Slavery was abolished in the United States in 1865. In 1981, over a hundred years later, Mauritania became the last country in the world to abolish slavery. Yet despite the abolishment of slavery, modern day slavery is still running strong and is worth over 150 billion dollars annually. Human trafficking is a breach on basic human rights and the exploitation of these people needs to stop. There are people leading the fight on this travesty, both domestically and internationally, and they are using policies and laws to try permanently end modern-day slavery. There is this idea that people get in their head about human trafficking, that idea looks a lot like the movie Taken. Someone following a couple of teen girls in a foreign country, and
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The act establishes human trafficking as a federal crime, and attaches severe penalties to anyone’s involvement in such crimes. It also mandates compensation be paid to the victims of human trafficking. It further works to prevent trafficking by establishing the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, which is required to publish a Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report each year. The TIP report describes and ranks the efforts of countries to combat human trafficking. The act also established the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, which helps to make sure the Trafficking Victims Protection Act is being implemented. The Act also protects the victims of human trafficking by giving them the T-1 visa, which allows victims, and their families to become temporary U.S. residents and allows them eligibility to become permanent U.S. residents after three years.(5) There are several other policies that are currently being used to best prosecute perpetrators and protect victims of these crimes. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act has been reauthorized four times since it original policy was established in 2000. The added things like, allowing the victim to sue their trafficker, establishing federal aid for …show more content…
While prostitution in India was not a crime, doing it in a brothel within 200 meters of any public place is illegal. The Immoral Traffic (Submission) Act was the first step for Indian official to abolish prostitution. They wanted to make various aspects of sex work illegal until it was all illegal. The Immoral Traffic (Submission) Act was reauthorized in 1986 to The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, which added more restriction on prostitution and little to human trafficking (6). In 1983 the Emigration Act was enacted to consolidate and amend the law related to emigration of Indian citizens, applied only to ‘recruitment’ and “recruitment agents.’ Sexual exploitation, kidnapping, slavery and forced labor are all covered under the Indian Penal Code, which is the main criminal code in
The act establishes human trafficking as a federal crime, and attaches severe penalties to anyone’s involvement in such crimes. It also mandates compensation be paid to the victims of human trafficking. It further works to prevent trafficking by establishing the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, which is required to publish a Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report each year. The TIP report describes and ranks the efforts of countries to combat human trafficking. The act also established the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, which helps to make sure the Trafficking Victims Protection Act is being implemented. The Act also protects the victims of human trafficking by giving them the T-1 visa, which allows victims, and their families to become temporary U.S. residents and allows them eligibility to become permanent U.S. residents after three years.(5) There are several other policies that are currently being used to best prosecute perpetrators and protect victims of these crimes. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act has been reauthorized four times since it original policy was established in 2000. The added things like, allowing the victim to sue their trafficker, establishing federal aid for …show more content…
While prostitution in India was not a crime, doing it in a brothel within 200 meters of any public place is illegal. The Immoral Traffic (Submission) Act was the first step for Indian official to abolish prostitution. They wanted to make various aspects of sex work illegal until it was all illegal. The Immoral Traffic (Submission) Act was reauthorized in 1986 to The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, which added more restriction on prostitution and little to human trafficking (6). In 1983 the Emigration Act was enacted to consolidate and amend the law related to emigration of Indian citizens, applied only to ‘recruitment’ and “recruitment agents.’ Sexual exploitation, kidnapping, slavery and forced labor are all covered under the Indian Penal Code, which is the main criminal code in