Post on 06-May-2015
Human TraffickingBy Adam Kotula, Andrew Hansen, Sam Davey, Eric
Liese, Kyle Healey, Nick Fisher
Depiction of Human Trafficking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwAhti93QYU
History of Slavery
Exodus: Moses frees the Israelites from hundreds of years of slavery under the rule of the Egyptian Pharaoh
1619: The colony of Jamestown is first introduced to slavery
American Civil War: Fought to free the southern African Americans from slavery
Emancipation Proclamation
Slave Ship
Egyptian Slavery
Background Information
Definition: Human trafficking is a form of modern day slavery where people make profit from the control and exploitation of others
As defined under U.S. federal law, victims of human trafficking include children involved in the sex trade, adults age 18 or over who are coerced or deceived into commercial sex acts, and anyone forced into different forms of "labor or services," such as domestic workers held in a home, or farm-workers forced to labor against their will.
Polaris Project
Mission: Polaris Project is committed to combating human trafficking and modern-day slavery, and to strengthening the anti-trafficking movement through a comprehensive approach.
Polaris Project Timeline of Success
2002-Katherine Chon and Derek Ellerman co-found Polaris Project on February 14th, and launch one of the nation’s first grassroots initiatives against human trafficking.
2004- Polaris Project opens its Tokyo office, supported through a grant from the U.S. Department of State, to address human trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of children in Japan.
2006-Polaris Project opens one of the only transitional housing programs for trafficking survivors in the U.S, providing a safe space for survivors to heal and rebuild their lives.
2009- Polaris Project helps to secure a 25% increase in Department of Justice funding for services for human trafficking survivors.
2011- After Polaris Project forwards tips from the human trafficking hotline to the appropriate authorities, law enforcement opens at least 123 new investigations.
Victims
Victims can be men or women, children or adults, and of all ages
More vulnerable people: undocumented migrants; runaway and homeless youth; and oppressed, marginalized, and/or impoverished groups and individuals.
Human traffickers typically prey on individuals who are vulnerable in some way. Some examples of high risk populations include undocumented migrants, runaways and at-risk youth, and oppressed or marginalized groups
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr4xnWa1R2M&feature=player_embedded#
Common Work and Living Conditions: The
Individual • Is not free to leave or come and go as he/she wishes
• Is under 18 and is providing commercial sex acts
• Is in the commercial sex industry and has a pimp / manager
• Is unpaid, paid very little, or paid only through tips
• Works excessively long and/or unusual hours
• Is not allowed breaks or suffers under unusual restrictions at work
• Owes a large debt and is unable to pay it off
• Was recruited through false promises concerning the nature and conditions of his/her work
• High security measures exist in the work and/or living locations (e.g. opaque windows, boarded up windows, bars on windows, barbed wire, security cameras, etc.)
Where is Sex Trafficking most
Common? Residential Brothels
Strip Clubs
Escort Services
Hostess Clubs
Run down parts of town (Red Lights Districts)
Types of Human Trafficking
Pimping
Pimps sell women and girls in the commercial sex industry by using numerous methods to gain control over their bodies and minds.
They use force, fraud, or coercion to control the behavior of their victims
Drugs are also used as a manipulative method to exert control
Pimping
Pimping in San Diego
17 year old girl lured into pimping because she needs the money
Types of Human Trafficking Continued
Labor
Traffickers often threaten foreign national workers with arrest and deportation, even workers who have the legal right to work in the United States.
Usually no or little pay
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 “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.”
Labor Trafficking
This graph shows the Concentration of humanTrafficking around the world
Labor Trafficking affects People of all ages
Types of Human Trafficking Continued
Organ Trafficking
Organ trade is the trade involving inner organs (heart, liver, kidneys etc.) of a human for transplantation.
A kidney from a living donor will keep you alive twice as long as one taken from a cadaver
Organization estimates that one fifth of the 70,000 kidneys transplanted worldwide every year come from the black market.
Poverty is seen in all countries with a large black market for organs
The Human Tissue Act 2004 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which consolidated the authority to regulate the removal, storage, and use and disposal of human bodies, organs and tissue 2007 was first conviction
Organ Trafficking
Indian Organ Trafficking victims Israeli Organ Trafficking
Trafficking in the US
The internet has become the new marketplace for trafficking children
The UN reports that the US is one of the top three destination countries to which people are trafficked
As many as 100,000 children are forcefully engaged in prostitution or pornography each year
Victims have been found in rural as well as urban areas across the US
US State Department estimates that around 17,500 men, women, and children are trafficked into the US annually
The actual number of people currently in trafficking situations in the US is much larger, possibly in the hundreds of thousands
International Trafficking
42.5 Billion Dollar industry
Estimated 161 Countries Worldwide
12.3 Million Men, woman, and children total have been trafficked
Both within and across international borders
Human Trafficking is the second fastest growing criminal industry, and the third most profitable
The International Labor Organization estimates that human trafficking accounts for $32 billion in illicit profits
Each year, 600,000-800,000 men, women, and children, are trafficked across international borders
CST Connection “In fact, the roots of human rights are to be found in the dignity that belongs to each
human being. This dignity, inherent in human life and equal in every person, is perceived and understood first of all by reason.” (153 CCC pg. 67)
Human trafficking exploits the rights and dignity that is, according to Catholic Social Teaching, supposed to be respected among all people.
Option for the poor and vulnerable: These are the groups of people most susceptible to human trafficking and as Catholics we have the duty to protect them from this economically sinful practice
Care for God’s creation: The people affected by human trafficking are not being cared for by society. Laws and organizations are needed to care for victims and prevent future exploitations to take place
The Dignity of Work and the Rights of the Workers: The rights of the people induced in human trafficking are treated are treated as products and obtain limited rights as human beings. The conditions these people are subjected to are unsafe, dangerous, and unfair
Thrival Rights: human trafficking prevents people from those things necessary to fully realize their God-given dignity. They are denied education and a means to support themselves. Victims are physcholoically and physically sedated by the work they are forced into
What Can You Do?
Support the Polaris organization in its fight against human segregation by signing up on their website
Sign up for the Grassroots Network to receive regular updates and action alerts
Tell your family and friends to raise awareness
Join the End Human Trafficking Facebook page
Urge your legislators to enact stricter human trafficking laws
Human Trafficking
Often times, people are left with no choice
Human Trafficking is handcuffsm, preventing the person to have human dignity
Taken Movie Representation of Human Trafficking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCbDUREBwUg
Works Cited http://www.polarisproject.org/about-us/introduction
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/01/09/not-just-urban-legend.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_trade
http://www.zimbio.com/Hashim+Thaci/articles/lHaBFwYHkQ9/Israelis+nabbed+human+organ+trafficking+Kosovo
http://transitionsglobal.blogspot.com/
http://www.examiner.com/border-and-immigration-in-los-angeles/pimping-fastest-growing-crime-san-diego-nationwide
http://www.prayerforfreedom.com/?p=7
http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/english/detail/84354.html
http://unchainedgeneration.publishpath.com/awareness
http://technologyandtrafficking.usc.edu/report/executive-summary/
http://putanendtohumanslavery.blogspot.com/