HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND ITS SOCIAL IMAPCTS…

PRESENTED BY:KHUSHBOO SHRIVASTAVA

CONTENTS

Introduction . WHAT is human trafficking? WHO suffers? WHO perpetrates? HOW are individuals victimized? WHAT are the recent statistics on the

issue? WHY does the problem exist and persist? WHAT values fuel illegal trafficking? HOW can we help eliminate it? WHO is already helping?

INTRODUCTION

Human trafficking is the 3rd largest international crime and its an illegal trade of human beings for forced labor and sexual exploitation.

Some people believe it started from the slave trade of Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.

Others consider it started during the 1700s when child labor came about.

Human Trafficking: What Is It?

Form of modern-day slavery

Victims of trafficking are exploited for commercial sex or labor purposes

Traffickers use force, fraud, or coercion to achieve exploitation

After drug dealing, human trafficking is tied with the illegal arms trade as the second largest criminal industry in the world, and it is the fastest growing

The abuse and trafficking of humans is truly a human rights violation

Compared to Drugs or Arms Sales Is more profitable Produce continuous profits Involves less risk

TYPES OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING Sex Trafficking

Labor Trafficking

Illegal Organ Harvesting

Illegal Organ Harvesting

“Organ harvesting refers to the practice of removing usable organs from someone who is dead so that they can be transplanted into someone else”.

Organ harvesting is done without the victims consent. Many are captured and violently killed only to harvest their organs and use them for small profits.

Sex Trafficking

“Sex trafficking occurs when people are forced or coerced into the commercial sex trade against their will. Child sex trafficking includes any child involved in commercial sex. Sex traffickers frequently target vulnerable people with histories of abuse and then use violence, threats, lies, false promises, debt bondage, or other forms of control and manipulation to keep victims involved in the sex industry”

Labor Trafficking

“Labor trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery in which individuals perform labor or services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. Labor trafficking includes situations of debt bondage, forced labor, and involuntary child labor. While this type of trafficking is not specific to any geographic region or population, the materials below discuss two very prevalent forms of labor trafficking in the U.S.”

Who Are Victims of Human Trafficking?

500,000 to 2 million people trafficked worldwide annually

800,000 to 900,000 victims annually are trafficked across international borders worldwide

More than half of victims trafficked into United States are children;

Victims can be trafficked into the U.S. from anywhere in the world.

Approximately 27 million people held in slavery worldwide

9 billion dollar business

Supply of Victims Is Seemingly Endless

There is a constant source of victims

Exploited persons are dispensable commodities

They are typically recruited

Promises of a better life can make victims vulnerable to traffickers

Difficult to Stop

Fueled by economically desperate victims and by market demands for cheap labor

Flourishes when end users can purchase slave labor without fear of legal consequences

Effective intervention/prevention requires proactive cooperation between law enforcement and communities

Impact of Human Trafficking on the Society Fuels organized crime Deprives countries of human

capital Promotes social breakdown Undermines public heal Subverts government authority Imposes enormous economic cost

Impact of Human Trafficking on Victims

Loss of support from family and community

Loss of proper education Obstacles in physical development Psychological Traumas

Facts

The present rate of trafficking in children is already 10 times higher than the trans-Atlantic slave trade at its peak

There is a victim of trafficking in the world every sixty seconds

Human trafficking will surpass drug dealing and arms trading

Every 10 minutes, a woman or child is trafficked into the United States

Nearly every country is involved in the web of trafficking activities

Sexual exploitation is the predominate form of trafficking

80% of the victims are female

Where is our voice in the midst of this?

Reasons we don’t speak…

Believe we don’t know enough

“Sex-industry” is well-funded to get out its message

Sounds like a “prude”

Denial

Not ready for what might happen

What if we don’t speak?

System will continue to provide the language, attitude, belief, and justification for its existence and self-perpetuation

Miss an opportunity to proclaim a message of redemption and transformation

People will suffer in silence, not understanding the oppression that has gripped them

Lives of our most vulnerable will continue to be shaped by a culture of exploitation

Stated Theologically

We are called to stand in the grace of God,

believing that it is a missioner priority to proclaim release to the captives of

the system of exploitation.

What can we do?

Advocate policies Support research Promote social awareness and

educate the public Provide services to victims

Department of State Report

Tier 1: complying with all laws

Tier 2: efforts to combat trafficking

Tier 3: ignoring or promoting trafficking

“Bringing hurt to public expression is an important first

step in the dismantling criticism that permits a new

reality, theological and social, to emerge.”

Walter BrueggemanThe Prophetic Imagination

“The task of prophetic imagination and ministry is to bring to public expression those very hopes and yearnings that have been denied so long and suppressed so deeply that we no longer know they are there. Hope is the refusal to accept the reading of reality which is the majority opinion; and one does that only at great political risk.”

Walter BrueggemanThe Prophetic Imagination

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Help End The War of Human Trafficking.

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