Human Trafficking

NOTE: This is a temporary schedule, new movies and readings will be added each week. It's subject to change depending on course progress, unforeseen circumstances, etc.
 
Required Book:
 
Malarek, V. (2004). The Natashas: Inside the new global sex trade. Arcade Publishing: New York. ISBN: 1-55970-779-8
 
Textbook is available online. Please check the following websites: www.amazon.com, http://www.barnesandnoble.com, http://www.powells.com,
http://www.rainydaybooks.com, www.textbooks.com, www.betterworldbooks.com.
 
 
 
GETTING STARTED: 
 

• Follow Human Trafficking up-to-date News on Twitter: http://twitter.com/stopHT                        
   
• All discussions in this course will take place in the discussion forum (inside this course)
• We are going to use Blogger: https://www.blogger.com/start (please set up a blog if you don’t have one already)
• We will use synchronous tools and meetings when needed and choose a time that works for all of you.
• Please make sure to share your thoughts, ideas and knowledge. This is a peer to peer learning and your input is needed. The course is not taught, it is facilitated by the course leader.

GEOGRAPHIC MAP

In order to comprehend human trafficking issues, international-global problem, I advise you to use geographic maps. The problem is massive around the world and not every country is familiar to us. Please locate every country on the map while you are reading/discussion chapters and additional materials.
 
Please visit this interactive map: http://go.hrw.com/atlas/norm_htm/world.htm
 

GUIDANCE FOR WORKING TOGETHER

This course is based on the assumption that you are willing to fully participate in and take responsibility for your learning and, in some cases, the learning of others. Active participation in learning asks you to go beyond reading and be willing to question, apply, critique, discuss. I anticipate learning a great deal from you as we go through this process and I view myself as a facilitator of this class rather than the single source of information and insight.
 
As you discuss, remember that your goal is to find creative ways to elicit people’s ideas and feelings to deepen understanding of the key issues of the subject. Try to pose open-ended questions, not questions that can be answered with “yes” or “no”. Avoid posing questions that cannot be answered or that are unnecessarily difficult, but don’t hesitate to pose complex question.
 

Here are some general guidelines for discussions. You may want to also make some suggestions for guidelines based on past experiences.

1. use full sentences and punctuation for clarity

2. respond to ideas not personalities

3. proofread before posting

4. be respectful and give one another the benefit of the doubt

5. ask for clarification rather than attacking

6. do your own work only - don't repeat what someone else wrote

7. post discussions privately when they are responses to one person only - remember, 

we are all listening and don't want to deal with your personal discussions - only those posting meant for everyone

8. ask for help

9. post videos, try out ideas, think out loud.. Don’t be afraid to be a leader!!

AUDIO AND VIDEO FILES

We will be utilizing different websites to watch audio and video files weekly.

In case you don’t have programs installed: 1) VLC Player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/). 2) Free Quicktime 7 can be downloaded from http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download(There is a Windows version available). Quicktime will play MPEG-4 movies. You can also play them on your iPod. 3) Free RealPlayer can be downloaded from http://www.real.com/RealPlayer will play the Flash (.flv) movies. You can also download a free Flash Video player called FLV Player (http://www.download.com/FLV-Player/3000-2139_4-10467081.html)

The audio and video files are larger than text files. It is best if you have a high-speed Internet connection. If you do not, I suggest you go to a public location, such as a library or campus computer lab, download the files and take them home to play. (You can save them on a USB thumb drive.) You may need to save the files to your desktop or a folder you set up before they will play. URI does not have a streaming video server, so you must wait until the file downloads completely before it will begin playing.
 

Week 1 - Introduction – Getting Started and Knowing each other – Building Community

• Getting to know each member
• Check out the course syllabus
• Send a message introducing yourself to the rest of the class
• Make your user profile:upload your photo in your profile and write about yourself.
• Speak about preferences, interests, and your plans
• Peer review is one of the main features of the peer-to-peer model. It allows the facilitator, to *not be the teacher*, and to learn alongside the peers.

Week 2 - Learn the definitions and terms commonly used to discuss these topics.  Learn the difference between smuggling and trafficking
   
Watch the movie: Lila forever        Lilya 4 EVER- 103 min -
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Lilja is 16 years old. Her only friend is the young boy Volodja. They live in a poor village in Estonia, fantasizing about a better life. On...all »Lilja is 16 years old. Her only friend is the young boy Volodja. They live in a poor village in Estonia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej. He is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life.

• Read materials that explain trafficking and smuggling and watch several short movies (will be posted).
• Complete Intro Page
• Discuss your answers on sign-up assignment for this course/share comments and repeat the assignment. (goal: What have I learned?)

Week 3 – Human Trafficking: Sex and Labo(u)r Trafficking

• What is Labor Trafficking
• How traffickers make money from modern day slaving, child trafficking
• Bacha Bazi and trafficking in the U.S.A. and other countries
• Read the Natashas –Victor Malarek
• WATCH THE MOVIE: HUMAN TRAFFICKING 

About the movie: Human Trafficking
Hundreds of thousands of young women have vanished from their everyday lives—forced by violence into a hellish existence of brutality and prostitution. They're a profitable commodity in the multi-billion-dollar industry of modern slavery. The underworld calls them human traffic.
When a sixteen-year-old girl from the Ukraine, a single mother from Russia, an orphaned seventeen-year-old girl from Romania, and a twelve-year-old American tourist become the victims of international sex slave traffickers, a specialized team of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) struggles to expose the worldwide network that has enslaved them. ICE agent Kate Morozov (Academy Award® and Golden Globe® Award winner Mira Sorvino,Mighty Aphrodite) knows the horror of sexual exploitation first-hand and is dedicated to dismantling the network and bringing the ring's kingpin to justice.
Director: Christian Duguay
Cast: Mira Sorvino, Donald Sutherland, Lynne Adams, Sarah Allen, Andreas Apergis

Week 4 – The recruitment of victims and demand and supply

• Movies and materials will be posted
• Criminal networks and corrupt governments
• Signs of Human Trafficking
• Females/Males Trafficked
• Why “Johns” want young children

Week 5 – What MUST be done?

• Legal and Policy Framework: The Natashas: Chapter 7, Chapter 8
• What Can Be Done: Reading: The Natashas: Chapter 9, Chapter 10
• NGO’s and Legal Actions
• Human Trafficking Awareness
• What are the victim’s rights?
• TIP report 2010 and earlier, ratings?

 
Week 6 – What Can We Do?
"Likewise, for those of us who are in position to do something to combat human slavery, however small our contribution, neutrality is a sin."
Inspector General Joseph E. Schmitz, Department of Defense

Final Project:Choose one country or areato analyze/research and describe contemporary forms of human trafficking and provide evidence and information regarding any NGO (Non-Government Organization) activity in relation to combat human trafficking in that country/region.
This is the Syllabus for your Course. Any course participant is allowed to edit this page. Be the first to edit the page by clicking on 'Edit' next to the name of the page (in the Course Material block on the left).

The course will specifically cover:

• Difference between human trafficking and human smuggling
• How traffickers make money from modern day slaving
• The recruitment of victims
• The demand and supply
• Criminal networks and corrupt governments
• Sex and child trafficking
• NGO’s and legal actions
• What must be done?
• How does human Trafficking take place?
• Signs of Human Trafficking?

Required Textbook:

• The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade by Victor Malarek. Paperback: ISBN-10:1559707798 ; ISBN-13: 978-1559707794

Get to know more about human trafficking through multimedia resources:

• Human Trafficking Intro:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_vwoL97Dzc

• Human Trafficking Commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAaYhl_S21g&feature=related

• Sex Trafficking Awareness:

http://bit.ly/9xRbK3