Quiz Time!

1. Human trafficking includes all of the following except:

• A. Humans driving vehicles through busy traffic on the streets of major metropolitan cities.

• B. Selling human beings into slavery.• C. Transporting illegal immigrants across

national borders for money.• D. Buying and selling people for any reason.

2. What are the three most profitable forms of crime worldwide?

• A. Murder, Burglary, Arson• B. Selling Drugs, Weapons, and People• C. Jay-walking, Vandalism, Assault• D. Embezzlement, Illegal Immigration, Slander

For the next seven questions, use context to choose the answer that

best defines the highlighted word in each phrase.

Do not use your dictionary, translator, phone, etc!

3. It is indeed big business. Human trafficking is one of the most lucrative

forms of crime worldwide.A.DangerousB.ProfitableC.IllegalD.Evil

4. Every year, thousands of migrants are kidnapped, threatened or assaulted by

members of criminal gangs

• A. Attacked• B. Angered• C. Sold• D. Drugged

5. Experts note that these are only the migrants who get caught, and that many --

even most -- are not apprehended.• A. Sold• B. Attacked• C. Captured• D. Punished

6. They will abduct the migrants and hold them for ransom from their relatives and friends in the United States or family back

home. • A. keep them prisoner until money is paid

• B. tickle them until they cry and scream• C. force them to work as slaves• D. make them miss their relatives

7. A bloody turf war between the Zetas and the Gulf cartels also may have complicated matters because the smugglers may not have known who to pay or may have paid one group and angered the other.

• A. a Mexican game similar to baseball• B. an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico• C. a fight between two rival gangs• D. an illegal smuggling operation

8. For the parents of Mario Santos, the Salvadoran who disappeared 10 years ago, much of the anguish

lies in not knowing what happened.

• A. pain and suffering• B. waiting patiently• C. harmonious lifestyle• D. lies and mischief

9. migrants who are abducted are subjected to sexual or labor exploitation.

A. Killing other people with explosives B. Taking unfair advantage of other peopleC. Selling your ex-wife into slaveryD. transporting migrant workers

10. Human smuggling…

• A. is a $15-$20 billion business in Mexico.• B. only happens in Mexico and Cambodia.• C. is legal in the United States since 1859.• D. is no longer a problem in the modern

world.

Human Trafficking

Woman Rescues Nepalese Girls from Slavery with Piglet Plan

By giving poor Nepalese families piglets to raise, Olga Murray has saved thousands of young girls from being

forced into slavery.By Kathryn Hawkins. Posted on July 31 2008

Olga Murray, a woman from Sausalito, California, had been volunteering in Nepal for five years before she found out a horrifying fact about a nearby region: In southern Dang, poor farmers would sell their daughters as slaves to rich families, at a cost of $35 to $75. The families believed they had no alternative - without selling their daughters, they’d be unable to feed the rest of their families, and they would all starve to death. Nonetheless, Murray knew there had to be a better choice.

“These girls are 7, 8, 9 and 10, and no one was checking up on them,” Murray, now 83, told the San Francisco Chronicle. “I was shocked.”

Murray quickly brainstormed a solution to keep girls safe at home. She knew that pork was a highly prized meat in the Nepalese community, and that a fully-grown pig could fetch the same price as one of the young girls at a market.

So, in 1989, she began going door to door visiting the poor farmers, offering them free piglets in exchange for keeping their daughters at home. By feeding and raising the piglets to full-grown pigs, the farmers would be able to sell the animals for meat at the annual Maghe Sakranti Festival, rather than selling their daughters into servitude. To sweeten the deal, she also offered to pay for the girls’ education through her nonprofit group, the Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation, and even threw in a kerosene lamp and 2 liters of kerosene each month - rare commodities in areas without electricity.

The outcome wasn’t entirely positive, but out of the 37 Nepalese families she approached that first year, 32 took the deal. In the 19 years since, Murray and her nonprofit organization have made the same offer every year to poor farmers in southern Deng, and the local practice of selling girls into slavery has almost disappeared as a result: More than 3,000 girls have been given the opportunity to remain at home with their families, thanks to her ingenious plan. And thanks to her gift of education, many of these girls are flourishing.

“The local schools are full of former kamlaris (girl slaves), and the size of the classrooms are swollen, and girls are outnumbering boys,” Murray’s business partner, Som Paneru, wrote in an e-mail to the Chronicle. “We’ve already built over 35 new classrooms, but the need is still not fully met.”

Many of these former slaves, empowered by their education, have taken roles of activists, speaking out against the tradition of indentured servitude, fighting to make sure that their younger sisters remain free.

“At rallies, or on the radio, they promise out loud that their little sisters will never, ever go through what they did, and that’s when you hear them start to cry,” said Murray.

A Sex Slave at Three Years Old Posted in social justice by Marisa Banas on 7/1/2009

Romanian Jailed for Trafficking and Rape in the U.K.

A ROMANIAN man, who raped a teenager and forced her to work as a prostitute, after luring her into the UK with the promise of a better life, was found guilty on Friday 11 June at Southwark Crown Court of a string of offences.

28 year-old Cezar Livius Murariu was found guilty of one count of rape and two counts of controlling prostitution for gain. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and placed on the sex offenders register for life.

During the trial, the court heard how 18-year-old "Natalya" was lured from her hometown in Northern Romania to the UK by Murariu, who claimed she could work legitimately and start a new life in London.

Natalya met Murariu in the summer of 2009 in Northern Romania. She socialised with him and they became friends, so he could gain her trust. In June 2009 Murariu invited her to the UK. He bought the bus ticket as a "gift" for her, and they travelled together from Romania to London.

Three days into the trip she was raped, by the man she had trusted, then she was taken to a separate property in the same street, where Murariu grabbed her by the throat and raped her. She screamed as loudly as she could but was told to keep quiet or risk further violence. She was forced to have unprotected sex with Murariu. Natalya was still a virgin at the time of the assault.

Murariu forced her into prostitution, selling her body for sex to repay the debt for transporting her to the UK. She was threatened by Murariu; he insisted that if she did not perform sexual acts for money, he would lie to her family, claiming she was uncontrollable, working as a prostitute out of choice.

Her sexual services were offered to paying clients at £40 a time. She was not allowed to talk to clients, and would have to sleep with up to five men in any one day.

At 10:30hrs on 31 July 2009 officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's former Human Trafficking Team and Operation Golf - a joint investigation team with Romanian police - mounted a fast incident response to rescue the young woman.

The police rescued Natalya within 48 hours of being contacted by the family, who had raised the alarm that she was in trouble.

Natalya had managed to send text messages to her family, which they passed on to the Romanian officer on Operation Golf, to get help. The officer acted quickly, co-ordinating with colleagues in London. Working with the family, officers instructed her to send over a number plate of a vehicle in the vicinity of where she was being held. This then helped pinpoint the location, so they could rescue her.

Two days later, Natalya was rescued from the local park, where she was made to exercise to keep in shape for their clients. Officers surrounded the park to secure the area, then rescued Natalya and took her to a safe location.

DS Roddy Llewellyn from Operation Golf, said: "This vulnerable young European woman has been lured over to the UK, under the false promise of legitimate work and financial gain. She found herself being sold for sex. We work tirelessly both home and abroad to catch these criminals, to stop the exploitation of these young women."

Officers said that she was visibly afraid when rescued from the scene and grateful that she had finally been saved. Natalya had a number of missed calls on her phone from Murariu, who had been frantically searching for her.

Murariu was later arrested by officers from the team, in the vicinity of the residence, actively searching for Natalya.

DS Roddy Llewellyn from Operation Golf, said: "This vulnerable young European woman has been lured over to the UK, under the false promise of legitimate work and financial gain. She found herself being sold for sex. We work tirelessly both home and abroad to catch these criminals, to stop the exploitation of these young women."

Judge HHJ Price told Murariu: "An aggravating feature of this case was the abuse of trust the victim. You are a highly controlling individual who represents a threat to this country”

The Resiliency of Trafficked Children: Cambodia vs. the West

by Michelle Brock on July 16, 2010

• When HFTS was making its documentary about sex trafficking in Canada, we met and interviewed a man named Brian McConaghy who runs an organization called the Ratanak Foundation. Ratanak works in Cambodia with child victims of sex trafficking, and several kids have been rescued and put into Ratanak’s safe houses to receive counselling, love, and skills to build new lives. The first sex tourist to be convicted in Canada, Donald Bakker, abused 7 little girls when he was in Cambodia, and video-taped himself in the process. 6 of the 7 girls have since been rescued out of the trade and put into Ratanak’s safe house. They have grown into beautiful young women with a passion and a zest for life. A picture of hope.

When we asked Brian about the recovery process for these Cambodian kids, he has this to say:

“These kids are extremely resilient. They have been brought up in a culture and environment that tells them they are worthless. So when someone rescues them out of a life a slavery and abuse, they all of a sudden feel worth, thinking, ’someone cares about me enough to come rescue me, therefore I must be worth something.’”

Brian is not saying that a lot of trauma has to be worked through, which is difficult and painful. But their attitude helps in the healing process. On the other hand, in Western countries where everyone has “rights” and knows about those rights, girls who are violated (whether they are raped once or sold commercially), have a much more difficult time resuming a life of purpose and meaning after they are rescued. Instead of the thought being, “someone rescued me so I have worth,” the thought pattern is more likely to be “someone violated my rights and my body, so I must not have worth.”

Therefore it is crucial that cultural attitudes and norms are taken into consideration when dealing with rescued victims of sex trafficking and exploitation. Approaches that work in Cambodia may not work in North America, and vice versa. Brian and his team have done their best to understand Cambodia’s social, political, and cultural climate so that their work is effective, and we would all do well to follow their lead.

Flight Attendants Are First Line of Defense Against Human Trafficking

Video news reel

BBC reports on human trafficking

Documentary:

• http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTIwNzM5NTg0.html

• http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/UzwkTDClKoM/

Homework:

Read news articles in English that interest you, and come to class prepared to talk

about them next week.

• 乌克兰 （敖德萨） Ukraine (Odessa)• 摩尔多瓦 Moldova• 土耳其（伊斯坦布尔） Turkey (Istanbul)• 强奸 Rape• 拐卖人口 Human Trafficking• 皮条客 Pimp• 卧底 Undercover agent• 二道贩子 Middle man

Questions from the Documentary

• 1) Where do the sex traffickers find the women they traffic?

• Where do they send them to?• Who is the man in the documentary and what

is his objective?• Who is Katia sold to?• What does the man do to find his wife?• How does he end up getting his wife back?