it, is often entangled with people smuggling, immigration and asylum, prostitution and other forms of organized crime” (Dearnley and Chalke).…
Global Issues Profile: Human Trafficking There are more human slaves in the world today than ever before in history. Human trafficking is the most common form of modern slavery and a grave violation of human rights and is spread out from third-world to first-world countries. It’s a twenty-seven billion dollar plus industry that victimizes over 35 million people worldwide. Human trafficking is the act of illegal recruitment or transport by means of force, coercion, exploitation or other such tactics typically for forced labor or commercial sex purposes (UNODC).…
Aronowitz, Alexis A. Human trafficking Human Misery print Alexis A. Aronowitz is a professor in international justice, and her field of expertise is on human trafficking. What makes her an expert in this field is her knowledge of human trafficking, aggressive hate offenses, and aggressions well as criminology. Alexis has premeditated this course for teaching at the U.S and Germany universities and is at present an Assistant University lecturer of criminology at the University College of Utrecht. Alexis looks at the criminals as well as unlawful institutions that transfer and take advantage of other victims. She concentrates on diverse groups of victims on top of the variety of types and markets for trafficking lots of which remain ignored…
Due to the lack of awareness about what is going on around communities and states, many men, women, and even children are sexually assaulted, beaten, threatened, drugged, and forced into servitude every hour of every day. There will be no solution to the growing problem of human trafficking until more people are aware of how human trafficking takes place, until states begin to deter human trafficking more effectively, and until more individuals take an active role in reporting possible acts of trafficking to the proper authorities. Therefore human trafficking cannot be defined as any one particular crime; it is not simply sexual exploitation. It is much more than that because human trafficking has many different characteristics. In the article "Hidden in Plain Sight: Human Trafficking in the United States,” Hepburn and Simon state that “. . .…
Hannah Britton argues these major points in her piece Policy Responses to Human Trafficking in Southern Africa: Domesticating International Norms, “We argue that the theories of international norm diffusion and localization are instructive for understanding how trafficking policies are being developed in southern Africa, and these theories provide important insights into how the policies and norms are working as they are in this region” (2014). Britton argues that over the past five years Southern Africa has been more effective in preventing and fighting human trafficking on international and regional levels but they have not been able to stop the trafficking that has already been started within the region. But, she does make a point about how officials are not educated on the deterring social elements that human trafficking has and they do not understand exactly why it is that they should make even bigger efforts in stopping this type of crime. It is noted that Southern Africa has implemented new comprehensive trafficking policies, after, the establishment of different protocols and organizations. Britton notes, “Southern Africa is an important region for analysis because of its push to implement comprehensive trafficking policies, following the establishment of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime in 2000, hereafter referred to as the Palermo Protocol or Palermo (United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols, Palermo Protocols 2000)” (2014).…
In 2000, trafficking was codified in the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, emphasizing that trafficking does not describe a single act but rather refers to the forceful recruitment, transportation, and control of people into sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery, or organ removal. However, there is no international consensus regarding the definition of exploitation. This issue generally warrants legal intervention from the state and public outcry from the international community. For the most part, throughout the 20th century, the international community remained silent regarding human trafficking. During the 1970s and 1980s, the international women’s movement sprung up and reintroduced sexual slavery back into the public agenda.…
But it is up to the United States, as the leading example of the fight against human trafficking to develop, implement, and enforce new laws that will serve to fulfil the 3P’s mentioned in the TVPA. By being the spearhead and overcoming these issues, other nations may also take up the challenge, creating a global effort to eradicate human trafficking. Many recommendations can be made to the United States to change current policies and implement new ones. In an effort to end human trafficking at home, special attention needs to be paid to improving human rights conditions in origin and transit countries so as to stop the process of human trafficking before it even starts. The TVPA authorizes money to be used as foreign assistance to help countries build their own capacity to fulfill the 3P’s.…
The United States Customs and Border Protection, defines human trafficking as “[occurring] when a person is induced by force, fraud or coercion to: work under the total or near-total control of another person or organization (slavery or involuntary servitude), forced to pay off a loan by working instead of paying money, for an agreed-upon or unclear period of time (debt bondage) or even without an agreement as to the timeframe (peonage), [or] perform a sex act for money or anything of value (if under 18, force, fraud or coercion is not required)”. Human trafficking is considered to be a modern day form of slavery and many cases are being reported daily. The term human trafficking is often mistaken with the term human smuggling but both are…
Although, there are multiple reasons that cause children and adults as being particularly vulnerable to human trafficking. As a matter of fact, trafficking does not exist solely as a result of human vulnerability. Human trafficking is being driven by the demand for cheap labor and sexual services. Often, traffickers victimize their victims in their desire to generate profit from the demand. In order to solve the problem of human trafficking, we must prevent trafficker’s exploitation or any other harm resulting from the business of high profit and low risk business.…
Quoting the US federal law in 2000, Trumbull makes it known that there is an undeniable parallelism between the definitions of human trafficking in the case of forced manual labor or slavery and in the case of involuntary prostitution and sex trafficking. Trumbull identifies human trafficking by the actions “‘ the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons.’” the author also notes that human and sex trafficking are more than often related to the migration of people across borders (Trumbull 1). These immigrants come to new countries in seek of bountiful jobs but are in reality coerced into paying back their form of debt for being smuggled across borders through servitude, slavery, prostitution or other illegal crimes where the victim is performing acts against their will.…
Human Trafficking according to the Merriam Webster dictionary is ”the organized criminal activity in which human beings are treated as possessions to be controlled and exploited as by being forced into prostitution or involuntary labor.” This is an unfortunate circumstance where heartless people take advantage over others who are being oppressed and conformed into an environment that is closely controlled. No matter what a person’s legal status may be in the United States they can be captured into this ring. For example, people are lured into schemes such as false job offers or free travel vacations which entice an innocent soul with a reward but actually lead them to treacherous enslavement. Some reasons traffickers are placed in their positions…
Human trafficking is one the world 's largest illegal crime rings that profits from the sexual and physical exploitation of individuals making it a violation of human rights. Annually there are about 17,500 victims that are smuggled into different countries such as the United States, and are forcefully trafficked into a variation of crime rings (Chisolm-Straker, 2006). Human trafficking is most often described as a form of modern day slavery because of its mistreatment and exploitation of the trafficked individuals (Lee, 2007, p.1). There are several situations that lead to the trafficking of individuals, and victims are forced to work in a number of different markets. This includes areas such as manual labour where victims are often left…
Humanly speaking, everyone owns a list of pet peeves or things considered “intolerable” according to Elliot (2008) the intolerable things can be agreed upon by individuals and groups (235). For example, human trafficking is intolerable; enslaving children and adults in the business of prostitution is troubling to those who exist on the other side of the issue. Families are losing their loved ones due to predators abducting their children and shipping them across borders as an underground business. This is something that destroys lives of the victims and their families. Therefore the impact crosses cultural barriers and languages which create an open door for different people groups to work in unity to fight against sexual exploitation.…
These actions include increasing the penalties of traffickers and compelling other countries to heighten their regulation of trafficking. Those involved in the political arena to bring an ending of human trafficking are very aware of the difficult task that is before them. Observers also see hope by recalling the history of overcoming seemingly unconquerable situations such as legalized slavery and piracy, or even polio or smallpox (“Human…
It can be said that human trafficking is the modern-day slavery. Human trafficking is the world’s fastest growing global crime. It involves transporting, recruiting, and harbouring of persons through the use of force, abduction, deception, abuse of power, and vulnerability of others for the purpose of exploitation and personal profit. Each year millions of women, men, and children are victims of this crime, however, especially children and women. Human trafficking is illegal worldwide but continues to occur everywhere.…