Sex Trafficking

1. Sex Trafficking By: Amanda, Kristin, Teresa, and Jeremy

2. Intro • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwAhti93QYU&feature=related

3. Definition • Sex Trafficking • is a modern-day form of slavery in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act is under the age of 18 years. • Victims of sex trafficking can be women or men, girls or boys, but the majority are women and girls. There are a number of common patterns for luring victims into situations of sex trafficking, including: • • A promise of a good job in another country • • A false marriage proposal turned into a bondage situation • • Being sold into the sex trade by parents, husbands, boyfriends • • Being kidnapped by traffickers

4. Definition Continued… • Force involves the use of rape, beatings and confinement to control victims. • Fraud often involves false offers that induce people into trafficking situations. For example, women and children will reply to advertisements promising jobs as waitresses, maids and dancers in other countries and are then trafficked for purposes of prostitution once they arrive at their destinations. • Coercion involves threats of serious harm to, or physical restraint of, any person; any scheme, plan or pattern intended to cause a person to believe that failure to perform an act would result in serious harm to or physical restraint against any person; or the abuse or threatened abuse of the legal process.

5. Sex vs. Labor Trafficking • Labor Trafficking: 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. This can include: • • Bonded labor, or debt bondage, is probably the least known form of labor trafficking today, and yet it is the most widely used method of enslaving people. • • Forced laboris a situation in which victims are forced to work against their own will, under the threat of violence or some other form of punishment, their freedom is restricted and a degree of ownership is exerted.

6. MN Sex Trafficking Laws • Advocates have been working with the Minnesota Trafficking Task Force to enable harsher punishment for violators of trafficking and a stronger tool for those enforcing the law. • MN legislator signed the “Bill for an Act to Combat Trafficking in Minnesota” on May 21, 2009 which included the following…. • Provide law enforcement and prosecutors with the ability to arrest and charge sex traffickers with higher penalties where an offender repeatedly trafficks individuals into prostitution, where bodily harm is inflicted, where an individual is held more than 180 days, or where more than one victim is involved; • Increase the fines for those who sell human beings for sex;  • Criminalize the actions of those individuals who receive profit from sex trafficking; • Categorize sex trafficking with other “crimes of violence” to ensure that those who sell others for sex are prohibited from possessing firearms; and • Add sex trafficking victims to those victims of “violent crime” who are protected from employer retaliation if they participate in criminal proceedings against their traffickers.

7. The Beginning • 56% of pimps have sold themselves prior to their business • 100% of the female pimps (madams) had • 76% were sexually abused as children • Regaining their power • Earn between $150,oo and $500,000 on 2-30 victims/year • Manipulate the women by stimulating a desire • Profits are shared with cab drivers, hotel clerks, bartenders, etc.

8. Demand Components • 1. Men who purchase sex • Have a demand and women/children are the supply • Entertainment, gratification, and violence • Seek control through humiliation and degradation • The exploiters (pimps, brothel owners, traffickers) • Understand the demand and are profitable • Place orders and receive deliveries • Destination countries or states • Take advantage of poverty, unemployment, and a desire for better opportunity • Either legalized prostitution or lacks the control and political influence • A tolerating or promoting culture • Mass media is glamorizing

9. Sex Trafficking Nationally • Sex trafficking exists within the broader commercial sex trade, often at much larger rates than most people realize or understand.  • Sex trafficking has been found in a wide variety of venues of the overall sex industry, including: • Residential brothels • Hostess clubs • Online escort services • Brothels disguised as massage parlors • Strip clubs • Street prostitution. • http://www.polarisproject.org/resources/resources-by-topic/sex-trafficking

10. International Trafficking • Trafficking is estimated to be $32 billion industry, affecting 161 countries worldwide, and is considered the fastest-growing criminal activity in the world today. • The United Nations estimates that between 800,000 -4 million men, women and children are deceived, recruited, transported from their homes and sold into slavery around the world each year. • -80% percent are women, girls and young boys trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation. Of these, more than 200,000 women and children from Russia and Eastern Europe are forced into prostitution each year. • Western demand for Eastern European prostitutes fuels today’s sex-slave industry. Currently, the market for Slavic woman and children in brothels and in pornography in developed countries (Europe and United States) is the hottest compared to other parts of the world

11. Raising Awareness • Tell a Trafficking group about any evidence of human trafficking or enslavement that you see or hear about. • Update friends, family and community members about human trafficking and it’s impacts. • Brochures that describe the negative affects of sex trafficking and the type of women that are targeted. • Global TV and Campaign on Human Trafficking United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP): Warns millions of people that can be possible victims the dangers of trafficking.

12. Prevention • Have good job opportunities • Community activities • Women should move if living in a high risk of trafficking • As a nation and global community we should provide a safe environment to protect the victims and prosecute traffickers. • 6 organizations that help people understand Sex Trafficking and give more information how to deal with this type of situation. • Standing Against Global Exploitation (SAGE) • The Protection Project • The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women • Captive Daughters • Polaris Project • Vital Voices

13. Bibliography • Clymer, Beth. Commercial Sexual Exploitation Ain’t Easy: The Role of Pimps as Sex Traffickers. Meet Justice, 2011. http://meetjustice.org/2011/05/the-role-of-pimps-as-sex-traffickers/ • Human Trafficking. Polaris Project: For a World Without Slavery. Washington, DC 2010. http://www.polarisproject.org/human-trafficking/sex-trafficking-in-the-us/massage-parlors • Human Trafficking. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. 2011. http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-human-trafficking.html • Human Sex Trafficking in Minnesota. The Advocates for Human Rights. Minnesota 2010. http://www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org/Human_Sex_Trafficking_in_Minnesota2.html • Hughes, Donna M. The Demand: Where Sex Trafficking Begins. Rome, 2004. http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/demand_rome_june04.pdf • Jones, Dresden. Sex Trafficking in Minnesota. June 2007. http://www.mncasa.org/documents/June-July%202007.pdf

14. Bibliography Continued… • National Human Trafficking Resource Center. Administration for Children and Families. October 19, 2011. http://www.acf.hhs.gov/trafficking/ • Obama, Barack. Proclamation: National Slavery and Human Trafficking Month. The White House. January, 2010. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-proclamation-national-slavery-and-human-trafficking-prevention-month • Prevention. Humantrafficking.org. 2006. http://www.humantrafficking.org/combat_trafficking/prevention • Sex Trafficking. Rapeis.org. http://www.rapeis.org/activism/sextrade/sextrade.html • Transchel, Kate. Behind the myth of the Happy Hooker. Global Post, Special Report. January, 2010. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/worldview/091203/moldova-sex-trafficking