Looking at Angelique Patterson today, you would never guess that her run-ins with sexual violence started at the very young age of five. After being sexually abused, Patterson started down a ‘dark path’ that made her begin cutting herself at the age of seven, and by age eleven, she had begun abusing drugs and alcohol. Her parents, fearing for her life, found Patterson a treatment center in Florida. So, they sent her on a flight to Florida. However, instead of...
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Human trafficking is one of the most severe forms of human rights violation against men, women, and children. It is a market fueled by supply and demand forces. Poverty, corruption, and illiteracy are all baits for trafficking. Forced labor, commercial sexual exploitation, and domestic servitude are the main reasons for the annual trafficking of millions of people worldwide. Asian nations especially India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan have high levels of poverty that traffickers use to lure desperate citizens. Pedophilia is another...
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In the book 'Sex Trafficking Inside the Business of Modern Slavery' there are a lot of breakdowns and concepts explaining what sex trafficking and other trafficking are and what comes along with posing some ethical issues and problems dealing with trafficking. In the opening of the book, there is a nineteen-year-old girl by the name of Maya Gaunt who was a sex slave four years in two main red-light districts, Kamathipura and Falkland Road. Maya was born in the Sindhupalchok...
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The world as we know it is drowning in hardships and failures. Everywhere one turns, an image of the impending danger of global warming, mass economic failure, riots, genocides, AIDS, cancer, financial disaster, and poverty haunts their view. The race against these issues, that plague our future, has us working day and night to find solutions, with the knowledge of people from every profession, before we are completely submerged in a sea of destruction. Another issue must be addressed among...
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International lands typically conjure up when one's mind comes to the thoughts of human sex trafficking. That kind of horrible conduct is not unique in the United States of America. America is the land of the free and yet something as horrific as human sex trafficking takes place every day in our own backyard. According to the Homeland Security Department, the definition of trafficking in human beings is 'modern-day slavery involving the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain...
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What does sex trafficking mean to you? Is your definition of sex trafficking the same as mine or the person sitting next to you? The answer is yes, but how we think and define it is completely different for the each of us. Sex trafficking is when women, men, and children are made into slaves who are at times kidnapped, sold, and forcefully involved in sex acts. Sex trafficking doesn’t only happen to minors but can happen to adults as...
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Human Trafficking has been a predominant issue the world as a whole has fought for the past decade. Human trafficking is a broad term for a multitude of different sub-categories. These sub-categories are broken down into Sex-trafficking, Labor-trafficking, and commercial sexual exploitation. The majority of human trafficking that takes place is for the purpose of o abor and slavery. The majority of this occurs in third world, or underdeveloped countries that feed the United States with product as part of...
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In “Exploitation creep and the unmaking of Human Trafficking Law by Janie A. Chuang, the author main claim is how migration has been a social and economic mobility strategy which has led to a profitable business all over the world. Human trafficking and different ways of exploitation that involve forced marriage and labor under the name modern slavery are considered to affect a significant number of people globally. “Human trafficking can be considered to be a multi-dimensional human rights violation...
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Introduction Over the last 10 years, human trafficking has been established as one of the major criminal justice problems around the globe (Nelson 2015). In short, human trafficking is a system of modernized slavery where people forcefully trade human beings illegally for the intention of sexual manipulation and forced labour (PDCA 2017). In term of size and profit, human trafficking is often acknowledged as one of the top three biggest criminal industry around the world, along with drug and weapon...
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The beginning of the twentieth century saw with it a rise in the attention of policymakers around the world to combat human trafficking as a means of protecting human rights and dignity. The United Nations has agreed upon a definition of trafficking in persons which includes the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power...
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There are myriad circumstances and actors at play in perpetuating the heinous commodification of human beings through human trafficking. Despite the grimness of that reality, hopefully in understanding the diversity of those circumstances, it will be possible to create more effective, adaptive and tailored responses to curtail its prevalence. Human trafficking and smuggling often follow an already existing flow of human movement, so it is critical to address the factors that draw people away from some areas and toward others....
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Human trafficking today is considered modern-day slavery. Victims of human trafficking are coerced, assaulted, and lied to have commercial sex. This year, I have noticed that human trafficking has become more prevalent in the media but I’ve also noticed that not much has been done about it. In Spears’ essay, she discusses how much human trafficking impacts the U.S. and states, “the current estimate is that 18,000 to 20,000 people are trafficked into the US annually” (Spears, 2006) but these...
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