Modern day slavery in our midst: Human Trafficking

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Modern day slavery in our midst Human Trafficking
Brandon Singh, Santiago Agudelo, Desiree
Soto Mrs. Silva English11-Period4
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What is Human Trafficking?

• Human Trafficking a modern form of slavery is
  the illegal trade of buying and selling of people
  for various reasons such as sexual exploitation
  and forced labor.

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Where Does Human Trafficking Happen? Who Does It
Affect?

• The Human Trafficking network spans worldwide.
• This illegal trade has various victims, but the
  majority are Eastern European, Asian and African.
  
• Popular destinations for trafficked victims are
  Brazil, Australia, Netherlands, Cambodia, France,
  India, Nigeria, Israel, Japan, Saudi Arabia,
  United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and the
  United states.

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Think Human Trafficking is rare in the US? Think
Again.
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Facts and Statistics about Human Trafficking

• Human trafficking has tied with the selling of
  arms for second in the top three illegal
  trafficked items in the world
• The United Nations Office on drugs and crimes
  given percentage breaks on trafficked persons-
  Men12 Women66 Children22
• Human trafficking statistics 2010 indicate that
  as many as over 700,00women and children (girls
  and boys) have been trafficked into the us from
  all over the world since the year 2000
• The Global Human Trafficking industry pulls in
  31.6 billion USD yearly and numbers still rise
• Most of the time the recruiter is familiar with
  the victim they can be family friends neighbors
  or family members
• The ratio of trafficked to convicted is 8001
• 55 of men and 45 of women are recruiters

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How Do Recruiters Pull in Victims?

• Victims are promised jobs opportunities in
  another country.
• Offered possible husbands or wives in order for a
  better life.
• Some poor families sell their children into
  prostitution for a significant amount of money.
• Other victims are just taken.

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Why Dont They Try to Escape?

• Physical force is used to keep victims in line.
• Many are forced to take drugs and become
  dependant on the trafficker for their fix.
• Victims are told if they try attempt to get help
  the their families, loved ones, etc will be
  killed.

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Interview with a victim Ina

• "I was working, cleaning dishes in someone's
  house. Then I noticed a woman and man following
  me around. They asked me why I would want to
  spend the rest of my life working here if I were
  so pretty. They took me to a café and drugged my
  food, they then took me to Delhi and told me that
  in less than a month I would be making more than
  Rs. 100,000. At first I thought I was going to be
  a housebuilding assistant and agreed to do the
  job. I was taken to the railway station and then
  taken to another part of Delhi. There was a woman
  waiting for me at the railway station. That woman
  took me away. The woman's husband then raped me.
  I was then taken to a red light area and forced
  to work. I got pregnant. I was forced to take
  heroin, beer and other strong alcoholic drinks.
  The brothel owners used to beat and torture us
  mercilessly. One time, a new girl had come to the
  brothel, I told her she should leave and
  described what they did to us. The girl tried to
  leave. But when the owner found out what I had
  told the girl, he beat me and kept me in a box
  for a whole night and day. The box was so small
  that I couldn't even sit up properly in it. Soon
  after, I was arrested by the police and taken to
  jail for one month, but I was told by a
  policewoman, who was hand-in-glove with the
  brothel owners, that I was better off back at the
  brothel and should go back because I would just
  suffer and die in prison. I was told I would be
  paid all the money I have earned when I got back
  to the brothel. I was then sent back to the
  brothel by means of the policewoman who, at the
  time, was claiming to be my mother.
• Ina, 12 Year Old Victim of Human Trafficking

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Example of a Victim Alena P.

• Alena P. was a dancer and performer in Russia.
  She came to the United States on a visa for
  cultural performances to work in a theater
  troupe. When she arrived, she was taken to an
  apartment in New Jersey and told that she was to
  work as a stripper to pay off the debt that she
  accrued from coming to the United States. She was
  physically threatened and her passport was
  confiscated. She worked for almost a year, only
  receiving about 50 a week that she had to use to
  pay for meals. Every day, her traffickers picked
  her up from an apartment, which she shared with
  other young women who also worked at the strip
  club, and brought her directly to work. She was
  not told how long she had to work there to pay
  off her debt. The total amount that she owed was
  not clear either because her traffickers deducted
  rent, transportation, and costume fees from her
  income. One day, one of her roommates ran away,
  escaping from the apartment through a window, and
  went to the police. Her traffickers were
  arrested. Alena cooperated in the investigation
  of her traffickers, who were successfully
  prosecuted. She now has a T visa, is married, and
  is the mother of a young son.

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What's Being Done about Human Trafficking?

• Most of the World uses Awareness Campaigns to
  prevent human trafficking.
• The Philippine organization, GABRIELA, uses their
  campaigns to prevent human trafficking.
• In Thailand they educate the women to prevent
  them from being forced into slavery because of
  outside pressure and a lack of education.
• The World Health Organization and other global
  groups work with local and national law
  enforcement to prevent and end trafficking rings.
  

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One Countrys Response The Ukraine is NOT a
Brothel

• In eastern Europe a group known as FEMMEN is a
  group of women that fight against human
  trafficking in Ukraine.
• One of their recent concerns on the issue is
  Ukraine is holding the 2011 Euro soccer cup and
  FEMMEN fear that visitors will not only come to
  see the games but the illegal brothels in Ukraine
  as well.
• The European Union, Soccer Organizations and
  local authorities have teamed up to prevent human
  trafficking during the event.

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Works Cited

• Understanding Human Trafficking. The Spearhead.
  Web. 3 September 2010. 11 February 2011.
• Brothels as Prisons. Human Rights Now
  Organization. Web. 22 December 2008. 12 February
  2011.
• Human Trafficking. Wikipedia.org. Web. 12
  February 2011.
• Human Slavery Facts and Figures. World Health
  Organization. Web. 12 January 2010. 15 February
  2011.