The Google Self-Driving Automobile

Imagine being able to get into your car and simply typing in your desired destination, and then reclining your seat to watch a movie or text a friend. During this time, the car is basically driving itself. Well, soon this may be possible this invention is called an autonomous car. An autonomous car, or driverless/ robotic car, is a car that is designed to drive without human interference. Essentially, drivers can program their destination into the car’s GPS system and then sit back and relax. Some of the world’s largest car companies are currently creating autonomous vehicles, such as Audi, Toyota, Volvo, Mercedes, and countless others. The driverless vehicle is now becoming a clearer and more present reality, and has been discussed and planned for decades. The autonomous vehicle offers significant benefits, but raises many questions and difficulties.

According to estimates, more than 700,000 people are trafficked every year for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labour. They are transported across borders and sold into modern-day slavery. Over the past decade, trafficking in human beings has reached epidemic proportions. No country is immune. Clawson (2009) discusses how the search for

Polaris Project fights to do away with slavery of the modern age. They focus on responding to victims efficiently and without delay. They provide communities and stakeholders the resources to address and prevent human trafficking. Doing so, disrupts the criminal enterprises network of human trafficking business. Polaris offers national hotlines, global hotlines, client services, texting hotlines, government relations, advisory services, data analysis, and strategic interventions (Polaris, 2017). Overall, this organization is dedicated to eradicating human trafficking and all avenues in which it operates.

I echo the words of President Obama and say to them: We hear you, and we will do all we can to make that dream come true. In recent decades, we have learned a great deal about how to break up human trafficking networks and help victims recover in safety and dignity. In years to come, we will apply those lessons relentlessly, and we will not rest until modern slavery is ended. Obama created President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (PITF) – have brought together leaders from government, the private sector, advocates, survivors, communities of faith, civil society, law enforcement, and academia to strengthen our nation’s collective efforts to combat human trafficking. In implementing this ambitious agenda, the Obama Administration has focused on four priority areas: rule of law, victim services, procurement and supply chains, and public awareness and outreach.Where as Bush continues to advance the fight against trafficking in persons, which is a modern day form of

Polaris, named after the North Star that guided slaves to freedom in the United States (US), targets the human trafficking networks that “rob human beings of their lives and their freedom.” Polaris Project provides training and practices expertise in this matter, anti-trafficking hotlines, accurate data and statistics, and lastly urges governments to change policies that would improve victim protection laws, reduce vulnerability, increase support for victims and expand the human trafficking investigation.

In some cases developing countries slavery can be extensive in cities, towns, and villages either their government is weak or uninterested that it can fall back to the communities. Moreover, there are at times a community rids itself of slavery or brings freedom to others, the movement grows (Bales, Kevin Soodalter, Ron 2009). There are times it might take someone or the public not to ignore slavery and to alert authorities. Communities are achieving of getting rid of slavery, even though other countries may face tough obstacles that exist in their own country. However, there are five steps that communities can get rid of slavery first; either the neighborhood or the community is to make a decision to where slavery is not allowed in their community. Second, the community should go through a task force and make arrangements to find the right mix of awareness raising, to care for survivors that addresses the type (s) of slavery or trafficking there. Third, is to be thinking or forming a successful strategy with local law enforcement, anti-trafficking groups, and their funders on new strategies. When the strategy is successfully tested then is should be proactively offered to other communities as a freely available, “open –source” program (Bales, Kevin Soodalter, Ron 2009). Fourth, research has been shown on task forces, anti-trafficking groups need to join and cooperate, to share a wider movement

State Department, human trafficking is “one of the greatest human rights challenges of this century” affecting the world and the United States (Lehnardt, 2016). Among other countries, the United States is ranked very high as a destination country of trafficked victims (Lehnardt, 2016). In 2016, the International Labor Organization estimated 40.3 million victims are deceived in trafficking around the world, and with hundreds of thousands in the United States (Global estimates, 2017; Victims, n.d.). Meaning there are 5.9 adult victims for every 1,000 adults and 4.4 child victims for every 1,000 children in the world (Global estimates, 2017). More than 71% of the trafficked victims around the world are women and girls and 29% are men and boys (Human trafficking, 2017). In Texas, the Dallas Women’s Foundation reported that more girls are being trafficked in one month, than those who die by suicide, homicide, and accidents combined (Human, n.d.). In the last five years, trafficking profits grew by nearly 400%, making human trafficking the second most profitable criminal industry in the world and generate around $150 billion dollars globally (Shut out, n.d.). With its fast-growing criminal enterprises, it's anticipated that the drug trade would be surpassed by human trafficking in the next five years (Popp,

For example, the International Labor Organization, which is regarded as one of the most accurate sources on trafficking data and is referred to by organizations worldwide, only began to collect statistical data on human trafficking in 2005 (ILO NEWS). As the issue has become more well known due to increasingly accurate statistics and the rise of globalization, there has been a worldwide acknowledgement of the issue, such as the United Nation's adoption of the protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children in 2000 (Suson). The United Nations has distributed a strategy to combat trafficking through research and awareness raising, promotion of the Protocols, and the strengthening of partnerships and coordination to enact legislation with nations. These partnerships include the many organizations that have been founded in order to combat human trafficking, especially in the last two or so decades. Human trafficking is a horrible crime with a massive amount of worldwide victims that must be stopped and we can take steps towards completing this goal by supporting reputable organizations that fight trafficking and help victims through services that are only possible through monetary

There are many aid projects across the world who claim to help millions of people, but because these aid projects claim to help millions of people, that does not always mean that is the case There are many different aid types, and there can be aid for almost anything an area needs help with. One aid project that not many people know about is called the Polaris Project. After being exposed to a story of six South Korean women being forced to work in a brothel, Katherine Chon and Derek Ellerman were inspired to do something about modern-day slavery (“Katherine Chon and Derek Ellerman: Fighting Human Trafficking" 3). Fast-forward 13 years and the Polaris Project is the world’s leading non-profit human trafficking aid organization in the

Tony Kirwan, founder of Destiny rescue, a relief and aid organization for trafficking victims, said that, “We only have 2 choices. Do nothing, or do something.” Nearly 36 million people are trafficked yearly, and ⅔ of those people are from Asia. A large amount of these victims were impoverished and were looking for work to support their families, or were trafficked by their own families for money. Human trafficking, mostly child trafficking, is a billion dollar business, with earnings estimated at 150 billion yearly, in all of it’s forms. Human trafficking hasn’t and will never be limited to sexual exploitation, but has a myriad of other types of exploitation. Human trafficking has been a system that runs off power abuse and inequality,

Though understanding the root causes of a problem and proper management of victims and affected persons are both important determinants in a global campaign’s success, one of the most influential factor lies with the reaction of the global community and foreign policy. In order to effect change, the issues raised by the campaign must resonate with the international community, especially with people in developed nations and those in power. Relating this to the case of human trafficking, the studies and field of research on the issue have dramatically increased since 2000, due to an increased amount of attention drawn to the global living standards, and creation of NGO’s such as the United Nations.

Each year, thousands of men, woman, and children are victims of human trafficking (UNODC, 2017). According

Global estimates of human trafficking range from six hundred thousand to four million victims each year – the majority being victims of sex trafficking (McCabe, & Manian, 2010). These women, men, and children are considered the backbone of one of the world’s most profitable industries forced to do the unthinkable before being discarded. In response to the overwhelming growth of the business, many nations (including the United States) have set out to prevent, prosecute, and rehabilitate offenders and victims alike. Despite this, many nations struggle to follow the definition of “trafficking” and more people are abducted and sold. As such, revisions to these global efforts need to be made to acknowledge the growing business and to consider

In recent times, the number of human trafficking cases has skyrocketed through the roof. So, what exactly is human trafficking? Human trafficking is defined as a criminal activity, in which people are recruited, harboured, transported, bought or kidnapped for the purposes of exploitation. These exploitations include forced labour, child soldiery, sexual slavery, forced marriages and so on. Statistics show that the main victims of human trafficking consist of women and young girls while children come in a close third (Appendix A). Over the years, human trafficking has become rampant worldwide as the demand for human labour and sex slaves drastically multiplies due to the Internet.

Each year, somewhere between 700,000 and 4 million women, children, and men are trafficked into modern forms of slavery worldwide. Trafficking is a growing phenomenon internationally, and the problem is fueled by poverty, conflict, inadequate female education and economic opportunity and the low value placed on women and children in many parts of the world. It is considered to be a gross violation of women’s rights and a contemporary form of slavery by the international community.