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Human Trafficking
Course Material
- Syllabus for Human Trafficking
- News story with link to US State Department Trafficking In Persons report
- Personal Story HT.pdf; How much is a Women, Child Worth to Sex Traffickers.doc
- Trafficking in Person.pdf; CAT Behavior and Attitudes of Johns.pdf; The Fight to End Global Slavery.pdf;
- Role of Law Enforcement in Indentifying and Helping Victims.ppt
- Toxic Culture.pdf
- Forced Labor.pdf; HT Brochure.pdf; Tattoos Control Victims.pdf; Stip Club Testimony.pdf; The Swedish Law.pdf; Forced Labor Hidden Slaves.pdf; Forced Labor in California.pdf
- Human Trafficking / Human Smuggling
- Suggested Readings
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Comments
While reading Sasha's Story,
While reading Sasha's Story, it is sad that she is one of the majority in believing that someone in a drunk stupor is innocent of a violent act against another.
Most people do not know that a drunk person thought about that act while sober and used the alcohol as a device or the vehicle to carry out their want.
Thus the drunk person is exonerated, excused, justified and deemed innocent. Leaving them free to a successful crime with only one caution, who and when will be the next victim?
I hope Sasha is living the
I hope Sasha is living the life we all deserve: with peace and love. I'm glad that she was able to find love after all that she went through.
This seems like a real Kitty
This seems like a real Kitty Genovese situation. What the hell did all of the other johns think? There's no way that this one guy was the only one smart enough to figure out that something was wrong. I'd be interested to know if he had ever patronized the red light district himself (see Attitudes of Johns), or if just got involved because of Sasha. What really makes me furious is that there seems to be absolutely no attitude of responsible consumerism amongst the (primarily) men who patronize sex workers.
Another thing we can look at
Another thing we can look at from this story is the marginal cost of human trafficking: It shows us that simply legalizing sex work is not "the answer".
What I mean is that as long as the rewards considerably outweigh the risks, trafficking will continue, regardless of whether sex work is legal. Even in Amsterdam, where sex work is legalized, the story tells us the benefits to the traffickers: $70,000 per year, from *one* enslaved person.
Sasha was there for a long time, but where are the government inspectors? We don't hear a single mention of such people coming to visit. Where are the NGO workers? They don't appear until she's already out from under the thumb of the traffickers (this is not to minimize their usefulness, but to highlight the fact that this red-light district appears totally under-regulated from all possible sources). Legalization of sex work cannot be a force against trafficking without strong, consistently enforced regulations.