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Human Trafficking In America Is the Most Important Social Issue of Our Times
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Just what is innocentsatrisk.org trafficking?
Even though act of human trafficking has been going on for decades, it has only been a couple of years (2000) since the US Trafficking Protocol (the Palermo Protocol of 2000, an international legal agreement attached to the US) was established containing the initial internationally arranged definition of human trafficking with the understanding that it is the force, fraud, and coercion in one person to another that defines the essence of this crime.
People often tell me that they think human trafficking is moving people from one country to the next, and while that is clearly a section of what the act is really, the heart of the issue is the mental and emotional movement of a person by another. The U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) (created as a result of the UN Protocol) leaves out what to me is the most significant aspect of this is and therefore makes it more challenging to prove an incident in court against alleged traffickers.
The center of the U.N. Trafficking Protocol defines human trafficking as: the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or usage of force or other styles of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or advantages to achieve the consent of an individual having control over another person, for the intended purpose of exploitation.
The US-TVPA is weak and really should use in it the terminology in keeping with the U.N. Protocol because it further distinguishes that traffickers use deception, and abuse of power, or of a posture of vulnerability, when seeking their victims. Traffickers look for the vulnerable knowing how to deceive and manipulate them - the worst form of abduction - by causing someone to lose trust in those they should trust the most. It requires a lifetime to "re-program" anyone who has been manipulated this way.
Human trafficking should be placed at the top of the list of crucial social issues.
In current human trafficking advocacy circles, traditional methods of trafficking have already been the focus and prohibit real discovery in to the reality of why you have modern-day slavery. Poverty, homelessness, runaways, broken families, senior high school drop-out rates, pornography (mass media): each are stand-alone social issues that merit our time and attention. Each brings with them a different group of issues that demand attention from those people who are whole in our society. Yet when we look at human trafficking, we see many of these issues wrapped up in to the one almost like a domino effect. Each one of these issues is really a contributing factor to those areas fueling human trafficking. And, I dare say, each of these issues are due to one giant controlling america and manipulating our every move - greed. Traffickers not only search for vulnerable and at-risk youth, they target the male population to enlist them as buyers.
Even though act of human trafficking has been going on for decades, it has only been a couple of years (2000) since the US Trafficking Protocol (the Palermo Protocol of 2000, an international legal agreement attached to the US) was established containing the initial internationally arranged definition of human trafficking with the understanding that it is the force, fraud, and coercion in one person to another that defines the essence of this crime.
People often tell me that they think human trafficking is moving people from one country to the next, and while that is clearly a section of what the act is really, the heart of the issue is the mental and emotional movement of a person by another. The U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) (created as a result of the UN Protocol) leaves out what to me is the most significant aspect of this is and therefore makes it more challenging to prove an incident in court against alleged traffickers.
The center of the U.N. Trafficking Protocol defines human trafficking as: the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or usage of force or other styles of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or advantages to achieve the consent of an individual having control over another person, for the intended purpose of exploitation.
The US-TVPA is weak and really should use in it the terminology in keeping with the U.N. Protocol because it further distinguishes that traffickers use deception, and abuse of power, or of a posture of vulnerability, when seeking their victims. Traffickers look for the vulnerable knowing how to deceive and manipulate them - the worst form of abduction - by causing someone to lose trust in those they should trust the most. It requires a lifetime to "re-program" anyone who has been manipulated this way.
Human trafficking should be placed at the top of the list of crucial social issues.
In current human trafficking advocacy circles, traditional methods of trafficking have already been the focus and prohibit real discovery in to the reality of why you have modern-day slavery. Poverty, homelessness, runaways, broken families, senior high school drop-out rates, pornography (mass media): each are stand-alone social issues that merit our time and attention. Each brings with them a different group of issues that demand attention from those people who are whole in our society. Yet when we look at human trafficking, we see many of these issues wrapped up in to the one almost like a domino effect. Each one of these issues is really a contributing factor to those areas fueling human trafficking. And, I dare say, each of these issues are due to one giant controlling america and manipulating our every move - greed. Traffickers not only search for vulnerable and at-risk youth, they target the male population to enlist them as buyers.
