http://www.iabolish.org
This web site was started but the American Anti-Slavery Group or AASG. They are a nonprofit group that is working with former victims and are trying the help terminate slavery today. They are mainly focused on the slavery in Sudan and Mauritania. The iAbolish web site is all about Awareness, Advocacy, Activism and Aid. On the home page of this site there is a little paragraph about the wed site and the site has a little area where you can see the current news and events that are going on. Also on the home page you can read about how the are acting or showing Awareness, Advocacy, Activism and Aid.
This site is very easy to navigate. On the left side there is a list of things that you can look at from the history of the AASG to essays on slavery. If you click on the link “What we do” you can get a summary of what the AASG is doing to abolish slavery and how they are getting people are aware. Also in this page you can see who are part of the AASG. There is a list of board of directors and staff of the AASG. Under the “Modern Slavery 101” link you can get a definition of what kind of slavery is going on today because it’s not just sex slavery but also labor slavery. There is a link to take a look at the book Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery by Gloria Steinem. There is also a link to their blog. On this site everything is laid out very neatly and it is organized well. You should have no problem finding your way around.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Current events
Human Trafficking is the third largest illegal trade in the world; some say that within a decade that it will outstrip the other illegal trades: guns and narcotics. In 2000 George Bush sigend the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. This act helps victims of human trafficking to be treated as victims and not as criminals. They get special visas that allow them to stay in the country for up to three years in exchange for their assistance in investigations and prosecutions of traffickers. This act also categorizes each county into 3 tiers. Tier 3 are the countries that are doing little or nothing to help fight trafficking and tier 1 are the countires that are actively fighting trafficking. Currently there are approx. 29 countries in tier 1, approx. 70 in tier2, apporox. 40 in tier 2 watch list, apporox. 14 in teir 3 and approx. 16 with no teir rating.
An estimated 600,000-800,000 people are trafficked each year world wide, 80% of that is women and children. These people come from all over the world for Asia to Africa and even Europe and the United States. The United States is a destination country. 18,000-20,000 people are trafficked into the US annually. The women and children are trafficked mostly for prostitution but also for servants. In most countries the men are trafficked for labor work, the 3-D jobs: dirty, difficult and dangerous. Out of the 6000,000-800,000 people that are trafficked each year around 25,000 woman and children come for Bangladesh and around 400,000 are Ukrainian woman. In Albania around 90% of the girls are afraid to go to school because they might get abducted and sold into prostitution.
Masci, David. "Human Trafficking and Slavery." The CQ Researcher (2004): 275-92.
Unknown. "Human Trafficking." Issuse and Controvrsies (2004): 297-304.
An estimated 600,000-800,000 people are trafficked each year world wide, 80% of that is women and children. These people come from all over the world for Asia to Africa and even Europe and the United States. The United States is a destination country. 18,000-20,000 people are trafficked into the US annually. The women and children are trafficked mostly for prostitution but also for servants. In most countries the men are trafficked for labor work, the 3-D jobs: dirty, difficult and dangerous. Out of the 6000,000-800,000 people that are trafficked each year around 25,000 woman and children come for Bangladesh and around 400,000 are Ukrainian woman. In Albania around 90% of the girls are afraid to go to school because they might get abducted and sold into prostitution.
Masci, David. "Human Trafficking and Slavery." The CQ Researcher (2004): 275-92.
Unknown. "Human Trafficking." Issuse and Controvrsies (2004): 297-304.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Background
Slavery/Human Trafficking dates back all the way to the Romans. From Mesopotamia to China to Egypt to India, all of our greatest cultures embraced slavery as "fact of life." Slavery was very common in the Americas and in the sub-Saharan Africa. The natives of the Americas often enslaved other natives that were capture during war. Even though some Greek philosophers defended against slavery, other great thinkers nor the bible took a position against slavery. But in the 17th and 18th centuries a bigger amount of people started to question slavery.
Human Trafficking/Slavery became very profitable in ancient Greece and Rome. In the cities of Athens and Sparta about half of the residents were slaves. Even common people could afford and had one to two slaves. Two great Romans, Pliny the Younger and Cicero wanted the masters to their slave with kindness and urged them to have conversations with the slaves. It was very common for the slaves to be freed after many years of service and slaves even became physicians and poets in the Roman Empire. Some became politicians, powerful generals and even managed estates.
Though there was peaceful ways for the slaves in the 1st and 2nd centuries slave revolts were suppressed and slaves were maintained by crulty and violence with wipping and crucifixion. In the 5th century slavery was not ended with the new order of the Catholic Church. It actually made it worse the slaves became serfs and peasants couldn't leave without permission of the masters. Because slavery/human trafficking have been around for hundreds and hundreds of years who knows if it will ever stop, but we still have to try.
Masci, David. "Human Trafficking and Slavery." The CQ Researcher (2004): 275-92.
Human Trafficking/Slavery became very profitable in ancient Greece and Rome. In the cities of Athens and Sparta about half of the residents were slaves. Even common people could afford and had one to two slaves. Two great Romans, Pliny the Younger and Cicero wanted the masters to their slave with kindness and urged them to have conversations with the slaves. It was very common for the slaves to be freed after many years of service and slaves even became physicians and poets in the Roman Empire. Some became politicians, powerful generals and even managed estates.
Though there was peaceful ways for the slaves in the 1st and 2nd centuries slave revolts were suppressed and slaves were maintained by crulty and violence with wipping and crucifixion. In the 5th century slavery was not ended with the new order of the Catholic Church. It actually made it worse the slaves became serfs and peasants couldn't leave without permission of the masters. Because slavery/human trafficking have been around for hundreds and hundreds of years who knows if it will ever stop, but we still have to try.
Masci, David. "Human Trafficking and Slavery." The CQ Researcher (2004): 275-92.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Introduction
The book Sold is what first introduced me to the issue of Human Trafficking. The book is about a girl in Nepal who was sold into prostitution by her stepfather to pay off a gambling debt. She is forced to have sex with men. At first she refuses and is starved and beaten. She is only 13 years old. Nepal is not the only place were the sex slave industry is. It is all over the world. There are organizations that are trying to help those that are sold as sex slaves. Love 146 is one organization that working on trying to stop child sex slavery.
One of the reasons that I am interested in this topic is that I want to understand how families can sell their own children to men and women. I also want to know if the families know where their children go and if they know what they are doing. I want to know what these men and women are thinking when they buy children for the intention of forcing them to have sex. I want to know what is being done by the governments of the countries to stop this.
One of the reasons that I am interested in this topic is that I want to understand how families can sell their own children to men and women. I also want to know if the families know where their children go and if they know what they are doing. I want to know what these men and women are thinking when they buy children for the intention of forcing them to have sex. I want to know what is being done by the governments of the countries to stop this.
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