T (Rallying Efforts Against Contemporary Trafficking) group hosted a panel on trafficking called Breaking the Chains: A Panel on Human Trafficking. For a compelling hour and a half the four speakers (Eileen Campbell, Jasmine Marino, Stephanie Clark, and Sarah Durfey) gripped the audience with true tales of the contemporary slave trade both in the U.S and abroad; while dispelling rumors and myths associated with human trafficking today. Human trafficking is nothing like what we see portrayed in…
Barbara Glickstein (2014) wrote a wonderful article titled “Human Trafficking: The Need for Nursing Advocacy.” Glickstein begins her article with a description of human trafficking, effectively describing it as a travesty of global proportion. Labeling trafficking as a disease, she explains how, like any other disease, it is important to educate the public to prevent and slow its progression. Glickstein describes how trafficking is a form of violence that causes physical and psychological…
Introduction Human trafficking is currently one of the worst abuse of human rights in today’s world, and it’s one of the biggest issues in international relations. Human trafficking can include being a sex slave or having to work hours on end without any compensation. It is estimated that up to a million women are trafficked each year. Even though there have been effort to stop human trafficking in Thailand, there are still many factors that promote the trafficking. Thailand is also still being…
A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN THE VAAL TRIANGLE. Introduction “It ought to concern every person, because it’s a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at the social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be…
known as human trafficking. Human trafficking is the coercion of human beings for the purpose of forced labor, sexual exploitation or both and is a worldwide problem.1 What is human trafficking? The U.S. State Department categorizes human trafficking under two major classes, sex trafficking and involuntary servitude. Involuntary servitude is defined as the impressment of persons for labor services, most of who are harbored in confining conditions or as actual slaves. Sex trafficking is…
In human trafficking today, people are being defined as property rather than human beings. They are being ordained by their “owners” to do whatever is their will with no regard for what the victim wants. Majority of human trafficking is dealt with sexual exploitation. Take the movie ‘Taken’ for example. In the movie, a teenage girl goes off to Paris with a friend for vacation. Shortly after, her and her friend get abducted by sex slavers and plan to sell them into sexual slavery. With this movie…
for help. In Mexico’s society human trafficking has been a big deal for a long time and it needs to be brought to everyone’s attention, so there can be a permanent solution. Human trafficking is known as today’s version of slavery. The purpose of this paper is to inform everyone of what human trafficking is, what the major problems that we face with it are, survivor stories and also a possible solutions for human trafficking. What is human trafficking? Human trafficking is where people are…
Human trafficking, the second biggest crime on the planet, also known as modern-day slavery is a major issue in the world today. Many people believe that slavery ended long ago, but it still occurs today. More than two people are forced into trafficking during every minute of every day. Human trafficking is an unimaginable crime that occurs all around the world. It needs to come to an end because of the way it has damaged the lives of its victims and has scarred them for life. As the Ark of Hope…
should, or whether it should not become a law. One proposition that was on the ballot in 2012 was proposition 35- Human Trafficking Penalties Initiative Statute. Human trafficking is well defined as labor trafficking, and sex trafficking where the victim has no say in this, and is exploited. Human Trafficking happens everywhere in the world, and although they are trying to stop Human Trafficking people believe that they should implement stronger rule, and punishments for these people who are…
Human trafficking of juveniles in Europe Human Trafficking has been a discreet worldwide issue where most have not taken a resolve. Most of the cases of Human Trafficking are about sexual exploitation due to prostitution and labor concerns. I don’t know much about the details of this problem and what goes on or how bad it is, but I have heard of it. I guess I always thought of it as an isolated thing because it wasn’t in the news all the time, but perhaps it is worse than that? I…