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Lindsey LudgerPenn State Hazleton
CAS 100 A October 12, 2009
Modern-Day Slavery
Did you know?
Overview• Slavery of our time• Reasons why people are trafficked• Trafficking in the United States• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z
1XCrka-5I
Slavery of our time
• Similar to traditional slavery• Definition: The recruitment,
harboring, transporting, provision or obtaining of a person for the purpose of exploitation or labor.
• Involves force, fraud, or coercion. Victims are often kidnapped, sold, threatened, beaten, raped, tortured or drugged.
• “White Slave Traffic”
Reasons for Trafficking2 most common reasons why people traffic are…
• Sexual Exploitation• Labor and Profit
Sexual exploitation
• Victims are often lured, kidnapped, or forced into the slave trade. They can be coerced by lover boys, forced marriages, babysitting jobs, etc.
• Market Demand: The demand for sex has increased due to pornography, propaganda, etc, but especially from male sex buyers. This creates profit incentive to entrap more victims.
• According to the UNODC (United Nations office of Drugs and Crimes, women are the most frequent victims, followed by girls, boys, then men.
Labor and Profit
• Profit and Economic promise: greatest underlying cause for why they are trafficked.
• Deceive and manipulate families into letting their children go.
• Forced into indentured servitude/debt bondage.
• Employers use forced labor knowingly and unknowingly to maximize profits.
Trafficking in the United States
• One of the Largest destination countries, approximately 56%, used for sex trade.
• Among the highest of reported cases according to the UNODC.
• Those exploited for labor are often found in sweat shops, or homes (approx. 170,000)
• Other victims: some born and raised in the U.S. find themselves pressed into servitude by fraudulent or deceptive means.
• Some drugged, and lured into prostitution.
Efforts to reduce trafficking…
• U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.
• Protect act 2003• “t Visa”• 33 States now have anti-trafficking laws,
and prostitution is illegal in every state except Nevada.
• Sept. 2008, New York passed the countries first law recognizing prostituted minors as victims.
Recap
• Human trafficking is modern-day slavery
• The 2 most common reasons why people are trafficked are for sexual exploitation and labor and profit.
• Human trafficking occurs in the United States more often than people think.
Look Beneath The Surface…
Q &A
If you have any questions you can email me at [email protected]
Or visit these sites:www.humantrafficking.orgwww.EndHumanTrafficking.org www.ChildrenoftheNight.org
Sources
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z1XCrka-5I
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