Human Trafficking in the United States Human trafficking has been an ongoing issue in the United States affecting millions of innocent lives each day. The practice of this so called modern slavery has evolved in a completely inhumane way and it is an activity as old as history itself. Our society is one where the atrocious beatings owners gave their slaves are considered history. We live in a society that knows little about the severity of a crime that is still alive today and that is gaining
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greater defeat than that of human dignity. The range at which human trafficking has grown is beyond imaginable. Approximately 20 to 30 million modern-day slaves render this torture‚ with over 600‚000 illegally pursuing these actions within the United States. Figure 1 exemplifies globally as to the areas that have higher trafficking rates. While all forms of human trafficking are indeed atrocious‚ one such that has come to light is sex-trafficking and prostitution. Sex-trafficking is defined as the migration
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TSL1054 – LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT II Causes & Effects of Human Trafficking By‚ Mohd Nur Hifzhan Bin Noordan Lecturer’s name: Madam Anna Mary Perumal SIGNAL WORDS ♥Impact ♥Due to ♥Reported push factors were ♥Caused ♥Channels ♥Root causes ♥Effects ♥Factors A lady being hit for not doing her job Causes of Human Trafficking Poverty Political Instability & Natural Disasters Debt Addiction Demand POVERTY • In poorer regions of the world where education and employment opportunities are limited
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Over the past few weeks it has been brought to my attention how prevalent human trafficking is in our state. But unfortunately many times we are choosing to turn a “blind eye” about this horrific crime. As we pull into the 2017 more than 200 hundred cases have been reported and a whopping 919 calls have been made to crisis centers. Unfortunately this epidemic has gone overlooked for many years‚ and wasn’t even officially acknowledged in Kansas City‚ KS until 2005. Statistically speaking it has been
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One human service problem that crosses not just United States borders but international borders is human trafficking. Human trafficking is forced labor‚ slavery through debt bondage or servitude‚ forced marriage‚ or sex. Approximately 12.3 million people are victims of human trafficking around the world each year (Martin‚ 2014‚ p. 375). Of that approximation roughly 10‚000 are women and children. (Martin‚ 2014‚ p.375). While researching this topic I was surprised to learn many children are sold
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5% of the population are unemployed. 28.6% of the population live below poverty line”. As maintained by the U.S. Department of State‚ “Millions of Russian workers are underemployed. Unemployment is highest among women and young people”. Through Human Rights Watch‚ I learned that “Until recently‚ women made up approximately half of Russia’s work force”. However‚ due to “the overall dislocation of the Russian economy”…numerous people found themselves unemployed and in need of work in “market that
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Human Trafficking the two part mini series that aired Monday on Lifetime Network caught my interest and made me research it further. The mini series Human Trafficking follows the story of four woman and girls as they are taken into the vicious world of human slavery. Human slavery is to this day is still a very real problem in the world. As I researched my topic I found that Human Trafficking is a trade that includes not only sex‚ but pedophilia‚ human slavery and even organ harvesting. The slave
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million people held in “some form of bondage”‚ based on anti-slavery groups like Free the Slaves. Slavery is particularly prevalent in today’s Sudan‚ India‚ Pakistan‚ and Ukraine; a humongous number of sex-trafficking victims are also transported to the U.S. and Japan every year. Human trafficking is now a $12-billion-a-year global industry. According to the article‚ kidnapping is the most common means for today’s traffickers to obtain people‚ in addition‚ victims are very likely to be lured by promising
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to the trafficking grouping. After 10 days she managed to escape with the help of an Italian client‚ succeeding in reaching the Serbian border where she exposed the entire case to the frontier police. Most members of the grouping were arrested and the case was investigated by the Belgrade organized crime special court. Although the victim received professional assistance and
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the issue of human trafficking. Start to take more of a leading role to prevent “the exploitation of unwilling people through force.”(Schmalleger‚ 605) Have more measures out in place to combat the prevention of these crimes from happening‚ make examples of some of these criminals to prevent other similar acts to follow for those who commit these crimes‚ and offer out more help for those victimized not
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