This presentation provides both an overview and insights into the how and why of human trafficking, problem and potential solutions. Pimps, Prostitutes and Profit

1. Pimps, Prostitutes & Profit
Human Trafficking in a Globalized world
A Presentation by Muslims Combatting Human Trafficking
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Javed Mohammed
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2. Poverty is So Miserable…
“I was desperate. When
they offered work, I had
no choice but to accept.
Soon after my arrival in
Japan, I realized that I had
been sold. My life after
that was like that of an
animal.”
“Set me free: Women immigrants often forced into prostitution,”
New Internationalist, Siriporn Skrobanek, September 1998
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3. Trafficking is…
• Buying or selling human beings
• Supporting the above by hiring forced
prostitutes or patronizing forced labor
establishments
Photo Credit: UNODC
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4. Poverty is So Miserable…
“I was sold three more
times and forced to have
sex everyday. My owner
threatened that
wherever I escaped to, I
would be traced and
killed and so would my
parents in Thailand.”
“Set me free: Women immigrants often forced into prostitution,”
New Internationalist, Siriporn Skrobanek, September 1998
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5. Trafficking is…
• Holding and/or transporting people against
their will
• Forcing people into servitude through
violence and/or deception
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6. It’s Worse Than You Realize
Trafficking in
persons is the 2nd
largest criminal
activity in the
world, following
illegal drugs Just in
front of illegal
arms
6

8. Types of Trafficking
• Sexual exploitation
• Child prostitution
• Forced labor
• Child soldiers
• Indentured servants
• Organ harvesting
Photo Credit: DOD JCCC
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9. Slavery is Happening Now
Photo Credit: UNODC
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10. “Those girls are whores of war. It
happens.” INTERNATIONAL POLICE TASK FORCE
After the Rape Camps
of Bosnia were
brought to a
close, the same IPTF
Peacekeepers were
trafficking young East
European women in
Sarajevo and beyond

11. Culture Influences our attitude

12. The Culture – The Internet
• Internet increased
availability and amount of
pornography, marketing
of prostitution, & online
live sex shows

13. The Culture
• Pimp culture in music &
video
• Pimp celebrities

14. The Culture
• Culture, mass-
media play a
role in
normalizing
prostitution

15. The Culture: The Academy Award
• "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp"
from HUSTLE & FLOW

16. Profit from the Global Sex Trade
• $75,000 to $250,000 per
victim/year (INTERPOL)

17. Who is Responsible?
• Organized Crime
• Contractors, Government Civilians
• Military Personnel
• Culture
• Corrupt Police
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18. Who is Responsible?
• Citizens:
• Young & Old
• Fat & Ugly
• Secular & Religious
• In over 150 countries
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19. Who is the criminal?
•0.6% arrests were pimps
13 From Hughes, Donna M. The Demand for Victims of Sex Trafficking. 2005.
Chicago Police in District 14(2001-2002) 19

20. Who is the criminal?
•9.6% arrested were
male purchasers of
commercial sex acts
13 From Hughes, Donna M. The Demand for Victims of Sex Trafficking. 2005.
Chicago Police in District 14(2001-2002) 20

21. Who is the criminal?
•89% of the arrests were female victims of commercial
sex acts
13 From Hughes, Donna M. The Demand for Victims of Sex Trafficking. 2005.
Chicago Police in District 14(2001-2002) 21

22. The Victims
Most victims are women and children who
have been:
• Kidnapped
• Tricked
• Coerced/Forced
• Sold by their families
Photo Credit: DOD JCCC
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23. How does trafficking happen?

24. Recruited in groups
• But no safety in
numbers

25. How they get your trust
• First link in chain is a
relative, friend, neighbo
r.

26. Police & traffickers a team
• In many parts of the
world with high
corruption going to the
police, does not help
the victim escape.

27. If victim goes to police
• They may return victim
to pimp or imprison
them for prostitution
and deport then deport
them for being illegal

28. Gaining trust
• Sometimes the first
wave of victims is
allowed to go
home, and impress
other girls with luxury
cars, clothes and
jewelry and recruit the
next round.

29. Match-making services in Eastern
Europe
• Most mail order brides
run by organized crime

30. Where do they find their prey
• With the poor, weak
and vulnerable. Eg
Orphans who have to
leave the orphanage on
turning 16, 17. Children
abandoned by parents

31. Sexual Slavery caused by
• Devastating Poverty
• Armed conflict
• Rapid Industrialization
• Exploding Population
growth

32. Why can’t they escape?
• They are watched by
thugs, and sold many
times, so they do not
know the language nor
have any
documentation

33. Why can’t they escape?
• Can’t trust police, and
also threat to family
back home

34. Why are so many young women
vulnerable
• Unemployment is as
high as 80% for women
but they are still
expected to shoulder
responsibility

35. Go West
• The youth dream of the
West. To be offered a
job is a dream come
true.

36. • Your dignity is in your
hands take care of it.
Modeling adventures
are rarely that.

37. Nothing in the world is free
• If it sounds too good to
be true it is. Ask
yourself why would
they be doing this?

38. How could they be so naïve?
• A young woman
struggling for survival
may suspend her better
judgment and take a big
risk

39. Life is not like the movies
• Pretty Woman

40. Reality
• Have sex with 10-20
Johns per day

41. Solution: what can I do?

42. Do something anything to make the
word a better place

43. November 25,
is
International Day
for the Elimination
of Violence against
Women

44. A day of Empathy

45. A day to educate

46. A day to be a citizen of the world

47. A day to critique films, tv, ads, & media

48. Protest the pimp culture

49. Adultery in all faiths is a big sin
• Visiting
bars, clubs, massage
parlors, or other
places with fronts for
prostitution should
be avoided at all
costs

50. Remember, there is a higher power
God watching your every move
• God enjoins justice
and kindness, and
giving to kinfolk, and
forbids indecency
and abomination and
wickedness
Holy Quran
And those who commit oppression shall know
what kind of destiny they shall meet

51. END
Injustice anywhere is a threat to
justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr
SLAVERY
And if anyone saved a life, it
would be as if he saved the life of
a whole people
Holy Quran
FOREVER
Come save a life
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