NEWS ARTICLES - Rangon Islam
The Truth About The Super Bowl http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/01/30/sex-trafficking-survivor-truth-about-super-bowl-and-sex.html
“I am a victim of the sex-trafficking industry. I was trafficked for more than a decade in Minneapolis, Hawaii and Las Vegas. Based on my experience I can tell you that the Super Bowl is just another weekend for the hundreds of thousands of sex-trafficking victims in the United States. That’s what it was when I was a sex-trafficked call girl in Las Vegas. The escort agency I worked for expected me to go on as many calls as I could fit in a 12-hour period, from 8 in the evening to 8 the following morning. I would see between 10-30 different men a night. It didn’t matter how tired I was or how much money I made, I had to be loyal my entire shift for the entire weekend, or face a fine of $1,500. When I finally got home, as soon as I walked in the door, my pimp took 100% of my earnings. Never mind that the tricks (the men that paid for sex) thought I was enjoying myself. Never mind they thought I was making great money, paying my way through college. These were the lies my alter ego “Fallen” would tell with a smile on her face—only to make more money for my pimp. When you live in fear of the next beat-down (I was physically beaten more times than I can count by my pimp and by tricks), this is what you must do to survive. Pretend you are someone else. When I began my time as a prostitute, I chose the name “Fallen” for my fake ID. I was no longer the Annie I knew and recognized; I was “Fallen”—a victim of high-class sex trafficking Vulnerable Victims:
Signs of Human Trafficking: https://www.polarisproject.org/human-trafficking/recognizing-the-signs National Human Trafficking Resource Center: 1 (888) 373-7888 SMS: 233733 (Text "HELP" or "INFO") Hours: 24 hours, 7 days a week Languages: English, Spanish and 200 more languages Website: traffickingresourcecenter.org To catch up on more current events related to this topic, check out The New York Times’s section for recent human trafficking articles. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/human_trafficking/index.html Conclusions: Human trafficking isn't something encounter on a daily basis, so why should it be an important issue?
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Raisa Talal
Domingo Fortuna
WHAT IS HUMAN TRAFFICKING? Every year, millions of people are trafficked in countries around the world, including the United States. Most of these people are immigrants from developing communities, who are transported to developed communities that are more prosperous. Traffickers use immigrant’s workers unfamiliarity with the language, laws and customs as an advantage to manipulate or exploit them in their new environment . Traffickers sell them into involuntary servitude, where immigrants are forced to work against their will in harsh working conditions. Labor trafficking has become an important issue for the U.S. presidencial race because illegal immigration has resulted in an increase of involuntary servitude in the United States. Also labor trafficking violates the Constitution of the United States of America, which states "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”. Even though the authorities are trying to decrease labor trafficking in U.S. soil, their effort is not effective because labor trafficking is happening in the major cities of the United States. RESTAURANT WORKERS New York City is known for its Chinese food. In almost every corner of the city we can find a Chinese restaurant. As the number of Chinese restaurant grows, so do the competition. Because of this restaurant owners are forced to commit “ underhanded and even illegal activities”. Exploitation, fraud, and coercion are some the tactics that are used to manipulate immigrant workers. Immigrants are exposed to “exploitative” labor conditions that are characteristic of trafficking cases, such as withholding of documents, nonpayment for services, physical abuse, or extremely poor living conditions. Also traffickers use the threat of deportation as well as document confiscation to maintain control of their victims. HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND ITS IMPACT According to the U.S. Department of States an estimated 20.9 million men, women and children are trafficked for commercial sex or forced labor around the world. Even though the United States provides programs to help victims of human trafficking, the victims are not familiar with these programs. It often takes them about a year or more to receive help because they are uneducated. The United States has the goal to achieve global awareness of human trafficking, but it is a difficult task. For example, countries like Algeria denied sex trafficking despite evidence. As a result, no effort is made to investigate, prosecute, or convict perpetrators of sex trafficking. In Algeria human trafficking are subjected to force labor and sex trafficking. Typically, sub-Saharan African men and women immigrate to Algeria voluntarily but illegally with the help of smugglers. Some of these women and men go to Algeria thinking that smuggler would help them travel to Europe. In contrast, these women may be forced into prostitution, domestic service, and begging. Just like in the United States Immigrants are the most vulnerable to sex trafficking or labor trafficking in Algeria because of the language barriers. Human trafficking affects every country in the world. It occurs for three reasons prostitution, forced labor, and human organs. The majority of the victims of human trafficking are immigrants because traffickers use immigrant’s workers unfamiliarity with the language, laws and customs to manipulate them. From Algeria to New York City we can see similarities in the way involuntary servitude works. If we come together we can decrease human trafficking, and spread awareness about anti-trafficking programs that would help the world. Its our duty as citizens to acknowledge the problems that are affecting our society. So it’s very important to understand the stand of every presidential candidate, in order to know how they might provide a solution or relieve to this issue . Anika Anna
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