Analysis Of The Book ' Half The Sky '

Detailing the struggles faced by women across the developing world, Half the Sky is an emotional and compelling text providing insight into issues that are essentially, a world away. Half the Sky covers with great depth the hardships and injustices that women are faced with – often as a direct result of cultural, political or economic forces. Throughout the chapters of this book, I was made aware of hardships I had never thought to look into – and have begun to think of the real world implications of my actions, and how I may alter those actions to have a greater impact on disenfranchised populations around the world.

In the novel, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, written by authors Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn in 2009, these two call attention to the oppression of women. These authors label the incidents that occur throughout our world involving women oppression as an epidemic of our generation. The novel demonstrates the severity of sex trafficking, sexual violence, and lack of education of women that are seen amongst us. There exists many relations of opportunities concerning educational and professional studies among the women portrayed in the novel and myself. Although, related opportunities are seen, the underlying severity of what these women endure to reach those opportunities are much more challenging than mine.

Sex Trafficking in the U.S. is an article by Rachel Chinapen found inside the textbook Women’s Voices Feminist Vision. In this article the the author discusses the reality of sex trafficking in the United States still going on today. According to one of her sources, Love 146, More than 100,000 U.S children are forced to engage in prostitution or pornography in combination to $32 billion being spent worldwide on trafficking. The two examples that Chinapen gave were two women named Shandra Woworuntu and Ms. Richards. Shandra Woworuntu came to the U. S. from Indonesia to pursue a job in the hotel business but as soon as she arrived her passport and other identification was taken. For years she suffered in sex trafficking she was able to escape.

The book “half the sky” opened my eyes to many women issues that occur around the world. Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn did a great job in making a series of essays and anecdotes that work together, to create two different types of arguments. Even though I enjoyed reading this book there where two stories that stood out to me. The first one is Rescuing Girls is the Easy Par, in this part the author talks about sexual enslavement in countries in Asia. Sexual enslavement is the exploitation of women and children, within national or across international borders, for the purposes of forced sex work. The author had a plan to set some girls free by going to a brothel and buying their rights. The first part of this plan was easy because all they had to do

Labor and sex trafficking both use very similar methods. Exploiting the victim’s weakness is a common method for traffickers. “They prey on the longings of the victim’s heart and fill psychological wounds that the victim has had inflicted on him or her in a previous life experience” (Tomkiewicz). From creating longings of the victim’s heart and filling them with psychological wounds, the victim will become weaker and easier to manipulate because he or she would want somebody to rely on. Traffickers often aim for young girls, ages 12 to 14, who had a bad childhood and abusive family, so they can act as their guardian. After gaining the victim’s trust, the trafficker will lead them away from his or her family and force him or her into prostitution. Traffickers would use filthy methods such as saying “I saved you” or “I love you,” then after this psychological attack they would end with “do this for me please, if you love me” (Tomkiewicz). Manipulating with the victim’s heart is easy because the trafficker was able to gain their trust and love. CNN unfolds a story about a human trafficking survivor and the cruel reality of human trafficking that happens commonly in Mexico and United States.

A young girl from Nepal, filled with hopes and dreams, moves to America. She, like anyone who moves to the United States, wishes to get a job and start earning money. (Transition) A family friend provides her the transportation she needs to get to America and sets her up with a job in the new country. She arrives in America and meets her employer. Unknowingly, the young girl has been sold into slavery by her family friend in America. In that moment, her whole life turned upside down and her heart filled with fear. Everyday thousands of women, men, and children are sold into the sex industry and feel the same way as the young girl. (Transition)(explain the way she feels) The effects of sex trafficking are psychological

Through time we have misconstrued the difference between prostitution and human trafficking. In which prostitution is a profession which means they have an option to work or not, and human trafficking is not a profession which means they are being forced to do sex work. In the world “at least 20.9 million adults and

Human trafficking is when a person is forced or tricked into working under terrible conditions. The victims of human trafficking may be kidnapped or are sometimes lured with false promises for a better future in a new country. Human trafficking is a high-profit and low-risk endeavor for the traffickers. Human trafficking can occur within a country or trans-nationally and is considered a crime against the victim being trafficked because of the violation of the victim’s rights of movement through coercion and because of their commercial exploitation. In many countries, young women are being kidnapped and subjected to human trafficking for the intention of forced labor, sexual slavery and removal of body

The first example of how oppression is perpetrated on women around the globe is through forced prostitution and sexual trafficking, which is actually more akin to slavery. India is said to have 2 to 3 million prostitutes, many of which are forced to be one. They are described as modern day slaves because they are taken, forced to work without pay, and can not leave under any circumstance, unless they want to be beaten or killed. The book gives the example of Meena Hasina’s harsh, relentless experiences after she was kidnapped and trafficked, and forced into prostitution. She was beaten an average of 5 times per week, was forced to have sex with 10 or more customers everyday no matter her

The violence to women's in human trafficking is a the woman's being tricked into working terrible conditions. Victims of human trafficking may be kidnapped. They also may be lured with false promises of a better life in a new country. A person who is trafficked may be drugged, locked up, beaten, starved, or made to work, or made to work for many hours a day. The types of work a trafficked person may be forced to do include prostitution, farm work, cleaning, childcare, or sweatshop work. The ways a trafficker control a woman include “Making her work to pay back money they say she owes them, threatening to hurt her or her family, threatening to have her deported, taking away her passport, birth certificate, or ID card, preventing her from having contact with friends, family, or the outside world”. (www.womanhealth.gov.May

Human trafficking exploits women in ways that include forced labor, slavery, servitude, sexual exploitation, or removal of human organs. In Nepal

The study brought into perspective some of the issues of basic human rights that the sex trafficking workers will encounter when being exported, such as being stripped of her identity, as Elaina was preoccupied with concern that her temporary visa was only valid for three months and she remained at risk of being deported (Kleinschmidt, 2009, 264). Along with her loss of identity in adulthood, Elaine also encountered abuse in her childhood. A barrier to overcome as a social worker is the abusive interaction in an authoritative figure normalizing the treatment to the victim as her father abused her as he drank increasingly heavily and he was physically and violent to both Elaina and her mother (Kleinschmidt, 2009, 264). The abuse of the victim at a young age is not uncommon to the sex trafficking industry as the vulnerability of the victim creates an easy target for the perpetrator to abuse Elaina without anyone noticing the

Women and young girls are mostly trafficked into the international sexy trade. Sex trade is “the exploitation of women and children , within national or across international borders, for the purposes of forced sex work. Many of the poorest and most unstable countries have the highest incidences of human trafficking, and extreme poverty is a common connection among trafficking victims. Increased unemployment have undermined women’s incomes, so they are more vulnerable to being tricked into sexual servitude. Other are promised marriage, educational opportunities and better lives and sometimes some are sold into trafficking by boyfriends, friends, neighbors etc. Sex trade is cruel because it removes the victims from all that is familiar to them, rendering her completely isolated and often unable to speak the language of her captor and/or fellow victims. Some type of sex

Human trafficking is a global phenomenon that manifests in the form of sex trafficking, bonded labor, and organ trafficking. Human trafficking is a gruesome practice of enslavement and perversion affecting millions of (mostly) girls all around the world. It is a major concern for governments and states alike. It is an issue that spreads through every developed country as well as underdeveloped ones. It is based on the forcible migration of people in order to exploit them. The practice of human trafficking is the exploitation of individuals through force, fraud or coercion. Human Trafficking is an issue that has existed for centuries however it has just recently entered the dialogue of legislators, law enforcement and social workers.

A disproportionate share of child trafficking victims come from Thailand’s rural areas confronted with a lack of basic human and legal rights protection such as, a lack of citizenship or non-birth registration. Additionally, children living in extreme poverty with limited or no access to education, medical care, and other social services, are often compelled to work in dangerous and exploitive situations, where their well-being and rights are endangered. That being said, children coming from impoverished families are sold to traders to provide for the welfare for the rest of the family. Girls who are marginalized, poor, uneducated and living in isolated rural areas are most affected and usually exploited into the sex industry. Women and girls become exposed to