Team Raban Small Group Communication Professor Correa 11 November 2012 Current Events Project: Sex Trafficking in Los Angeles According to her testimony on the Christian Broadcasting Network‚ Melissa Woodward was fourteen years old when she was sold into the human trafficking industry by a member of her own family. Beaten and raped for the first twenty-four hours‚ those that were holding her captive wanted her to understand that she was no longer human‚ but property‚ merely a
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Sex Trafficking Sex trafficking is a problem around the world. The United States State Department estimates that roughly 700‚000 to 2 million women and girls are smuggled across borders every year. Eastern Europe is where much of the initial selling occurs. This black market ’s sales are comparable to the slave trade in United States history‚ and is equivalent to the sale of cattle. Sex trafficking refers to the movement of women and children for purposes of prostitution or some other form of
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This paper presents a comprehensive review of current literature on human trafficking into and within the United States. This review of the literature is part of a larger study funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)‚ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation‚ to examine how HHS programs are currently addressing the needs of victims of human trafficking‚ including domestic victims‚ with a priority focus on domestic youth. This study is also structured
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Human Trafficking in the United States Nicole Singleton American Intercontinental University Online November 12‚ 2012 Until recently‚ in the US‚ the thought never occurred that Americans were trafficking Americans. The purpose of this paper is to inform the audience about the crime of human trafficking that is happening in the US and also to persuade them to take a stand and help do something to combat this crime. Thesis: Human trafficking in the United States seems to be overlooked and
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should be overseen as well in order to mitigate its effects and eradicate if at all possible. Specifically‚ I will be focusing on human trafficking originating in Asia and what key international economic organizations and nongovernmental organizations are doing to identify and stop this problem. Although there is no consensus on the definition of human trafficking‚ it is typically considered to be a modern day form of slavery‚ involving victims who are typically forces‚ defrauded‚ or coerced into
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Human Trafficking At present‚ human trafficking is still a big problem in the Philippine‚ and women and children are still in great danger because of this crime. So in an effort to deal with the problem‚ the government passed R.A. 9208‚ the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003‚ a penal law against human trafficking‚ sex tourism‚ sex slavery and child prostitution. Since the passage and enforcement of this law‚ the government and the people became vigilant on the happenings around and made efforts
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Project One Human trafficking is a cold‚ devastating and disturbing crime against human kind. It is unbelievable how an individual can be cold hearted against their own kind‚ such as exploiting‚ selling‚ abusing and even slaving them involuntary damaging them physically and emotionally. Victims range from children‚ to women and even men from different places all over the world. This horrible crime has been around for a couple of years destroying the victims and their families. Many people have
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Human Trafficking in the United States In the world today there are about twenty to thirty million slaves in Human Trafficking. Human Trafficking is a form of modern day slavery that people profit from the control and exploitation of others. Human Trafficking is the third largest international crime today. 80% of human trafficking is sexual exploitation and or abuse and the other 20% is labor. 70%of human slaves are female or children. Shyima Hall was forced into that 70%‚ but was lucky enough
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Human Trafficking is one of the fastest growing crime industries in the world. Human trafficking is a phrase that is used to describe the various ways in which a person “obtains or holds another person in compelled service” (U.S. Department of State‚ 2011‚ p. 9). There are several categories of human trafficking‚ such as forced labor‚ sex trafficking‚ and bond or debt labor. Human trafficking can affect adults and children‚ with the trafficking in children for sex being particularly bad. Human trafficking
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Human trafficking: is this ancient crime eternal or can it be stopped? Trafficking in persons is modern-day slavery‚ involving victims who are forced‚ defrauded‚ or coerced into labor or sexual exploitation. The International Labor Organization‚ the UN agency charged with addressing labor standards‚ employment‚ and social protection issues‚ estimates that 12.3 million people worldwide are enslaved in forced labor‚ bonded labor‚ forced child labor‚ sexual servitude‚ and involuntary servitude at any
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