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We believe everyone, everywhere has the right to a life free from slavery. But right now, millions of children and adults are trapped in slavery in every single country in the world. Including yours.
Modern slavery is the severe exploitation of other people for personal or commercial gain. Modern slavery is all around us, but often just out of sight. People can become entrapped making our clothes, serving our food, picking our crops, working in factories, or working in houses as cooks, cleaners or nannies.
From the outside, it can look like a normal job. But people are being controlled – they can face violence or threats, be forced into inescapable debt, or have had their passport taken away and are being threatened with deportation. Many have fallen into this oppressive trap simply because they were trying to escape poverty or insecurity, improve their lives and support their families. Now, they can’t leave
2)Forms of modern slavery
Modern slavery takes many forms. The most common are:
Human trafficking. The use of violence, threats or coercion to transport, recruit or harbour people in order to exploit them for purposes such as forced prostitution, labour, criminality, marriage or organ removal.
Forced labour. Any work or services people are forced to do against their will under threat of punishment.
Debt bondage/bonded labour. The world’s most widespread form of slavery. People trapped in poverty borrow money and are forced to work to pay off the debt, losing control over both their employment conditions and the debt.
Descent–based slavery. Most traditional form, where people are treated as property, and their “slave” status was passed down the maternal line.
Slavery of children. When a child is exploited for someone else’s gain. This can include child trafficking, child soldiers, child marriage and child domestic slavery.
Forced and early marriage. When someone is married against their will and cannot leave. Most child marriages can be considered slavery.
People end up trapped in modern slavery because they are vulnerable to being tricked, trapped and exploited, often as a result of poverty and exclusion. It is these external circumstances that push people into taking risky decisions in search of opportunities to provide for their families, or are simply pushed into jobs in exploitative conditions.
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English
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Assignment #4
"An ounce of cocaine wholesale: $1,200. But you can only sell it once. A woman or child: $50 to $1,000. But you can sell them each day, every day, over and over again. The markup is immeasurable." This quote taken from the movie “Human Trafficking” helps to explain the horrifying reality of what truly is going on in the world right under our noses each and every day. Human trafficking is a broad term used to describe modern day slavery. It can be the trade of humans for sexual slavery, forced labor, or for the extraction of organs. Human trafficking has been around for centuries but it is not just a thing of the past, but also a growing problem for our present and our future. With the enormous revenue made by traffickers the market for human slaves is consistently growing and it almost seems impossible to stop this illegal activity. Human trafficking not only affects individual victims but also challenges the security of a nation and prohibits people from enjoying their natural rights as a human being. Most people believe that human trafficking only happens in foreign or poor countries but that is not the case. Even here in the United States, a land built upon freedom, slavery is still very much alive.
John Diamandis
Human Trafficking and The Lack of Awareness People Have in Our Society.
Introduction
I. Attention-getter: Many of you may be familiar with the film “Taken”, if not, it is about a young girl who is abducted by human traffickers for sexual slavery while she is in France.
II. Thesis statement: Most of you probably think that Human Trafficking only occurs in foreign or poor countries but in reality it is a growing problem here in the United States. Since this is happening, I want to talk about the public discourse of Human Trafficking.
III. Essay: In my essay I will explain what human trafficking is, the discourse from victims and law enforcements, the efforts to make the public more aware and the Polaris Project.
A. Human Trafficking and A Survivor’s Story.
B. The Efforts made to Spread Awareness.
C. Polaris Project – Stories and what it is
[Transition to Body: First off, Human Trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, or a modern-day form of slavery. It occurs in other ways than just sexual exploitation including forced labor and human organ trafficking.]
Body
I. First main point: In the United States people are very fortunate to not have to worry about human trafficking everyday. However, people should give it a little more thought than they do.
A. Sub-point#1: According to an article written by an American survivor on stophumantraffickingny.com. Dai grew up and lived in America for 21 years and was just one of many who was forced into sexual slavery. Dai was in a relationship with a military man who abused her before she was taken into sexual slavery. Dai escaped her abuser only to be approached by a female pimp who offered her comfort and food. Unknowingly Dai acc ...
We believe everyone, everywhere has the right to a life free from slavery. But right now, millions of children and adults are trapped in slavery in every single country in the world. Including yours.
Modern slavery is the severe exploitation of other people for personal or commercial gain. Modern slavery is all around us, but often just out of sight. People can become entrapped making our clothes, serving our food, picking our crops, working in factories, or working in houses as cooks, cleaners or nannies.
From the outside, it can look like a normal job. But people are being controlled – they can face violence or threats, be forced into inescapable debt, or have had their passport taken away and are being threatened with deportation. Many have fallen into this oppressive trap simply because they were trying to escape poverty or insecurity, improve their lives and support their families. Now, they can’t leave
2)Forms of modern slavery
Modern slavery takes many forms. The most common are:
Human trafficking. The use of violence, threats or coercion to transport, recruit or harbour people in order to exploit them for purposes such as forced prostitution, labour, criminality, marriage or organ removal.
Forced labour. Any work or services people are forced to do against their will under threat of punishment.
Debt bondage/bonded labour. The world’s most widespread form of slavery. People trapped in poverty borrow money and are forced to work to pay off the debt, losing control over both their employment conditions and the debt.
Descent–based slavery. Most traditional form, where people are treated as property, and their “slave” status was passed down the maternal line.
Slavery of children. When a child is exploited for someone else’s gain. This can include child trafficking, child soldiers, child marriage and child domestic slavery.
Forced and early marriage. When someone is married against their will and cannot leave. Most child marriages can be considered slavery.
People end up trapped in modern slavery because they are vulnerable to being tricked, trapped and exploited, often as a result of poverty and exclusion. It is these external circumstances that push people into taking risky decisions in search of opportunities to provide for their families, or are simply pushed into jobs in exploitative conditions.
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John Diamandis
English
Intro
Assignment #4
"An ounce of cocaine wholesale: $1,200. But you can only sell it once. A woman or child: $50 to $1,000. But you can sell them each day, every day, over and over again. The markup is immeasurable." This quote taken from the movie “Human Trafficking” helps to explain the horrifying reality of what truly is going on in the world right under our noses each and every day. Human trafficking is a broad term used to describe modern day slavery. It can be the trade of humans for sexual slavery, forced labor, or for the extraction of organs. Human trafficking has been around for centuries but it is not just a thing of the past, but also a growing problem for our present and our future. With the enormous revenue made by traffickers the market for human slaves is consistently growing and it almost seems impossible to stop this illegal activity. Human trafficking not only affects individual victims but also challenges the security of a nation and prohibits people from enjoying their natural rights as a human being. Most people believe that human trafficking only happens in foreign or poor countries but that is not the case. Even here in the United States, a land built upon freedom, slavery is still very much alive.
John Diamandis
Human Trafficking and The Lack of Awareness People Have in Our Society.
Introduction
I. Attention-getter: Many of you may be familiar with the film “Taken”, if not, it is about a young girl who is abducted by human traffickers for sexual slavery while she is in France.
II. Thesis statement: Most of you probably think that Human Trafficking only occurs in foreign or poor countries but in reality it is a growing problem here in the United States. Since this is happening, I want to talk about the public discourse of Human Trafficking.
III. Essay: In my essay I will explain what human trafficking is, the discourse from victims and law enforcements, the efforts to make the public more aware and the Polaris Project.
A. Human Trafficking and A Survivor’s Story.
B. The Efforts made to Spread Awareness.
C. Polaris Project – Stories and what it is
[Transition to Body: First off, Human Trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, or a modern-day form of slavery. It occurs in other ways than just sexual exploitation including forced labor and human organ trafficking.]
Body
I. First main point: In the United States people are very fortunate to not have to worry about human trafficking everyday. However, people should give it a little more thought than they do.
A. Sub-point#1: According to an article written by an American survivor on stophumantraffickingny.com. Dai grew up and lived in America for 21 years and was just one of many who was forced into sexual slavery. Dai was in a relationship with a military man who abused her before she was taken into sexual slavery. Dai escaped her abuser only to be approached by a female pimp who offered her comfort and food. Unknowingly Dai acc ...
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1. Human Trafficking: Is the issue of modern-
day slavery being addressed?
by Christina Bontioti
Sunday, 19 January 2014
The first time I heard of human traffickingwas in high-school, when my History teacher
inviteda representative fromThe NOproject to come speak at our school. Attempting to
broaden my horizons, I decidedto attend the talk and entered, completely unsuspecting of
the harsh reality I was about to be facedwithin. As cliché as it may sound, I cannot remember
very muchfrom the hour I spent in that room, except for the number '29 million' and the gut-
wrenching feeling I went home with that day.
Human trafficking. Two wordsthat have come to mean so much to me since that day; Two
words that represent a phenomenon I have vowedto help eradicate.
But this all doesn't mean very muchunless the factsand figures are presented, so here they
are: Today, there are over 29 million people being transported, sold and bought, by means of
threats or the use of force, for the purpose of exploitation. This exploitationmay be sexual,
for forcedlabour or for the harvesting of organs. The victimsof this are to a large extent
women and children, comprising about 90% of all victims. Human traffickingis the fastest
growing formof international crime and is now the secondlargest illegal trade in the world.
'There are more slaves today worldwide than there have been at any other point
in history'
A fact that not many people know, as most of us associate slavery with pre-19thcentury
history. Yet unfortunately thisclandestine, black market for human beings is only being
aided by this ignorance. Although once youchoose to become aware of this phenomenon
there is an abundance of information to be accessedand variousorganizations to work with,
it still remains a choice. I had to choose to go to the talk at my schoolrather than be taught in
class that slavery is in fact not over and that it is more alive than ever. Andas a person who
wants to raise awareness, I think this is a huge problem. That the average personis probably
unaware of the amplitude of human traffickingmeans that there is little pressure from below
to change policiesand legislation. With human traffickingbeing so intertwined with the
illegal trade of arms and drugs it is even harder, and therefore evenmore important, to
address this problemhead on. Countriessuch as Sweden and Greece have legalised
prostitutionpartly in hopes of reducing exploitationand shedding light on the situation. As
with most taboo subjects (prostitution, drug use, the list goes on) making them illegal mostly
succeedsin drivingthe market underground and punishing the wrong people. By legalising
them, Governmentshope to regulate the markets and protect more individuals (admittedly
2. also making a profit). However, the key seems to be shifting the blame, the shame and the
penalisation from the supply-side to the demand-side, as that is the one that drivesthe entire
market.
The sword is indeed double-edged and the solutionis not easy to find. Nonetheless, the
countlessorganisations whose very aimit is to fight against human traffickingaside, there
have been some effortsrecently that need to be especially acknowledged. Dutch charity Terre
des Hommes createda fake profile of a simulated girl named Sweetie to attract predatorsand
then give their names and locations to the police. In the US, the Contra Costa County officials
have made effortsto fight human traffickingtheir priority. By raising awareness in whatever
ways we can, I believe it is each of us who can help this list to continue to grow and the
number of victimsbegin to reduce dramatically.
For more information, please search for the following organisations: Love146, The NO
Project, Somaly Mam Foundation, The A21 Campaign, International Justice Mission,
UNHCR/UNODC.
IMAGE SOURCES
The title image for this article was sourcedfrom the International PoliticalForum website
and the article image was sourcedfromthe website dreamcenter.org.