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Lindsey LudgerPenn State Hazleton

CAS 100 A October 12, 2009

Modern-Day Slavery

Did you know?

Overview• Slavery of our time• Reasons why people are trafficked• Trafficking in the United States• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z

1XCrka-5I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z1XCrka-5I



Slavery of our time

• Similar to traditional slavery• Definition: The recruitment,

harboring, transporting, provision or obtaining of a person for the purpose of exploitation or labor.

• Involves force, fraud, or coercion. Victims are often kidnapped, sold, threatened, beaten, raped, tortured or drugged.

• “White Slave Traffic”

Reasons for Trafficking2 most common reasons why people traffic are…

• Sexual Exploitation• Labor and Profit

Sexual exploitation

• Victims are often lured, kidnapped, or forced into the slave trade. They can be coerced by lover boys, forced marriages, babysitting jobs, etc.

• Market Demand: The demand for sex has increased due to pornography, propaganda, etc, but especially from male sex buyers. This creates profit incentive to entrap more victims.

• According to the UNODC (United Nations office of Drugs and Crimes, women are the most frequent victims, followed by girls, boys, then men.

Labor and Profit

• Profit and Economic promise: greatest underlying cause for why they are trafficked.

• Deceive and manipulate families into letting their children go.

• Forced into indentured servitude/debt bondage.

• Employers use forced labor knowingly and unknowingly to maximize profits.

Trafficking in the United States

• One of the Largest destination countries, approximately 56%, used for sex trade.

• Among the highest of reported cases according to the UNODC.

• Those exploited for labor are often found in sweat shops, or homes (approx. 170,000)

• Other victims: some born and raised in the U.S. find themselves pressed into servitude by fraudulent or deceptive means.

• Some drugged, and lured into prostitution.

Efforts to reduce trafficking…

• U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.

• Protect act 2003• “t Visa”• 33 States now have anti-trafficking laws,

and prostitution is illegal in every state except Nevada.

• Sept. 2008, New York passed the countries first law recognizing prostituted minors as victims.

Recap

• Human trafficking is modern-day slavery

• The 2 most common reasons why people are trafficked are for sexual exploitation and labor and profit.

• Human trafficking occurs in the United States more often than people think.

Look Beneath The Surface…

Q &A

If you have any questions you can email me at [email protected]

Or visit these sites:www.humantrafficking.orgwww.EndHumanTrafficking.org www.ChildrenoftheNight.org

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Sources

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z1XCrka-5I

• http://ezaccess .libraries .psu .edu/login ?url=http://proquest .umi .com .ezaccess .libraries .psu .edu/pqdweb ?did=1622305971 &sid=7 &Fmt=3 &clientId=9874 &RQT=309 &VName=PQD




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