Modern Day Slavery: Sex Trafficking “I was sold for 3‚500 euros ($4‚400). I was beaten‚ raped‚ forced against my will. They would put out cigarette butts on me and cut me with razors. It was like a horror movie” (Kara 131). This first-hand account comes from Martina‚ a 29-year-old sex trafficking victim from Bulgaria. At the time she was 19 and working as cook. She met a young man who offered her a job at a restaurant in Croatia. Desperate for a better life‚ Martina took the job without a second
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Human Trafficking Jasmine Neal Academic English 12 Block 1 12/16/11 Every year more than 2.5 million people are taken from their homes‚ their lives‚ to be sold into slavery (EXIT‚ 2011). Human Trafficking is a crime against humanity. In 2003‚ Bush stated “Governments that tolerate the trade of humans‚ are tolerating a form of slavery.” Human trafficking is often run by small scale and loosely linked brokers and traffickers (EXIT‚ 2011).Traffickers take away all basic human rights. Our basic
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Committee History: The 4th Main Committee of the General Assembly (Special Political and Decolonization Committee) deals with a variety of political subjects not dealt with by the First Committee‚ as well as with decolonization. The committee came into being in its present recognizable form in 1993. Its origins can‚ however‚ be traced to the Special Political Committee that was formed as an ad-hoc committee in 1947 to deal specifically with issues of international politics and security. The General
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Child Trafficking UNDOC defines human trafficking as acquisition of people by illegal means such as force‚ fraud‚ deception‚ abduction or coercion for the purpose of exploiting them. According to one statistics of US state department‚ human trafficking victims are mostly women and girls (approximately 80%) and up to 50% are minors or children. It is well known fact that in each and every step of subsistence prevention is better than cure. Nowadays when crime and injustice become inevitable misery
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Human trafficking is a form of modern day slavery that plagues every country across the world. Men‚ women‚ and children are taken against their will every day and forced into prostitution or slave labor. Most victims’ ages range from 18 to 24 year of age‚ although there are children that are trafficked. ( ) Victims‚ most likely‚ are from poor families or have been abused or mistreated. Some children are sold by their own families for money. Other families are promised that if they send their child
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Drug trafficking is getting more serious everyday that if we do not make an attempt to stop or slow it down‚ deadly consequences will occur. There have been so many articles about this issue and the rate of deaths of people using drugs is increasing rapidly. Everything has a start and so do drugs. The drugs come from traffickers who don’t care about the result of people using it; therefore‚ they only care about how much money they gain. That is why I chose this topic; I chose it because I want to
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Julee McAleer Javier English 111-4440 8 November‚ 2015 The Realities of Human Trafficking “I’d like to tell you the story of these three children‚ Pranitha‚ Shaheen‚ and Anjali. Pranitha’s mother was a woman in prostitution‚ a prostituted person. She got infected with HIV‚ and towards the end of her life‚ when she was in the final stages of AIDS‚ she could not prostitute‚ so she sold four-year-old Pranitha to a broker. By the time we got the information‚ we reached there; Pranitha was already
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Essay 5: Drug Trafficking Derek L. Stewart Global Issues Dr. E. Masocha April 3‚ 2013 Drug trafficking is a major global issue because the cultivation‚ manufacturing‚ and distribution of illicit drugs debilitates people‚ cripples economies‚ and provides funding for wars or terrorism. Drug trafficking and drug addiction has cost millions of lives‚ driven others from their homes‚ caused financial collapse‚ and broken up families. For example‚ according to Linda Hefrich (2010)‚ Ecuador provided
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every other street corner. Although human trafficing is present in the U.S. it is no where near as heinous as whats is going on in other countries. Human trafficking can be described as modern slavery. Human trafficing is a filthy horrendous crime and the U.S. needs to do more to stop it. Women and children have been the victims of sex trafficking for thousands of years. This practice‚ going on throughout the centuries‚ finally became a political issue in the early 1900s. In 1902‚ the International
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Arms trafficking‚ also known as gunrunning is the illegal transporting of firearms from one state‚ or country to another. Organized crime groups buy and sell weapons such as heavy machine guns‚ hand-held guns‚ recilles rifles and grenades to name a few to other groups for large profits. Arms’ trafficking is a multi-billion dollar business. 87% of firearms recovered from Mexico were traced back to the US over the last five years and is said to be responsible for fueling Mexico’s drug violence according
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