Human Trafficking

1. Human Trafficking Coalition Against Sex Trafficking

2. U.N. Definition: (Protocol to Prevent Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Person, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime) • (a) "Trafficking in persons" shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means 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 position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. • Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery of practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs; • (b) The consent of a victim of trafficking in persons to the intended exploitation set forth in subparagraph (a) of this article shall be irrelevant where any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) have been used; • (c) The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation shall be considered "trafficking in persons" even if this does not involve any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) of this article; • (d) "Child" shall mean any person under eighteen years of age.

3. Terms related to Trafficking • Coercion • John • Pimp • Natasha • Sex Tourism • Debt Bondage • Sex Slave • Sex Worker

4. Trafficking Estimates

5. Destination

6. From Home to Brothel • Parents sell children • Women leave for family • Females lured by agents • Females convinced by other females • Force • Push-Pull Factors

7. International Law • International Agreement for the Suppression of White Slave Traffic • International Convention for Suppression of White Slave Traffic • International Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Women and Children 1933 International Convention on the Suppression of Traffic in Women of Full Age 1949 Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child • Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children Source: The American Society for International Law

8. Sex Tourism • The Rise of Sex Tourism • After WWII • Publications • Websites • Misconceptions • Rising Foreign Demand galvanizes the need for more women. • Sometimes, the customer does not know that the women are trafficked, some advertisements even deceptively state that they don’t have any trafficked women. • Advertisement No money… No Honey

9. Organizations in NC • Triad Latter of HOPE Ministries • grassroots, faith base, non profit, non governmental organization • Affiliations: Dept of Health and Human Services Rescue and Restore Campaign. A National Christian Women's Job Corps Site • http://web.northstate.net/~sandratrustgod/TLH/index.htm • World Relief • Mission: Empowering the local Church to serve the most vulnerable • Vision: In community with the local Church, World Relief envisions the most vulnerable people transformed economically, socially, and spiritually. • Volunteer and internship positions with World Relief are unpaid and range in duration from two months to two years • http://community.wr.org/Page.aspx?pid=1964 • Jubilee • Mission: 1)partner with local groups and government agencies to work towards freedom for the enslaved 2) promote awareness and eduation locally and 3) to discover and implement other successfulmethods of fighting slavery globally. • http://www.justiceandjubilee.org/ • Dinner and a Movie Fundraiser: Mon. Sept. 21st, 6-8pm, 524 E Whitaker Mill Rd. Raleigh, NC - All proceeds will go to the SCTNOW walk. We will also be showing the film "The Playground" at 7:30. Dinner is free, but generous donations are greatly appreciated! • Hope House • To provide a place of seclusion, restoration, and healing for domestic minor sex trafficking victims (U.S. girls under 18 yrs.old). • http://www.hopehousenc.com/ • NC Coalition Against Sexual Assault • Mission: an inclusive, statewide alliance working to end sexual violence through education, advocacy, and legislation. • http://www.nccasa.org/

10. Links • NC Stop Human Trafficking • http://ncstophumantrafficking.wordpress.com/ • CAST Facebook Group • http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=15161502938 • Carolina Women’s Center • http://womenscenter.unc.edu/?p=cores

11. References • "Sex Trafficking: The Facts." New Internationalist. 13 Mar 2008 <http://www.newint.org/features/2007/09/01/the-facts/>. • Mirkinson, Judith. "Red Light, Green Light: The Global Trafficking Of Women." 13 Mar 2008 <http://www.selenasol.com/selena/struggle/prostitution.html>. • Poulin, Richard. "Globalization and the Sex Trade : Trafficking and the Commodification of Women and Children." 13 Mar 2008 <http://sisyphe.org/article.php3?id_article=965>. • "Child Sex Tourism." 06 Nov 2007. U.S. Department of Justice. 13 Mar 2008 <http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/ceos/sextour.html>. • "Report of the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace." July 1985. United Nations. 12 Apr 2008 <http://www.un.org/womenwatch/confer/nfls/Nairobi1985report.txt>. • Nicholson, Mari. "Patpong, Bangkok's Red Light Area." Suite101. 24 Feb 2008. 12 Apr 2008 <http://easiatravel.suite101.com/article.cfm/patpong_in_bangkok_red_light_area>.