Changes.......Need to happen

Human and children trafficking has become an important global problem. Every country and person in the world needs to unite and search for a common goal. Trafficking has become a driving profit force that has pushed people into children and women trafficking business. People’s culture and understand of trafficking need to change. It becomes a battle of resist, where not just one person can say NO, but the whole world.

The first step to break this problem is for people to be aware of what is happening to these children. They are taken away from their families, ship around the world, and pushed into prostitution with no means of fighting back. The children are forced to take drugs and are given little food, clothing, and shelter to survive. They become dependent on the cappers and no way to leave.

The statistics behind trafficking are hard to estimate and fathom. Both the amount of children in trafficking around the world and profit made off these children is unbelievable. Over 1 million children are exploited into prostitution every year. Within 2009, the estimated profit for human trafficking was about 32 billion dollars, on average 13,000 was made by each “forced laborer.”

Change is something that has to happen. People need to resist children slavery and exploitation. Imagine if your own child or someone from your family was forced into prostitution . . . . . . . . . . . . . You would do whatever it took to save them. The world needs to give opportunity to save this generation from prostitution through resources which can save children. Countries need to rely on other means to fuel their economy besides trafficking. Intense global policies need to be put into place for countries and people that are trafficking people.


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Websites for Trafficking......

http://www.sctnow.org/

Stop Children Trafficking website focuses completely on trafficking of children around the world. SCTNOW.org looks at every part of children trafficking from history to statistics.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/ncvrw/2005/pg5l.html

Looks at the United States Response to trafficking and the reality of availability of statistics on trafficking. The fact that trafficking has become such a secret market, it has been difficult to obtain any real information.

http://www.dreamcenter.org/new/images/outreach/RescueProject/stats.pdf

Human Trafficking Statistics/Polaris Project has compiled statistics from around the world and within the United States. Each statistic is supported with a reliable source.

http://www.unicef.org/protection/index_exploitation.html

The website Talk about trafficking as a global problem and the effects it is having on children throughout the world. It also connects sexual exploitation with children trafficking and the effects on children.

http://www.humantraffickinged.com/

This site defines human trafficking, target markets for traffickers, statistics, laws fight trafficking, and many other aspects of trafficking.

http://www.childtrafficking.org/

UNICEF is a website that compiles research by the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre on Child Trafficking from 2003-2005. This research is now being maintained as historial background for UNICEF.

http://www.unglobalcompact.org/docs/issues_doc/labour/Forced_labour/HUMAN_TRAFFICKING_-_THE_FACTS_-_final.pdf

Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking has collected facts about trafficking from around the world from reliable sources. The site discusses facts on victims, traffickers, and profit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafficking_of_children

Wikipedia brings explains the history, facts, definition, and challenges of trafficking of children. This site uses many resources and connection to other sites that would be informative for on the issues.

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/trafficking/

U.S. Department of Health and Human Service Administration for Children and Families discuss rehabilitation back into normal society after trafficking.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6514945.html

“More men victims of human trafficking” brings up points about men, rather than just focusing on children and women.

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/index.html

United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime defines trafficking and the struggles facing immigrants from the trafficking trade. The site also talks about news and events and prevention of children trafficking.

http://www.no-trafficking.org/

This site is the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP) and its central focus on trafficking in persons and a mandate to facilitate a stronger and more coordinated response to trafficking.

http://www.theiacp.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=W7b9hV6wn%2BA%3D&tabid=87

The Crime of Human Trafficking: A Law Enforcement Guide to Identification and Investigation within the United Sates. This report explains laws against trafficking and smuggling and identification of both.

http://www.humantrafficking.org/

This site is a web resource for combating trafficking around the world. This site has continual updates from trafficking in different countries.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/non-profit-gears-up-to-help-teen-victims-of-human-traffickers-90339264.html

“Non-Profit Gears Up to Help Teen Victims of Human Traffickers” this article talks about how businesses are trying to make a different for children trafficking within the United States.

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Colonial vs Consent

Within my class we have been focusing on the themes of slavery, which has wonderful connection to my topic. The idea that slavery has changed is evident throughout our society.



Back in colonial times, slavery was everywhere. It was part of life in the southern United States, which had connections around the world. Slavery was not only legal, but accepted by society as natural fact and romanticized for people. Most of the original slaves were forced into slavery. They were brought to different parts of the world by force. In response, slaves were forced into isolation from both culture and family. They were dehumanized and used as profit. Having slaves shipped around the world, made slavery expensive and commodity. It became a battle of control through violence and exploitation, which would last for generations and in most cases be permanent.

In the world of slavery now, it becomes a secretive battle. Invisible and unknown to a person that doesn’t care to take a second and stop and see the problem of human trafficking all around the world. It has become immoral, unlawful, and politically/socially incorrect to be affiliated with slaves and slavery.

Even though slavery is seen as a horrific thing, people are somehow connected in their everyday activities. A great deal of products Americans consume everyday are made in sweat shops in other parts of the world and even different foods we eat have been harvested my slave labor.

This new slavery focuses on the whole idea of consent. Slaves are put into these situations because they want to make something better for themselves and their families. They become forced into a couple different types of slavery, things such as debt bondage, contract slavery, human trafficking, and chattel. These all become types of forced labor either in the house doing choirs or on the streets performing sexual favors. Slaves are now seen as temporary and replaceable. They can be disposed of at any time.

The biggest fear is that children slaves become completely invisible to the normal person. They are exploited and disposed of at anytime. Children slaves become so isolated that they have no other chose but to be exploited. They see no way out ................. in a world of high demand for sex and children that people are not afraid to loss a little to gain a lot.

Statistics on Trafficking

Trafficking on a global scale

27 million – Number of people in modern-day slavery across the world

800,000 – Number of people trafficked across international borders every year

U.S. Department of State, Trafficking in Persons Report: 2007

1 million – Number of children exploited by the global commercial sex trade, every year

U.S. Department of State, The Facts About Child Sex Tourism: 2005

An estimated 2.5 million children, the majority of them girls, are sexually exploited in the multibillion dollar commercial sex industry

UNICEF

50% – Percent of transnational victims are children

U.S. Department of Justice

161 – Countries identified as affected by human trafficking

UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Trafficking in Persons

32 billion – Total yearly profits generated by the human trafficking industry

Trafficking within the United States

An estimated 14,500 to 17,500 foreign nationals are trafficked into the United States each year. The number of U.S. citizens trafficked within the country is even higher, with an estimated 200,000 American children at risk for trafficking into the sex industry.

U.S Department of Justice Report to Congress from Attorney General John Ashcroft on U.S. Government Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons

244,000 – Number of American children and youth estimated to be at risk of child sexual exploitation, including commercial sexual exploitation, in 2000.

38,600 – Estimated number of an approximate 1.6 million runaway/thrown away youth at risk of sexual endangerment or exploitation in 1999.

Investigators and researchers estimate the average predator in the U.S. can make more than $200,000 a year off one young girl.

NBC Report by Teri Williams

300,000 children in the U.S. are at risk every year for commercial sexual exploitation

U.S. Department of Justice

Taking a second to look at the trafficking facts is overwhelming. Human and children trafficking is a problem within the United States and throughout the world. The lack of understanding and published material is evident within our society. Trafficking becomes a profit driven industry, where humans and especially children are being exploited. The fact that people are not informed is a large part of the problem. People don’t see statistics on children trafficking on a day to day basis. If is don’t affect us, then most people don’t take the time to care. Getting informed about the problems with children trafficking is the first step to making a difference.

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Human Trafficking History

3000 BC – 300 AD Ancient Egyptian, Roman, Greek, and Persian cultures had slavery, forced prostitution, and sexual exploitation.

1441 African Slave trade began with men exploited for labor in Europe and Caribbean, while women were used for labor and sexual exploitation.

1619 First slave in the United States

1865 13th Amendment passed, which outlawed slavery

1885 Criminal Amendment Act rose the age of sexual consent from 13 to 16 in Britain, which brought worldwide attention to forced prostitution of children around the world.

1949 The Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others established by the United Nations

1998 Shared Hope International was created by Congresswomen Linda Smith to rescue and restore women and children facing the issues of women and children trafficking

2000 U.S. Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act (TVPA) was passed by Congress to declare that sex trafficking is the “modern day slavery”

2001 War Against Trafficking Alliance is formed to fight sex trafficking in specific regions around the world that have high levels of children and human trafficking. WATA helps create local and national alliances to face the problems of trafficking and restoration of victims of sex exploration.

2003 and 2005 TVPA was reauthorized by the U.S. Congress allocating more funds and additional measures to continue fighting trafficking

2005 United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children to combat the exploitation of person, especially women and children. The United States was the 95th country to ratify the protocol.

2008 William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act was passed by Congress to enforce tougher criminal penalties for traffickers and increases protection and services for U.S. citizen and foreign national victims in America

From the beginning of time men, women, and children have been sold into human trafficking. People have been pushed into labor and prostitution all around the world. Countries with low economic strength have problems with women and children being pushed and pulled into trafficking. The lack of governmental structure to protect and prevent children trafficking is crucial. When minority groups are present it is common for them to be forced into prostitution and trafficking. Around the world women and children as a whole feel trapped into the sex trade. They feel it is the only way for them to help their families survive.

Prostitution and slavery is still evident in our society in the United States and throughout the world. We encounter children trafficking throughout different media avenues. Personally I see trafficking occurring around the world, mostly emphasized outside of the US. I have the understanding that it happens in third world countries where they have no other choice. As an American we are free and have many opportunities for freedom. Outside of our free country, women and children become subject to discrimination with little hope for change. Young girls feel they have no other choice, but to sell themselves for money to survive. Children are trafficked around the world to supple the demand for prostitution. In most cases the children are taken without consent. These developing countries try to change their culture, but with such demands from powerful western nations they see no way out.

It is important that people understand the importance and the reality of the situation. Putting children trafficking into perspective and making it real for our generation is the most crucial part. Children around the world feel there is no other way but to sell themselves because of culture, social standings, and frame of the situation.

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Children Trafficking

Over the course of the semester, I will be discussing the issues facing globalization with a focus on child trafficking. Globalization’s effects on the global market and people around the world, making it easy to transfer products and culture for profit and capital. With this global playing field, people are mistreated, abused, and dehumanized. I am interested in focusing on children being pushed around into labor and prostitution to fit within the global marketplace.

I want to focus on childhood prostitution and mistreatment, discussing the lack of coverage and importance shown on women and children trafficking. Children are the future of this world, and people cannot just sit back and watch as children are being dehumanized all around us. People need to be informed of the issues to be able to make a difference and change the problem.

Globalization is a central theme of our class, along with looking at the effects of what globalization does to people, culture, and society. I would like to focus directly on children and the connections of the global market and trafficking, learn how the next generation is being shaped by issues of children trafficking. Taking a deep look in how trafficking has connections to gender, race, and economic status.

This semester I want to become more informed of the issues of children trafficking. Understand the worldly ramifications of dehumanization of children focusing on the connections of globalization. I would also want to inform others of the horrific problems facing children within the world of trafficking. How the effects are seen for generations and connection to cultural believes.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING STATISTICS
http://www.dreamcenter.org/new/images/outreach/RescueProject/stats.pdf