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What is trafficking?

What is trafficking?. UN definition: “The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons,

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What is trafficking?

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  1. What is trafficking? • UN definition: “The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring 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"

  2. Types of trafficking • Agriculture • Farms • Industry and Manufacturing • Factories • Retail Business • Restaurants • Nail Salons • Hair-braiding salons • Magazine crews • Private Homes • Domestic servitude • Bride trafficking

  3. Types of trafficking • Commercial Sex Industry • Domestic street prostitution, strip clubs, and escort agencies • Asian massage parlors, residential brothel, and room salon networks • Latino residential brothel, cantina bar, and escort agency networks • Russian and Eastern European strip clubs and escort agencies • Online websites, like Craigs List and escort agency websites

  4. Process Seduced Deceived Abducted Indebted Defiled Threatened Sold Forced

  5. Who does it and why? • Not a certain demographic • Men • Women • Strangers or acquaintances • Usually the same nationality as victim • Huge profit • Low risk

  6. Who are the victims? • Vulnerable populations • Undocumented immigrants • Runaways and at-risk youth • Oppressed and marginalized populations • The poor

  7. Where are they from? Belarus, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation and Ukraine (Commonwealth of Independent States), Albania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Romania, China, Thailand, and Nigeria What do these countries have in common?

  8. So, how many people are being trafficked?

  9. Effects on victims Biological Psychological Social Financial

  10. Current US policies • Trafficking Victims Protection Act • Goals: • Prevent • Protect • Prosecute Trafficking in Persons Report Missouri’s new legislation- HB 214

  11. Why should Americans care? • What are our values? • Economic impact: $32 billion/year • 3rd largest Criminal industry • Weapons • Drugs • People

  12. How are we involved? EVERY country has been identified as a country of origin, transit, or destination Top destination countries: Belgium, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Thailand, Turkey and the United States 14,500-17,500 new people trafficked into the US per year

  13. Top goods produced by child or forced labor: • Agriculture: • Cotton (16) • Sugarcane (15) • Tobacco (15) • Coffee (13) • Cocoa (5) • Manufacturing: • Bricks (15) • Garments (6) • Carpets (5) • Footwear (5) • Mined/quarried: • Gold (17) • Diamonds (7) • Coal (6)

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