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Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking. Modern-day slavery. What is Human Trafficking?. As a warm up for today’s lesson on human trafficking I would like you to talk in small groups what you think human trafficking is? Is it different from slavery, if so, how? . Background.

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Human Trafficking

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  1. Human Trafficking Modern-day slavery

  2. What is Human Trafficking? • As a warm up for today’s lesson on human trafficking I would like you to talk in small groups what you think human trafficking is? Is it different from slavery, if so, how?

  3. Background • Who in this room thought that slavery ended with the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863? Well I am here to tell you that slavery still exists. The FBI estimates the slave trade generates nearly $32 billion in revenue each year. It is estimated that 27 million slaves exist in the world today. That’s more than twice as many slaves as there were at the height of the Atlantic slave trade in the nineteenth century.

  4. Definition of Human Trafficking • Human Trafficking Definition • A criminal activity in which people are recruited, harbored, transported, bought, or kidnapped to serve an exploitative purpose, such as sexual slavery, forced labor, or child soldiery. • Modern-day examples: Rwandan child soldiers, Shaniya Davis was sold into slavery by her mother Antoinette Davis in 2009. • http://www.wral.com/news/local/wral_investigates/story/10306854/

  5. United States Law: Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) • The TVPA is the main US law on human trafficking. It defines “severe forms of trafficking” as: 1) sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age. 2) the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.

  6. Definitions of Force, Fraud, Coercion • These terms include any situation where an individual is forced to do something against their will, or where they are tricked into doing something by someone who is lying to them or suppressing the truth. • Force = Using violence to control someone • Coercion = Using threats to control someone Coercion refers to behaviors including: • Threats of harm or physical restraint • Trying to get a person to believe that if they don’t do something, it will result in serious harm or physical restraint of themselves or someone else • The abuse (or threatened abuse) of law or the legal process

  7. Fraud refers to intentionally distorting the truth in order to get someone else (who relies on that version of the truth) to surrender a legal right or give up something valuable that belongs to them. • Fraud = Using lies to control someone

  8. What are the types of human trafficking? • The US government has identified eight major types of modern day slavery or human trafficking: 1. Forced Labor 2. Sex Trafficking 3. Bonded Labor 4. Debt Bondage Among Migrant Laborers 5. Involuntary Domestic Servitude 6. Forced Child Labor 7. Child Soldiers 8. Child Sex Trafficking

  9. What can I do to help? • Human trafficking is often called an “invisible crime.” This is because it happens right in front of us and we don’t notice because we don’t recognize the signs. So, as civilians, our best weapon against modern day slavery is to increase awareness.

  10. Videos • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2sOwv610y0 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QW_nsAjweE • http://www.traffickfree.com/Bio.html

  11. Homework • pair off and design a public service announcement (PSA) or awareness poster about modern day slavery. • Ways to do it: • Just write it • Record it as a video and email it to me • Or create a poster board with the information on it What should be on it? Definition of human trafficking Statistics on human trafficking Types of human trafficking Be prepared to present to the class!!!!!!!

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