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Human Trafficking In America Is the MOST SIGNIFICANT Social Issue of Our Times
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Just what is human trafficking?
Even though act of human trafficking has been going on for decades, it has only been a couple of years (2000) since the United Nations Trafficking Protocol (the Palermo Protocol of 2000, a global legal agreement attached to the United Nations) was established containing the first internationally agreed upon definition of human trafficking with the knowing that it's the force, fraud, and coercion in one person to another that defines the essence of this crime.
People often tell me they think human trafficking is moving folks from one country to another, and while that is clearly a part of what the act is really, the heart of the issue is the mental and emotional movement of an individual by another. The U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) (created due to the UN Protocol) leaves out what to me is the most important aspect of this is and therefore helps it be more challenging to prove a case in court against alleged traffickers.
The heart of the U.N. Trafficking Protocol defines human trafficking as: the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by way of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a posture of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of an individual having control over another person, for the intended purpose of exploitation.
The US-TVPA is weak and should use in it the terminology consistent 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 search for the vulnerable knowing how to deceive and manipulate them - the worst type of abduction - by causing one to lose trust in those they ought to trust the most. It requires an eternity to "re-program" anyone who has been manipulated in this manner.
Human trafficking should be placed near the top of the set of crucial social issues.
In current human trafficking advocacy circles, traditional methods of trafficking have been the focus and prohibit real discovery in to the reality of what is causing modern-day slavery. Poverty, homelessness, runaways, broken families, senior high school drop-out rates, pornography (media): each are stand-alone social issues that merit our time and attention. Each brings using them a different set of problems that demand attention from those people who are whole inside our society. Yet when we look at human trafficking, we see most of these issues wrapped up in to the one almost just like a domino effect. innocentsatrisk.org of these issues is a contributing factor to those areas fueling human trafficking. And, I dare say, each of these issues are due to one giant controlling the United States and manipulating our every move - greed. Traffickers not merely look 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 United Nations Trafficking Protocol (the Palermo Protocol of 2000, a global legal agreement attached to the United Nations) was established containing the first internationally agreed upon definition of human trafficking with the knowing that it's the force, fraud, and coercion in one person to another that defines the essence of this crime.
People often tell me they think human trafficking is moving folks from one country to another, and while that is clearly a part of what the act is really, the heart of the issue is the mental and emotional movement of an individual by another. The U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) (created due to the UN Protocol) leaves out what to me is the most important aspect of this is and therefore helps it be more challenging to prove a case in court against alleged traffickers.
The heart of the U.N. Trafficking Protocol defines human trafficking as: the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by way of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a posture of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of an individual having control over another person, for the intended purpose of exploitation.
The US-TVPA is weak and should use in it the terminology consistent 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 search for the vulnerable knowing how to deceive and manipulate them - the worst type of abduction - by causing one to lose trust in those they ought to trust the most. It requires an eternity to "re-program" anyone who has been manipulated in this manner.
Human trafficking should be placed near the top of the set of crucial social issues.
In current human trafficking advocacy circles, traditional methods of trafficking have been the focus and prohibit real discovery in to the reality of what is causing modern-day slavery. Poverty, homelessness, runaways, broken families, senior high school drop-out rates, pornography (media): each are stand-alone social issues that merit our time and attention. Each brings using them a different set of problems that demand attention from those people who are whole inside our society. Yet when we look at human trafficking, we see most of these issues wrapped up in to the one almost just like a domino effect. innocentsatrisk.org of these issues is a contributing factor to those areas fueling human trafficking. And, I dare say, each of these issues are due to one giant controlling the United States and manipulating our every move - greed. Traffickers not merely look for vulnerable and at-risk youth, they target the male population to enlist them as buyers.
