A presentation by a sex worker and undocumented immigrant. Includes citations and should work int the presentations. Email me if certain parts are not working! gildamerlot@fastmail.com
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Sex Trafficking Power Point presentation. You should view this if your interested in what is really going on. Children are prostituted everyday. Many are tortured and beaten and raped repeatedly. Victims of sexual abuse and human trafficking.
The following presentation discusses the issue of what sex trafficking is. Who does it effect? Then, the presentation talks about the Internet and how sex trafficking has now moved from the streets to the net. We are focusing on Craigslist because this is one of the main domestic sites used to for all types of trafficking. We will touch on the Craigslist Killer and how the victim trafficked herself sexually. As well, we are focusing on what you can do to prevent and stop sex trafficking on the net.
Sex Trafficking Power Point presentation. You should view this if your interested in what is really going on. Children are prostituted everyday. Many are tortured and beaten and raped repeatedly. Victims of sexual abuse and human trafficking.
The following presentation discusses the issue of what sex trafficking is. Who does it effect? Then, the presentation talks about the Internet and how sex trafficking has now moved from the streets to the net. We are focusing on Craigslist because this is one of the main domestic sites used to for all types of trafficking. We will touch on the Craigslist Killer and how the victim trafficked herself sexually. As well, we are focusing on what you can do to prevent and stop sex trafficking on the net.
Hate crime (also known as a bias-motivated crime or bias crime)[1] is a prejudice-motivated crime which occurs when a perpetrator targets a victim because of their membership (or perceived membership) of a certain social group or racial demographic.
Examples of such groups can include, and are almost exclusively limited to ethnicity, disability, language, nationality, physical appearance, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation.[2][3][4] Non-criminal actions that are motivated by these reasons are often called "bias incidents".
"Hate crime" generally refers to criminal acts which are seen to have been motivated by bias against one or more of the social groups listed above, or by bias against their derivatives. Incidents may involve physical assault, homicide, damage to property, bullying, harassment, verbal abuse (which includes slurs) or insults, mate crime or offensive graffiti or letters (hate mail).[5]
A hate crime law is a law intended to deter bias-motivated violence.[6] Hate crime laws are distinct from laws against hate speech: hate crime laws enhance the penalties associated with conduct which is already criminal under other laws, while hate speech laws criminalize a category of speech.
This ppt will help u in understanding hate crimes
Human trafficking specifically focusing on sex trafficking in Australia. A research base presentation conducted in November 2010 to highlight the issues and raise limitations. Provide useful resources, reference and how to's.
Human Trafficking @CanStopCrime It's Happening Here Don't Close Your Eyes Scott Mills
Canadian Crime Stoppers Association presentation on Human Trafficking "It's Happening Here, Don't Close Your Eyes" | For the French version, as well as a version of this presentation to music on a DVD please contact Ralph Page, President of Canadian Crime Stoppers Association | rpage@kmts.ca
Hate crime (also known as a bias-motivated crime or bias crime)[1] is a prejudice-motivated crime which occurs when a perpetrator targets a victim because of their membership (or perceived membership) of a certain social group or racial demographic.
Examples of such groups can include, and are almost exclusively limited to ethnicity, disability, language, nationality, physical appearance, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation.[2][3][4] Non-criminal actions that are motivated by these reasons are often called "bias incidents".
"Hate crime" generally refers to criminal acts which are seen to have been motivated by bias against one or more of the social groups listed above, or by bias against their derivatives. Incidents may involve physical assault, homicide, damage to property, bullying, harassment, verbal abuse (which includes slurs) or insults, mate crime or offensive graffiti or letters (hate mail).[5]
A hate crime law is a law intended to deter bias-motivated violence.[6] Hate crime laws are distinct from laws against hate speech: hate crime laws enhance the penalties associated with conduct which is already criminal under other laws, while hate speech laws criminalize a category of speech.
This ppt will help u in understanding hate crimes
Human trafficking specifically focusing on sex trafficking in Australia. A research base presentation conducted in November 2010 to highlight the issues and raise limitations. Provide useful resources, reference and how to's.
Human Trafficking @CanStopCrime It's Happening Here Don't Close Your Eyes Scott Mills
Canadian Crime Stoppers Association presentation on Human Trafficking "It's Happening Here, Don't Close Your Eyes" | For the French version, as well as a version of this presentation to music on a DVD please contact Ralph Page, President of Canadian Crime Stoppers Association | rpage@kmts.ca
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H uman trafficking, also known as trafficking in persons or modern-day slavery, is a crime that involves the exploitation of a person for the purpose of compelled labor or a commercial sex act. While the U.S.
Department of Justice (DOJ) has long enforced criminal laws against involun-
tary servitude and slavery, the enactment of the Trafficking Victims Protection
Act (TVPA) of 2000 brought new benefits, services, and criminal penalties to
address human trafficking in a more comprehensive and effective way.
What Is Human
Trafficking?
The TVPA defines a “severe form of trafficking
in persons” as—
• Sex trafficking (the recruitment,
harboring, transportation, provision,
obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a
person for the purpose of a commercial
sex act) in which a commercial sex act is
induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in
which the person induced to perform such
act has not attained 18 years of age; or
• The recruitment, harboring, transportation,
provision, or obtaining of a person for labor
or services, through the use of force, fraud,
or coercion for the purpose of subjection
to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt
bondage, or slavery.
Who Are the
Victims of Human
Trafficking?
Anyone who is compelled (through force, fraud,
or coercion) to perform any kind of work or
commercial sex act by another person, and
any minor engaged in a commercial sex act, is
a human trafficking victim. Victims of human
trafficking come from all walks of life and are
entrapped in many different settings. Anyone
can be a victim, regardless of their race, color,
national origin, disability, religion, age, gender,
sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeco-
nomic status, or citizenship status. While there
is no defining characteristic that all victims
share, traffickers frequently prey on individuals
who are poor, vulnerable, living in an unsafe
situation, or are in search of a better life. These
victims are deceived by false promises of love,
a good job, or a stable life and are lured into
situations where they are forced to work under
deplorable conditions with little to no pay.
Whether made to work in agriculture, a factory,
or a strip club, forced into commercial sex,
or abused in a home as a domestic servant,
federal law recognizes these individuals as
victims of human trafficking.
Who Are the
Traffickers and
How Do They Trap
Victims?
Traffickers are similarly diverse. There are
traffickers working alone to deceive and prey on
victims; businesses that enslave their workers;
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families who have been in the business of human trafficking
for generations or have just begun exp.
Against Criminalization: Beyond "Legalization" vs. "Decriminalization"EmiKo Yama
From Desiree Alliance 2013 Program Description:
Supporters of sex workers' rights movement often emphasize how the illegal status of prostitution contributes to harm to sex workers, and how legalizing or decriminalizing prostitution might make it safer. But those of us who are street-based, immigrant, transgender, underage, people of color, etc. know that the law against prostitution plays only a small part in our experience of pervasive surveillance and criminalization in our lives. It is not that we are targeted and criminalized because prostitution is against the law; the prostitution became illegal because we are already targeted and criminalized.
This workshop explores a possibility for an anti-criminalization movement, which goes beyond legalization or decriminalization of sex work and addresses social and economic justice more broadly in the face of pervasive state violence, whether they take the form of Prison Industrial Complex or anti-trafficking "rescues." Our discussion will build on the work of women and queer people of color with histories in the sex trade, and how they have successfully built coalition with radical women of color activists outside of the sex workers' rights movement, for example during the campaign against Prop. 35 in California.
This powerpoint presentation offers an overview of the Human Trafficking problem and how medical professionals can intervene and become actively engaged.
The issues affecting victims and their families of child trade. The process a victim goes through when seeking compensation and factors that may prevent individuals from reporting the crime. The primary myths associated with child sex trade.
role of women and girls in various terror groupssadiakorobi2
Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
Welcome to the new Mizzima Weekly !
Mizzima Media Group is pleased to announce the relaunch of Mizzima Weekly. Mizzima is dedicated to helping our readers and viewers keep up to date on the latest developments in Myanmar and related to Myanmar by offering analysis and insight into the subjects that matter. Our websites and our social media channels provide readers and viewers with up-to-the-minute and up-to-date news, which we don’t necessarily need to replicate in our Mizzima Weekly magazine. But where we see a gap is in providing more analysis, insight and in-depth coverage of Myanmar, that is of particular interest to a range of readers.
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
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2. General NY Laws around Prostitution
New York has laws against both buying and selling sex.
• Prostitution: (Sex Work) Class B misdemeanor
• up to 3 months in jail and/or a fine of up to $500
• Patronizing prostitution: (Customer/”John”) Class A misdemeanor
• up to 1 yr in jail and/or a fine of up to $1,000
• Permitting Prostitution: Class B misdemeanor
• up to 3 mos. in jail and/or up to $500 fine
• Promoting Prostitution: (Management/“Pimping”) Class A misdemeanor
• up to 1 yr. in prison and/or up to $1,000 fine
ANY CRIMINAL CHARGES PUTS IMMIGRANTS (BOTH LEGAL OR NOT) AT RISK FOR
DETENTION, AND DEPORTATION
CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST PEOPLE LEADS TO ASSET FORFEITURES, JOB LOSS, LOSS
OF HOUSING, LOSING CUSTODY OF CHILDREN, STIGMA & DISCRIMINATION, A
CRIMINAL RECORD & PUBLIC SHAME
3. Reality of Policing
• 2017 FBI reported 545 cases of human trafficking in the U.S.; 467 were in the
sex industry
• # of Cases in NY in 2017 = 0, 2016 = unknown, 2015 = 0, 2014 = unknown
• 2017 FBI reported 28,490 arrests for prostitution; 11,124 men & 17,366
women.
• 18,542 for vagrancy (homelessness), 23,699 for Curfew and loitering law violations,
289,608 for Drunkenness, 1,275,812 for Drug violations
• 2017 reported 185 young adults arrested for prostitution, 56,569 drug
violations, 21,958 curfew and loitering
• 2017 USCIS reported 672 approved human trafficking visas 4 year conditional
work authorization similar to TPS/DACA
• 2017 ICE (ERO) 143,470 arrests, and 226,119 deportations
• 1,572 for “Commercialized Sexual Offenses”/Prostitution
4. Penal Welfare and the New Human Trafficking
Intervention Courts Report
In 2013, New York State’s Chief Judge, Jonathan Lippman
• announced a “revolutionary” statewide initiative
• Human Trafficking Intervention Courts (HTICs)
• consensus that prostitution is human trafficking
• HTICs are criminal diversion courts where mostly female defendants are prosecuted for prostitution offenses but
offered mandated services in lieu of criminal conviction and jail.
• Why have so many commentators heralded them as the model approach to prostitution/trafficking when they
involve the arrest, prosecution, and even incarceration of prostitution defendants, who are presumed to be victims?
• phenomenon called“penal welfare,” that is, states’ growing practice of using criminal courts to provide social
services and benefits. In an era in which “mass incarceration” is a familiar term and tough-on-crime and broken
windows ideologies are falling into disfavor, penal welfare enables entrenched institutions of criminal law to
continue to function despite a growing crisis in public confidence.
• Ultimately, the HTICs maintain the illusion that criminal management of individuals, including prostitution defendants, is
the answer to social dysfunction.
• HTICs, like criminal court interventions generally… [fail to address] root causes of prostitution crimes.
• Solution: Wider array of benefits—housing, employment, financial subsidies, childcare, healthcare
Report goes into conflation between human trafficking, prostitution, and domestic violence
ICE GOES TO THESE COURTS TO ARREST PEOPLE…BECAUSE IT’S STILL CRIMINAL COURT, EVERYONE THERE IS BEING
CHARGED WITH PROSTITUTION WHICH IS A CRIME. ICE DEPORTS “CRIMINALS”
5. The Tragic Death of Layleen Polcano
• The 27-year-old Afro-Latina transgender woman was found dead in solitary
confinement in Rikers Island Jail.
• The arrest was the result of an NYPD sting investigation after Polanco allegedly
agreed to perform oral sex on an undercover officer in exchange for money. & a
low level drug charge.
• Polanco was required to appear in Manhattan’s Human trafficking Intervention
Court to receive counseling services, an alternative to jail time that is often
presented by judges to those arrested on prostitution charges.
• she failed to appear on more than one occasion, leading to a warrant for her arrest.
• Although she would have been released from Rikers, she was reportedly held in
jail because she had failed to complete the court-ordered diversion program and
could not pay the $500 bail.
• “Reform” killed Layleen Polcano
• The “diversion court”/Manhatten “human trafficking court” is still criminalization
6. The United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC)
[AKA the Palermo Convention] is a 2000
United Nations-sponsored multi state
treaty against transnational “organized
crime”
The convention was the first international
convention to fight transnational
organized crime, trafficking of human
beings, and terrorism.
3 supplementary protocols (the Palermo
Protocols)
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is responsible for implementing
the protocol. Helps states with drafting laws, creating national anti-trafficking strategies,
and resources to implement them. In March 2009, UNODC launched the Blue Heart
Campaign
The Protocol to Prevent,
Suppress and Punish Trafficking
in Persons, Especially Women
and Children (AKA the
Trafficking Protocol or UN TIP
Protocol)
The Blue Campaign is the “unified
voice” of the Department of
Homeland Security. Working in
collaboration with police,
government, non gov., private
orgs. They create ads, launch or
work with media, federal, state
and local campaigns.
Example:
https://www.ihtinstitute.org/plan/
https://www.ihtinstitute.org/wp-
content/uploads/2019/05/CCHR_IHTI_
StrategicPlan_06062018.pdf
Pg. 10, 16, 19, 22, 23, 29, 32, 34, 38,
40, 41, 42, 43, 47
The Protocol against the
Smuggling of Migrants by Land,
Sea and Air (AKA the Smuggling
Protocol)
DHS (mostly ICE and Border
Patrol ) Conflate smuggling and
human trafficking to look like
heroes. They criminalize
humanitarian aid
“Prevention Through Deterrence
Policy”
Anti Trafficking Movement from
UN Press Pg.11
Example:
https://www.gildamerlot.com/blog/2019/
7/23/6-case-studies-on-sex-worksex-
trafficking
Personal testimony
The Protocol against
the Illicit
Manufacturing and
Trafficking in
Firearms, Their Parts
and Components and
Ammunition (AKA the
Firearms Protocol)
7. What is Human Trafficking?
Originally created to address the extreme
exploitation of migrants in the age of
Globalization.
Nicola Mai a professor of sociology and migration
points out the flaws in the UN definition:
1. Without a “neutral” understanding of what
constitutes coercion & exploitation in the sex
industry, it allows for more arbitrary discretion
which equals anti-immigrant & anti-prostitution
interventions & policy [O’Connell Davidson 2005,
73]
2. The victim’s consent to being exploited is
considered irrelevant, which creates more
arbitrariness by which migrants, & nonmigrant sex
workers are targeted by sexual humanitarian
interventions & policy
The rights & livihoods of sex workers & migrants are
viewed as expendable “collateral damage” in the fight
against organized crime. Making them more socially
and economically vulnerable.
[Various entities] systemically miss their targets &
exacerbates people’s vulnerabilities – as drones have
systemically failed to spot the difference between
civilians & fighters in Afghanistan & Iraq. [Bernstein
2010
8. Double Speak
Unaccompanied Child Migrant [Unaccompanied Alien Children]
• We are almost NEVER alone!
• It erases our families, our community, our parents
• It justifies our separation, detention (sometimes indefinitely), and sometimes putting us through
adoption
• Our smugglers, parents, families and by extension WE, are treated like traffickers
• Dreamers came “through no fault of their own” under the age of 16 when they came, they are
criminalized and denied citizenship for the rest of their lives.
Juveniles is often used interchangeably
with teens
It’s from the Criminal Justice System
Juvenile delinquency, also known "juvenile
offending", is the act of participating in
unlawful behavior as minors (under 18),
depending on the crime, they can be tried as
adults.
9. On Charlie Kirk’s Facebook Page, this is his pinned tweet.
Ring Wing groups fund TurningPoint USA, DHS gets their
information on trafficking from unreliable sources, and
from hate groups like FAIR, CIS, and NumbersUSA that
seeks to eliminate the 14th amendment, and cut ALL
immigration by 70%. They want ethnic cleansing.
10. From Pseudoscience to Protoscience: Estimating
Human Trafficking and Modern Forms of Slavery
Hidden population refers to a
group of people for which
membership is socially
stigmatized or constitutes a
crime. Due to its hidden
nature, the creation of an
accurate sampling frame,
which is used when it is not
feasible to count everyone, is
not possible. Pg.3
11. Use and Misuse of Research in Books on Sex
Trafficking: Implications for Interdisciplinary
Researchers, Practitioners, and Advocates
• Goes over the creators of the common myths around trafficking, and
their various refusals to put a stop to continuing misinformation and
fear.
• Mostly focuses on Kevin Bales
• Helped create the idea that human trafficking = modern slavery
• Guessed that over 27 million people are living in slavery across the world
cited by various government, police, non profits, and other entities
• Guessed that human trafficking is the 3rd largest organized crime enterprise in
the world.
12. Human Trafficking and Contemporary Slavery
Ronald Weitzer
Incurring a debt is deemed inherently coercive and harmful. It is assumed that these relationships are “forced” and that debt is a form of
indenture “purportedly incurred” in return for some kind of assistance. This definition ignores the many exchange relationships in which
individuals voluntarily agree to pay facilitators for the costs of their labor migration and willingly assume a debt in order to migrate or work—but
are not slaves “controlled by violence and denied all of their personal freedom” (Bales 2004, p. 6). In fact, incurring a debt to a middleman or
employer is a staple of labor migration for most resource-poor migrants. And for many migrants, bonded labor in a wealthy country is seen as far
preferable to what is available on the free labor market at home
Four claims are frequently made regarding modern slavery and human trafficking:
• The number of victims worldwide is huge. Estimates range from 8 to 27 million slaves and
• from 600,000 to 4 million trafficking victims.
• The magnitude of trafficking and slavery is steadily growing.
• Human trafficking is the second- or third-largest organized-crime enterprise in the world, after illegal drug and weapons trading; estimated
profits range from US$5 billion to US$36 billion annually.
• Sex trafficking is much more prevalent and harmful than labor trafficking.
Each of these assertions has been either questioned or debunked elsewhere (Chuang 2010, Fedina 2014, GAO 2006, Gozdziak & Collett 2005,
Jahic & Finckenauer 2005, Snajdr 2013, Vance 2012, Weitzer 2014, Zhang 2009). Suffice it to say that no evidence exists for any of them at the
global level, and it is difficult to imagine how these assertions could be substantiated globally. It is impossible to satisfactorily count the number
of persons involved or the magnitude of profits in an illicit, underground economy internationally or nationally—especially when there are no
tangible items such as illicit drugs or weapons (Andreas 2010). This means that the worldwide magnitude of victims of trafficking and slavery is
unknown.
13. “Polaris is a leader in the global fight to eradicate
modern slavery. Named after the North Star that
guided slaves to freedom”
17. You won’t find this on their
website
How they measure their
impact
2017 Annual Report
Coffee
18. It pays to run charities that function like
feudal systems/businesses
Jimmy Lee died in 2015.
He was getting 6 figures from
Restore NYC alone while
“foreign national sex trafficked
victims” – [they mainly target
Asian women] were getting an
average $1,227/month
19. International Justice Mission – Gary Haugen Moral
Crusade – A “slave abolitionist”, but against prison
abolition Solution to poverty according to Gary Haugen is “Law & Order”
“Our experience is that the average poor person lives in a state of lawlessness”
“high levels of criminal violence reduce a nation’s economic productivity by 2 to 3 full
percentage points of GDP—and”
Careers & Partners
20. “for nearly a decade, the World Bank has been reiterating its finding that “crime and violence have
emerged in recent years as major obstacles to the realization of development objectives.”8 The
Bank has stated flatly, “In many developing countries, high levels of crime and violence not only
undermine people’s safety on an everyday level, they also undermine broader development efforts
to improve governance and reduce poverty.”9 Multiple studies by the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have concluded that restraining violence is a precondition to poverty
alleviation and economic development, plainly stating that “a foundational level of order must be
established before development objectives can be realized.”10 Leaders of the United Kingdom’s
Department for International Development (DFID) have concluded, “Poor people want to feel safe
and secure just as much as they need food to eat, clean water to drink and a job to give them an
income. Without security there cannot be development.”11 When it comes to violence, researchers
are increasingly concerned that development experts are missing Amartya Sen’s insight that
“development [is] a process of expanding the real freedoms people enjoy,” and are failing to
appreciate the idea “that freedom from crime and violence are key components of development.
Freedom from fear is as important as freedom from want. It is impossible to truly enjoy one of these
rights without the other.”12”
― Gary A. Haugen, The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
21. Solutions
• Stop Funding Carceral Solutions!
• Example: Why funding Border Patrol won’t make conditions better
• Decarcerate, Demilitarize, Decriminalize & Destigmatize Immigration,
Poverty, Drugs, and Sex work
• Target monopolies like MindGeek [tech companies] that pirate porn and
make it free and accessible to the public. Ensure that all viewers must PAY
for the labor and therefore prove their age.
• Start the process for Reparations for ACTUAL SLAVERY!!!
• Stop sugarcoating history in schools
• Desegregate the schools, neighborhoods, workplaces, etc.
• Universal healthcare, housing, education
• Fund unions, the people and the workers & ensure to protect their rights