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Posts Tagged ‘human trafficking’
Videos & Documentaries, Oct 24th, 2011,
Last night on CNN I watched a series of programs on human trafficking, a subject I’ve studied and posted about before. Simply put, human trafficking is slavery. Most slaves are children and women who are poor and vulnerable, but the victims of human trafficking can be anyone, regardless of class, location, age, gender or ethnicity. The illegal trade of human beings is a widespread, multibillion-dollar industry that most people know nothing or next to nothing about. Yet there are now more slaves than at any time in the history of the world. Human trafficking has insidiously inserted itself into the…
Tags: children, human trafficking, not my life, prostitution, slavery, women
Politics, Videos & Documentaries, Mar 20th, 2010,
About six years ago I took a summer course on migration at Lund University in Sweden. The classes were taught by a University of California professor and focused on the contemporary issues of global human smuggling and human trafficking. A brief distinction between the two: Human smuggling is a ‘victimless’ crime in which a migrant pays a smuggler to assist in the illegal passage across a political border. Human trafficking, on the other hand, is far more sinister. Human trafficking involves human victims who are coerced, tricked and/or forced by criminals to work in exploitative relationships in which the traffickers…
Tags: call, child, global, human trafficking, industry, labor, Lilja 4-ever, migration, response, sex, slavery, slaves, smuggling, trafficking, victim
