Human trafficking the issue versus propaganda & its ultimate solution
1. Human Trafficking: The Issue
Versus Propaganda
& Its Ultimate Solution
Presented by Yolanda Martin
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2. Objective
The purpose of this presentation is to provide insight into
human trafficking or modern-day slavery, which is more
prevalent today than it’s been at any point in human history,
to dispel myths and propaganda that minimize this
dilemma, and to propose viable solutions to it and its
causes.
Insomuch as the chief cause of Human trafficking is
poverty, the proposed solutions will hinge upon emergency
and permanent relief (food, health care, transitional
housing, education, and international industry or business
creation and proliferation).
3. Definition
Human trafficking is the recruitment, receipt or harboring,
and transporting of people for the purpose of forced labor,
including prostitution, domestic servitude, forced marriage
for the purpose of sex and domestic servitude, and other
forms of sexual exploitation (organ harvesting is another
form of human trafficking).
4. Scope
The trafficking of humans is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world,
second only to drug trafficking. According to the International Labor Organization, it
has a global annual market of about $44.3 billion. Foreign trafficking for
prostitution in Canada alone is estimated to be worth $400 million. The United
Nations estimates that 12 to 27 million people are trafficked worldwide.
Victims are usually economically disadvantaged minorities, although they may
come from any social background, race, or class, and they are often displaced
persons, like runaways or refugees (Trafficked children in West Africa have lost
one or both parents to AIDS).
Agriculture, mining, and forced prostitution are the most prevalent forms of
human trafficking (Antebellum slavery in America hinged primarily upon
agriculture).
Females are especially vulnerable for sex trafficking (70% of victims are women
and girls), while men are more at risk for being trafficked or forced into
unskilled labor.
5. Causes
The chief causes of human trafficking are:
1. Poverty
2. Social discrimination
3. Organized crime
4. Corruption in government
5. Insufficient penalties against traffickers
The trafficking of humans is a lucrative industry because it
requires little start-up money, and, unlike drugs, people can be
sold repeatedly. According to the State Department’s Annual
Trafficking in Person’s Report cited by Secretary of State,
Hillary Clinton, the global economic crisis has increased
episodes of human trafficking.
6. Global Stats
An estimated 14,000+ people are trafficked into the United States each year.
In Moldova (or officially the Republic of Moldova), a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, where the
unemployment rate for women ranges as high as 68%, a third of the workforce lives and works abroad,
and an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 women (up to 10% of the female population) have been sold into
prostitution.
An estimated 300,000 women and children are involved in the sex trade throughout Southeast Asia.
An estimated 200,000 Nepali girls have been sold into sex slavery in India, many under 14 years of age.
Many Iraqi women, fleeing the Iraq war, turned to prostitution or are trafficked abroad to countries like
Syria, which is popular for sex tourism, and where an estimated 50,000 girls and women (many of whom
are widows) are forced into prostitution.
In Cambodia, where the average income is less than $300.00 a year, and where around 30,000 children,
according to Cambodia’s Minister of Women’s Affairs, Mu Soc Hua, are disposable for exploit.
An estimated 500,000 women from Central and Eastern Europe are working in prostitution in the
European Union.
7. The Controllers
A majority of trafficking is done by networks of small groups in which
each specialize in certain areas, like recruitment, advertising, retail, or
transportation.
In places like Eastern Europe, Russia, Columbia, Hong Kong, and Japan,
trafficking is controlled by large criminal organizations.
Trafficked victims in the Russian federation are typically kidnapped and
sold by police to be used for hard labor, often chained and drugged like
dogs to prevent them from escaping.
NATO and United Nations “peacekeeping” forces are even linked to
human trafficking, including forced prostitution. Rapid increases in
prostitution were reported in Cambodia after UN forces moved in, and in
Bosnia and Kosovo after UN and NATO forces settled into these regions.
8. Recruitment/Tactics
Victims are commonly lured and trafficked through promises of
legitimate employment, like, commonly, in the catering and hotel
industry, clubs, bars, modeling, au pair work (a foreign national
domestic assistant working for and living as part of a host family). They
are typically recruited by use of coercion, deception, abuse of power,
fraud, feigned love, and abduction, and through newspaper ads, the
internet, pseudo employment agencies and front businesses, diplomats,
and employers generally.
Victims are often impelled to consent to exploitation by threats
(including those against family members), violence, and debt bondage.
9. Dynamics of Trafficked Children
Children are forced into early marriage as well as prostitution, or they are
recruited as child soldiers, beggars, or for sports, such as football or child
camel jockey, or religious cults.
Young virgin girls are enslaved and used sexually by “priests” in a ritualistic
system of servitude called trokosi in Ghana or voodoosi in Togo and Benin, and
are further exploited for free labor within this system of shrine slavery…
The Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the United States
and Canada has been implicated in the trafficking of minor girls across state and
international boundaries.
Thousands of children from South America, Africa, and Asia are sold into
the global sex trade. They are often orphaned, kidnapped, or actually sold
by their families.
Illicit
international adoption is a vehicle of the trafficking of babies and
pregnant women between the developing world and the West.
10. Propaganda
Itis a hoax, exaggerated, or sensationalized.
Trafficking only occurs in poor countries, when actually every
country in the world is involved.
Victims want to be in this industry.
Trafficking is distinguished from “people smuggling,”
where there may be no deception involved, and
individuals voluntarily request smuggler’s services for
fees.
Rhetorical debates have further invoked a line of
demarcation between trafficking and prostitution.
11. The Pros & Cons of Voluntary Prostitution & People
Smuggling According to the Yay and Naysayers
“Pros” “Cons”
Some form of income is better than none, Unethical and exploitative labor practices, from
or the ends justify the means. inhumane or substandard working conditions to
Those who endorse legalizing prostitution emotional and physical abuse, often under
argue that condoms and pimps for duress or the threat of deportation, as for
“protection” somehow dignify the trade. trafficked refugees and/or immigrants.
Vulnerability for and for spreading sexually
Where people smuggling or forms of
transmitted diseases and for undesirable
voluntary trafficking are concerned, the pregnancies and forced abortions.
electing of these individuals to market Scarce pay, in some cases, nothing more than a
themselves supersedes any question of meal.
ethics. Trafficked individuals may be provided a place to
Trafficked individuals (including mail live, but are less likely to acquire appropriate
order brides) are provided with a place to assistance and make more intelligent decisions
live and may be in a better situation than on a spouse or mate.
they were previously. Human trafficking perpetuates ignorance, as
Human Trafficking is a multi-billion dollar many trafficked children and adults do not
industry. attend school to improve their odds of gaining
merited employment, due to the restraints that
are imposed by traffickers.
Traffickers do not pay taxes, nor do the millions
of individuals who are trafficked.
12. Terminology
Brothel – A place where prostitutes meet to have sex with clients.
Bonded labor (debt bondage) – A practice in which employers give
high-interest loans to workers who then labor at low wages to pay off
debt (A member of the debtor’s family may also be required to work
towards payment of the debt).
Source country – A country that victims are trafficked from, i.e. the
former Soviet territories, Nepal, Nigeria, and Guatemala.
Transit country – A temporary stop, i.e. Mexico, on the trafficked
victim’s journey to the country where they will be enslaved.
Destination country – Where trafficked victims end up.
Sex tourism – Travel undertaken primarily or exclusively by men from
developed countries to usually third world countries where there are
a lack of restrictions on prostitution, and for the purpose of engaging
in sexual activity with often trafficked women and children.
13. Similar Forms of Human Exploitation
Quid pro quo harassment is similar to human trafficking in that the victim’s employment is predicated
upon whether or not they engage in an inappropriate (sexual) relationship with the perpetrator.
Domestic violence may contribute to human trafficking where the victim is subject to financial control,
including being prevented from gaining and/or retaining employment or from attending school to increase
their employability, and the victim’s sole method of survival is reliance upon the perpetrator and/or public
assistance.
The victim’s work performance, grades in school, and/or attendance or ability to sustain
employment may be affected by the perpetrator’s harassment and abuse.
Employment Blacklisting or Blackballing is a form of or may contribute to human trafficking where an
existing or former employer attempts to impede the employment of an individual in retaliation for
protected conduct and/or any other conduct that should not necessarily warrant prejudice against the
individual for other sought employment, or where the employer or former employer or any other individuals
involved actually profit, monetarily and/or otherwise, from the individual’s professional bondage.
14. Conduits
Law enforcement – The trafficking of humans in corrections systems is one of the most subtle and
common forms of the trade. It is fair to say, particularly in light of the disproportionate sentencing
and presence of especially African American minorities in prison who are often used to work for
little if any pay, that it has all of the makings of a sophisticated form of modern-day chattel slavery
continuing in America. Though the 13th Amendment does provide for involuntary servitude as
punishment for crime, there is no expressed legitimization of payment less than minimum wage for
even a working prisoner, who, if paid minimum wage, should reasonably be expected to pay their
share of living and other expenses, including health care premiums and income taxes, besides
stern savings requirements via authorized banks, all of which would feed forcefully into the
economy.
Social service agencies – Some social service agencies, like domestic violence and other shelters
and even the Department of Family & Children Services or employees of these agencies have
endorsed improprieties.
Organized religion – Christianity was and remains, with other forms of religion, namely Islam, a
catalyst of slavery involving especially women and children in America and abroad.
15. Legislation
• The 13th Amendment prohibits slavery and/or involuntary
servitude.
• The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of
2000 provides greater maximum sentences for traffickers,
and provides resources for protection of and assistance for
victims of trafficking…
• Human trafficking is a federal crime under Title 18 of the
United States Code, section 1584 making it a crime to force
a person to work against their will, whether by use or threat
of force or a “climate of fear” wherein individuals believe they
may be harmed by leaving or refusing to work.
17. An International Office of DFACS and Authority of Housing
The International Office of the Department of Family & Children Services and Authority
of Housing, which would be funded by the United Nations via its proportionate
collection of fees and/or taxes from all of its member nations, other synonymous
agencies, and private donors from every point of the globe, would provide basic living
necessities to individuals, families and children in crisis in developing and other nations
in need of such services, to include the following:
1. Emergency food
2. Clean water (for cooking, drinking, bathing, and clothes washing)
3. Health benefits (including birth control, dental services, etc.)
4. Emergency, transitional, and/or permanent housing
5. Clothing & toiletries
6. Employment services (primarily online and other outsourced opportunities, to
precede the proliferation of industry/local businesses that could provide traditional
employment, for which transportation accommodations would be made).
18. Solutions/Resources
Proportionate UN fee or tax collection from all member nations for the
purpose of global relief
Church and business resource pooling
Development of an International Department of Family & Children
Services
The globalization/proliferation of Job Corps Programs
The globalization/proliferation of Housing in Developing Nations
Proliferation of international residential education programs for
children
The World Bank
The globalization/proliferation of American and other businesses in
developing nations
Colleges & Universities
19. The College/University Student-Residence Solution
The college/university student-residence solution would entail the disbursement of a set number of full
scholarships that would cover tuition as well as room and board to trafficked victims who are high school
graduates or who have acquired General Equivalency Diplomas, and meet matriculation requirements to the
sponsoring colleges or universities.
There are well over 4,350 colleges in the United States alone, and over 17,000 colleges and universities in
the world, meaning that, if American colleges/universities sponsored/housed 10 trafficked victims each
year, 43,500 would be rescued, and, if every college/university in the world sponsored 10 trafficked victims
annually, 170,000 would be rescued.
Supplemental collegiate dormitories for low income and overflow students who may not be accommodated with
traditional campus housing due to space or slot limitations would help to shield many from distractions and
hardships that are cause that some especially female students are lured or forced or voluntarily resort to self-
exploitative practices, like stripping, etc. for the purpose of meeting school-related expenses. Each of these
students, or those who are classified as low income could be required to volunteer for no more than 20 hours per
week with designated companies or agencies, for the purpose of off-setting some of their expenses and receiving
a modest stipend and/or transportation assistance.
Supplemental dormitories would consist of full-service computer & printing labs, childcare (another issue
that stands in major need of address amongst low income students), and shuttles that would transport
students to and from campus throughout each school day.
20. The Globalization/Proliferation of Job Corps Programs
Residential job training programs like Job Corps could serve as a major vehicle of
resolve of the human trafficking dilemma, seeing particularly that many individuals
are lured by traffickers through promises of education and employment. Job Corps
is a free job training program that provides three meals a day, childcare, clothing
allotments, transportation, health services, pay, and job placement services to
underprivileged youth between the ages of 16 to 24 years old.
The program should be weaned of minors (16-17 year olds), however, which
comprise about 40% of its overall student population. These students should be
compelled to attend traditional public schools through graduation, or at least to
18 years of age, whichever comes first (Job Corps pays more than $30,000
annually for services to students, while the public school system pays roughly
$6,000 annually for student services). Weaning the program of minors would
clear about 40,000 slots across its existent 123 centers in the United States that
could be filled by trafficked victims. Job Corps should also service adults who are
older than 24 years of age who could benefit from their services.
21. Proliferation of Residential Programs for Children &
Families of School-age Children
The issue of homeless children/homeless families with school-age children is within the local and global jurisdiction of the
Departments of Education and Family & Children Services, and warrants the financial support of the United Nations, which has
the power to collect fees from each of its developed member nations for this and other purposes, including global
peacekeeping military initiatives that would alleviate the financial burdens of any lone or few nations endeavoring to be world
police. EVERY homeless child and capable parent(s) or guardian(s) of every homeless child within the United States and in
every nation of the world should be immediately accommodated with emergency housing, food, and other vital resources, and
then all other homeless persons, and for the ultimate purpose of providing means for these individuals to achieve self-
sufficiency through education and/or employment.
Under-enrolled schools would be utilized for the purpose of educating homeless children, many of whom have never
attended or have difficulty attending school due to the nature of their circumstances. Residential facilities would be
established for families with school-age children attending these particular schools within their respective school
zones/regions—a single facility would house students from multiple schools within the region of an under-enrolled
school that is utilized for the prescribed purpose. Parents/guardians participating in these programs would be
compelled to participate in career service initiatives in which they would conduct job searches and/or pursue
educational opportunities, and, once employed, will be required to pay rent. Any such residential facilities that
become under-used should be utilized to accommodate homeless families with school-age children from other
school districts, or even other states or countries.
22. The Globalization/Proliferation of Housing in
Developing Nations
The proliferation of housing in developing nations
Habitat for Humanity
23. The Globalization/Proliferation of American and other
Businesses in Developing Nations
Our developing nations should be viewed as opportunities to expand/grow American and
other businesses and wealth, while providing employment and other human resources to
poor and displaced persons around the globe.
The proliferation of American and other businesses and franchising opportunities in
developing nations will also provide a solid foundation and materials with which to build
native grown businesses within these historically impoverished/famished nations and
pioneer the ultimate industrialization of our entire world, and on *alternative/clean
energy sources that would not further contribute to the mounting climate crisis.
* What is termed alternative energy today (solar, etc.) should be the primary energy
source and traditional energy sources (fossil fuels, etc.) should be the alternative
(backup) for the sake of environmental healing; and the fossil fuel and oil industries
would be of the ideals to market solar and other forms of clean energy while tapping into
the greater wealth of the vast previously untapped markets of our developing nations.
24. Conclusion
Human trafficking is a silent epidemic essentially because of
laws forbidding it, the voicelessness of its victims due to fear,
poverty, and gender discrimination, and because of cover
tactics of traffickers.
Human trafficking destroys the moral fiber of the country and
world at large, and, though it is a multi-billion dollar industry, it
is a major attributor to the world’s financial crisis, as traffickers
and their millions of victims do not pay taxes, and victims, who
outnumber traffickers, do not typically support our consumer
markets, as they would if they were availed educational and
legitimate employment opportunities.
25. Not for Sale!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDHmhB
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26. Resources
Children of the Night, featured on the Dr. Phil Show, rescues and provides care for trafficked
children
Human trafficking search.net
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration Children and Family’s
Campaign to Rescue and Restore Victims of Human Trafficking is intended to identify and provide
resources to trafficked victims to live safely in the United States. It provides general trafficking
information and resources, like training and other tools, educational posters and brochures, fact
sheets for healthcare and social service providers and law enforcement officers, and assessment
cards for healthcare providers and law enforcement officers. http://www.acf.hhs.gov/trafficking
The U.S. Department of Justice provides information on how to report trafficking crimes, the
prosecution of traffickers, protection for victims, as well as information about the Trafficking in
Persons and Worker Exploitation Task Force, Prevention Through Outreach and Research, and U.S.
government-related trafficking web links. http://www.justice.gov/