2000 words essay
Due date May.8th 2014
Mai Anh Nguyen
The Problem of Trafficking In Person in South East Asia
Ritsumeikan University
College or International Relations
Global Studies major
Mai Anh Nguyen
Word count: 2027 According to the 2006 UN office of Drugs and Crime report entitled “Trafficking in Persons:Global Patterns “ and the 2000 UN Conversation Against Transnational Organized Crime, “trafficking in persons ” is the recruitment, transportation, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the thread or use of force or other forms of coercion, or abduction, or fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Trafficking on person is a violation of human rights and it should be eliminated from the world.
The United Nation was one of the first actors to call for recognition of the problem internationally. In December 2000, some eighty countries signed the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons. In 2003, the UN started to call to countries for measurements against trafficking in person with the protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in persons also known as the Palermo Protocol 2003. 11 years have passed and now 23 out of 27 countries agreed on this have the counterplans on their own. Countries and organizations have been dealing with trafficking in persons as a transnational problem also, as in many cases it required international cooperation. For what reasons this problem comparatively focusing on small groups keeps receiving attentions? Firstly to mention is that it seems nearly impossible to solve the problem’s grassroots. Trafficking in persons exists since long ago, of which it happened in high frequency in 1980s. At this period the control of people coming and
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