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    There has been racism since America can remember and it all started in the 1800's back when white people had colored people as slaves. Racism back in the 1900's it was hard for colored people to get well paid jobs and most of all in the 1960's colored people would be born in Jim crow hospitals for parents who lived in a ghetto, the children going toJim crow schools where theyprobablydon't have the enough education to go tocollage, and even the churches had to besegregated because if they don't…

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    hotels, casinos, truck stops and other locations known to be frequented by pimps and prostitutes in Atlanta, Denver, Knoxville, Alexandria, Jackson, Los Angels, Portland, Sacramento and Seattle. As a result of their efforts, 149 underage victims of prostitution were rescued and more that 150 pimps and other offenders were arrested. In an effort to assist the victims, the majority of whom were 15-17 year olds, there were 100 FBI victim specialists on-hand to provide them with crisis intervention,…

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    According to Tribtalk, a new Law has been passed by the US Senate to bring justice to victims of Human Trafficking and Sex Trafficking. This huge industry that endangers human life in our society had grown so rapidly this recent year. Evident also points out that in Texas alone, there are about 313,000 individual’s of human trafficking and roughly 79,000 minors and youth are prey on in sex trafficking. The communities should join forces with the Law enforcement and Agencies to help victims heal…

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    Evelyn Chumbow makes her case that human trafficking is still around and it's bigger than ever. Evelyn was a victim of labor trafficking for 9 years in the United States, where she was abused and forced to serve as a slave (Chumbow). The US just had a National Slavery and human trafficking prevention month with many surveys. Evelyn was very shocked to see that there are very few amount of people who are aware that human trafficking exists to this day. She explains that we need to make an effort…

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    So I go to Starbucks pretty regularly, I can be a bit of a coffee addict. They have Fairtrade coffee and I figure that if coffee is my only vice, that’s not so bad and everyone’s happy. My significant other is the director of a drug treatment center, and we volunteer at End Slavery Cincinnati so trafficking is something I’m a bit familiar with. Human Trafficking is just a modern way to say Slavery, maybe it sits better on the tongue of some. It happens in every country, in every city and…

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    Sex Trafficking Sociology

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    Kids, primarily girls can either be taken from their homes or given up by their families either for money or because they think that they will have a better life in the sex industry. “The reality of child sex trafficking, however, is more disturbing than any fiction Dickens could portray. Not only are these children treated as commodities, but the traffickers trade these children to be assaulted by adults, often condemning them to an unending cycle of sexual abuse, violence, and trauma.” (Leary,…

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    Being sexually abused as a child can pave the way for victims to enter prostitution. With immense vulnerabilities, child sex workers can endanger themselves to physical, verbal violence and sexual assaults from pimps or customers. Furthermore, they are usually defenseless in negotiating the use of condom during intercourses (Willis and Levy 2002). Thus, not only are child sex workers at risk for infectious transmittable diseases such as STD, HIV, uterine infection but also is their community.…

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    It has been estimated that over twenty-one million victims of human trafficking are trapped worldwide. People usually associate human trafficking with sexual exploitation, but they may forget that it is also utilized in the business world. In fact, out of the estimated twenty-one million victims, fourteen million are of labor exploitation (“Eliminating Human Trafficking from the Global Business Landscape”) . Unfortunately, this leads to a dilemma for companies that may work with other…

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    Another reason why spreading awareness about human trafficking in India is so crucial, is that it will lower the criminal enterprise. Human tracking is the fastest-growing crime in the world. In an article, it says, “the International Labor Organization estimates that trafficking is now a $150 billion industry” (Anderson). This quote explains just how impactful human trafficking has become to our society. Studies show that most victims are from foreign countries because they are vulnerable in…

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    Human Trafficking is defined as “the recruitment, transfer, or harboring of persons through the use or threat of force, coercion, or deception, for the purpose of exploitation and forced labor” (Yen Koh “Human Trafficking: Overview” 2). A solution to this international issue is convoluted and difficult. While many individuals claim that creating more criminalizing legislation and allotting more resources to law enforcement may curb the impact of human trafficking, a more valuable and…

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