Slavery still exists in the modern world. In 2001, the FBI estimated that 700,000 women and children were sold to slavery, UNICEF estimated 1.75 million, and the UN estimated 1 million (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/slaves/etc/stats.html). These figures vary widely since everything is done secretly and unlawfully, so it is difficult to come up with numbers.
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Unicef estimates that a person is trafficked every 2 seconds worldwide.
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. Department of Justice estimates that there are 200,000 U.S. citizens, mainly children and young women, who are at high risk of being trafficked throughout the U.S for sexual purposes.
*Lexie
Sabah will set up a safe house for foreign women who are victims human trafficking and domestic abuse. (http://www.humantrafficking.org/updates/870)
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Police Break Up Group Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation in Europe
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Approximately 600,000 to 800,000 victims annually are trafficked across international borders worldwide, according to the U.S. Department of State.
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According to some estimates, approximately 80% of trafficking involves sexual exploitation, and 19% involves labor exploitation.
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Safe House to be Established for Victims of Human Trafficking in Sabah, Malaysia
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it has been revealed that children in Malawi are forced to work in the tobacco industry and are being exposed to extreme levels of nicotine poisoning.
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jenna
Sullivan2133 said, "Police Break Up Group Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation in Europe
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Good job by the police
safe houses would be a good idea...jenna posted somethin about that
ReplyDeleteadam said approximately 80% of trafficking involves sexual exploitation.. thats disgusting and awful.
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ReplyDelete-Malaysia has accused the United States of unfair treatment over its decision to re-list the country on a human trafficking blacklist.
ReplyDelete-The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report on 170 countries is the most comprehensive worldwide report on the efforts of governments to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons.
http://www.humantrafficking.org/updates/archive/2
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ReplyDeleteToday, we are at a crucial moment in the fight against human trafficking: the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies is about to decide whether or not to provide $15 million for services for survivors of human trafficking.
ReplyDeleteThe United States Department of Labor has released a list of products imported into the United States that are likely tainted by forced labor or child labor.
ReplyDeleteEvery 60 Seconds someone in the world is a victim of Human Trafficking
ReplyDelete1.Barbados is the latest Caribbean country to defend itself against allegations that it isn't doing enough to prevent human trafficking.
ReplyDelete2.Malaysian enforcement agencies are committed in addressing human trafficking by tightening surveillance and checks on travellers, said Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan
http://www.humantrafficking.org/
ReplyDelete-It is estimated that 14,500 to 17,500 people, mostly women and children, are trafficked to the U.S. annually
ReplyDelete-U.S. embassies worldwide now routinely monitor and report cases of trafficking in men, women, and children for all forms of forced labor, including agriculture, domestic service, construction work, and sweatshops, as well as trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation.
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1.In parts of Ghana, a family may be punished for an offense by having to turn over a virgin female to serve as a sex slave within the offended family. that stinks..
ReplyDelete2.Unlike drugs or arms, people can be "sold" many times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking
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ReplyDelete*Malaysian enforcement agencies are committed in addressing human trafficking by tightening surveillance and checks on travellers
I'm glad their doing something to prevent it
In 1994 the United States started monitoring human trafficking and also passed some laws against it, but it still exists in the United States and many other countries.
ReplyDelete1. Singapore is a place for women and girls who are trafficked from Thailand
ReplyDelete2. Some women voluntarily migrate to Singapore to work as prostitutes.
http://www.humantrafficking.org/countries/singapore
- Kelsey W.
What is mer? :)
ReplyDeleteThere Are An Estimated 27 Million People Trapped In Slavery At This Moment
ReplyDeletehttp://doctorsatwar.org/human-trafficking-facts.php
ReplyDeleteApproximately 20,000 Individuals Are Trafficked INTO The United States From Other Countries Every Year.
It is terrible that children are forced to work at tobacco industries, and are exposed to extreme levels of nicotine poisoning
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ReplyDelete"In 1994 the United States started monitoring human trafficking and also passed some laws against it.."
I think its good that the U.S. is trying to do something to prevent human trafficking.
- Kelsey W.
A number of women and girls from Burma, Cambodia, and Vietnam transit through Thailand's southern border to Malaysia for sexual exploitation primarily in Johor Bahru, across from Singapore. 5 Anecdotal evidence also points to an increase in trafficking of foreign migrants for sexual exploitation.
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Kelsey W's post is intresting cuz mine talks of the same thing but i didnt know they were willing to go
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, has created guidelines for federal officials to recognize situations of trafficking, as the situations are usually extremely complex
ReplyDeletehttp://www.humantrafficking.org/countries/united_states_of_america/helplines
Bales estimates some 27 million people labor as slaves today
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/9/the_slave_next_door_human_trafficking#
There are still many countries who enforce slavery, like Argentina, Armenia, and Costa Rica. These countries are on the Tier watch list, which means they do not follow the minimum standards of trafficking.
ReplyDelete"Tier 2 Watch List countries do not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but are making significant efforts to do so, and meet one of the following criteria:
1. they display high or significantly increasing number of victims,
2. they have failed to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking in persons, or,
3. they have committed to take action over the next year.
Tier 3 countries neither satisfy the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking nor demonstrate a significant effort to do so. Countries in this tier are subject to potential non-humanitarian and non-trade sanctions."
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/print_2196.html
-Stephanie Bruno.
theres a movie about Human Traffiking called "Taken"
ReplyDelete-Trafficking in persons, as defined by the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act (VTVPA) of 2000, is the recruitment, smuggling,transporting, harboring, buying or selling of a human through force, threats, fraud, deception, or coercion for the purposes of exploitation.
ReplyDelete-A study done in Thailand found that 60-70% of child prostitutes are HIV POSITIVE.
http://www.nowpublic.com
-Billy Sullivan's comment was very insightful!
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Victims of human trafficking are subjected to force, fraud, or coercion, for the purpose of sexual exploitation or forced labor.
ReplyDeleteapproximately 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders each year; about 14,500-17,500 of them into the United States.
http://www.usccb.org/mrs/traffickingweb.shtml
mrteddy800, that's a good movie
http://www.actioncenter.polarisproject.org
ReplyDelete_Human trafficking is a brutal crime of which both US citizens and foreign nationals in the U.S. are victimized.
_In the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) of 2008, Congress authorized tens of millions of dollars to fund services for U.S. citizen and foreign national victims of human trafficking in the U.S.
As much as we would like to believe that slavery and human trafficking are only horrific aspects of our collective past, these tremendous abuses of human rights and human dignity have in some form continued to exist throughout the world and, in fact, are experiencing a dramatic resurgence in recent years.(http://crs.org/public-policy/trafficking.cfm?utm_source=google-grant&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=human-trafficking)
ReplyDeleteReferring to Shelbi's comment, Human traffiking is a brutal thing and needs to be stopped.
1) In Greece, women who are recognised as 'victims of trafficking' are offered a period of only one month to decide whether to testify against suspected traffickers.
ReplyDelete2)Trafficking of persons exists in two distinct types: labor trafficking and sexual trafficking. "This new distinction avoids the problem of combining into a single category both labor violations and violations that are more akin to a forcible sexual assault.”
human trafficking hurts and kills many
ReplyDeletea known location is viet kong
Individuals under the age 18, make up half of the total number of humans being trafficked.
ReplyDeleteWomen and children are still the favored target of human trafficking each year. They comprise 80% of the total number of people being trafficked.
mrteddy800 said: "theres a movie about Human Traffiking called "Taken"
lets watch it!
i think that it is rong the way that they put the people in the containers
ReplyDeleteit aint right to packege people into trucks
ReplyDelete1.Within and across borders in Europe, children are trafficked into a variety of exploitative situations, violating their human rights and threatening their survival and development.
ReplyDelete2.Chinese women and children are trafficked for sexual and labor exploitation in Malaysia, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Europe, Canada, Japan, Italy, Burma, Singapore, South Africa, and Taiwan. Many Chinese are recruited by false promises of employment and are later coerced into prostitution or forced labor.
http://www.humantrafficking.org/
www.humantrafficing.org htp:en.wikipedia.org/human-trafficking sexual exploitation is a major reason for women. cheap labor is another reason. x3jso9-safe houses are a good idea
ReplyDeleteHere are a few facts about human trafficking:
ReplyDelete1)The average cost of a slave around the world in $90.
2) Trafficking primarily involves exploitation which comes in many forms, including:
*Forcing victims into prostitution
*Subjecting victims to slavery or involuntary servitude
*Compelling victims to commit sex acts for the purpose of creating pornography
*Misleading victims into debt bondage
3) According to some estimates, approximately 80% of trafficking involves sexual exploitation, and 19% involves labor exploitation.
4) It is estimated that there are approximately 27 million slaves around the world.
5) Between 2001 and 2005, 140 defendants have been convicted of human trafficking in the U.S. which is a 109% increase from 1996-2000.
6) Around half of trafficking victims in the world are under the age of 18.
7) More than 2/3 of sex trafficked children suffer additional abuse at the hands of their traffickers.
8) Trafficked children are significantly more likely to develop mental health problems, abuse substances, engage in prostitution as adults, and either commit or be victimized by violent crimes later in life.
9) Women who have been trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation experience a significantly higher rate of HIV and other STDs, tuberculosis, and permanent damage to their reproductive systems.
10) There is only one shelter in the U.S. designed specifically to meet the needs of trafficking victims, and it currently only houses a total of seven to nine victims.
11) Trafficking victims normally don't get help because they think that they or their families will be hurt by their traffickers, or that they will be deported.
http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-human-trafficking
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Shelby Wagener
http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/08/harrowing-child-sex-trafficking/
ReplyDeletemany children are getting involved and its not good
-Malaysia has accused the United States of unfair treatment over its decision to re-list the country on a human trafficking blacklist.
ReplyDeleteThe Government of Thailand reported 88 arrests in cases brought against traffickers in the period from September 2005 through February 2007, involving a total of 100 victims. No public officials or law enforcement officials were arrested for being complicit in trafficking in 2006.
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There are groups of traffickers (don't know if it's a word, don't care)who are sick and perverted and desperate enough to go into schools and hold the teachers at gunpoint while they take the kids (think kindergarten or preschool) and then exploit them in as many ways as they can, just to get some money or drugs. That's another reason not to do drugs, by paying for the drugs, you could be supporting these !#$%^&^$#E$%&%$!!!
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ReplyDelete27 million ppl r trapped in slavery
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ReplyDeleteAs part of its mandate to strengthen research, UNESCO is conducting a literature review and meta-analysis of existing statements on trafficking. UNESCO is tracing the origin of numbers cited by various sources, attempting to ascertain the methodology by which these numbers were calculated, and evaluating their validity. The aim is to clarify the bases on which estimates of the numbers of trafficked persons are derived, and to separate trafficking myths from trafficking realities.
When it comes to statistics, trafficking of girls and women is one of several highly emotive issues which seem to overwhelm critical faculties. Numbers take on a life of their own, gaining acceptance through repetition, often with little inquiry into their derivations. Journalists, bowing to the pressures of editors, demand numbers, any number. Organizations feel compelled to supply them, lending false precisions and spurious authority to many reports.
Africa is the number one country for slavery and human trafficking. Rebel groups in Africa kidnap people everyday to help fight their cause.
ReplyDeleteChina is the second most country popular for human trafficking. Chinese women and children are kidnapped and sold throughout markets all over the world.
millions of people whore themselves like common hookers
ReplyDeleteApproximately 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders each year; about 14,500-17,500 of them into the United States.
ReplyDeletepeople should not be sold as slaves it is not right and they have to be sold like their an object that is not rite
ReplyDeletethe human trafficing is bad
ReplyDeleteselling hookas is a terrible crime thousands of innocent girls are tacken away from there homes every year
ReplyDeleteBarbados is the latest Caribbean country to defend itself against allegations that it isn't doing enough to prevent human trafficking. Malaysian enforcement agencies are committed in addressing human trafficking by tightening surveillance and checks on travellers, said Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan
ReplyDeleteScience and Related Agencies is about to decide whether or not to provide $15 million for services for survivors of human trafficking.
ReplyDeleteits not rite
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. Department of Justice estimates that there are 200,000 U.S. citizens, mainly children and young women, who are at high risk of being trafficked throughout the U.S for sexual purposes.
ReplyDeleteApproximately 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders each year; about 14,500-17,500 of them into the United States.