Sex Trafficking Written by husband and wife team Kristof and WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide exposes the oppression of women worldwide as the final frontier of human slavery and social injustice. Gender disparity underlies a host of political, social, and economic problems worldwide, according to the authors. Both authors are Pulitzer-prize winning journalists who wrote for The New York Times. The authors bring their journalistic style to Half the Sky by traveling around the world offering first-hand insight into what is arguably the most persistent and problematic social and political issue in all of human history. While the authors are prepared to focus on the sheer immediacy of the issue, most readers understand that these are not modern problems. Sex trafficking, gendercide, and other extreme manifestations of sexism have occurred in multiple cultures throughout human history, which is one reason why they are perpetuated still today after more than a century of social progress...
The authors understand that gender issues like the ones discussed in Half the Sky are the last remaining barrier to social equity: and also present gendercide as being frankly on par with the African Slave trade and even with the Holocaust. Their comparisons are not trite but honest, backed up by gory details and alarming statistics.
Sex trafficking is a broad term that encompasses a wide range of dehumanizing activities. By definition, sex trafficking involves the forced transportation and subsequent exploitation of human beings, especially women. Sex trafficking is a subset of a more general problem known as human trafficking, which can involve any type of slavery-like forced labor scenarios often but not necessarily involved in sex (The Project to End Human Trafficking). As the organization
Governments and NGOs have committed much time, money, and effort to the reduction of human trafficking around the world. The United States enforced the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) in 2000 in order to track and shut down trafficking organizations. Following 9/11, the United States has additionally tightened security, making it more difficult for traffickers to transport individuals into the United States (Soderlund 4, 11). The Bush Administration has also
The stereotype that "the exotic is the erotic" has fueled the demand for foreign women to enter prostitution, further inflating the demand for trafficked women. This has been a traditional marketing angle in the sex industry, dating back to Roman times when the hetaerae, or foreign women, commanded the highest prices for sexual services. Today, there is an even broader selection of source countries for recruitment. War or a military conflict
Typically, involuntary participants in the sex trade are children from extremely impoverished communities whose families sell them to human traffickers. In many other instances, victims are tricked through legitimate-sounding advertisements such as for work in foreign countries as nannies or service positions (waitresses, hostesses, etc.) Once their handlers have possession of their passports and identification papers, they may have no way of escaping from their control. In many cases, they
Human Trafficking Sex trafficking and exploitation in Europe Sex trafficking in Europe Although globalization has been a boon in many positive ways to many people, it has also had the unintended consequence of facilitating the sex industry. According to the International Labor Office (ILO) "there are 12.3 million victims of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation worldwide at any given time. Forty-three percent are trafficked for purposes of commercial sexual exploitation," the majority
Human Trafficking: A Growing Threat for All Undocumented Migrant Workers. Human trafficking, despite the growing global awareness, has generated an international response that is fractured and disjointed. The issue of human trafficking in the current global world is a very tragic reality. . Despite a growing global awareness of this issue there still appears to be a fractured and disjointed international response regarding how to effectively deal with the problem. Although
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