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    Health Care Industry Healthcare providers are extremely important in the fight against sex trafficking. The number of trafficked women who saw a healthcare professional was 28% (Deshpande, 2013). That number increases in the United States, with 50% of victims seeking care while being trafficked (Macias, 2013). Currently the US Department of Health and Human Services has certain questions to screen individuals for sex trafficking. Such as “Where do you sleep and eat?” and “What are your working and living

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    The undergoing issue of sex trade and sex trafficking is going on and affecting underage girls selling their virginity's, sexual abuse and drug use is going on. As it is 2015 this is unacceptable and shouldn't’t be going on in third world countries nor first world countries like the USA and Canada where this is happening. Sex trafficking is were women and children are lied to about a husband in a new country, better job or life style, when in reality they’re forced into sexual slavery. This violates

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    Sex trafficking is basically modern day slavery. It’s terrible, sex traffickers use violence, threats, and lies to compel and trick not only adults, but innocent children to get involved in commercial sex acts against their will. Not only that, but in different countries like Algeria and Cuba they are also dealing with sex trafficking but sometimes the children or adults are used and forced labor upon them. It’s sad and sickening. These sex traffickers take these people and children away from their

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    The Life of Prostitution

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    Did you know the average age of starting prostitution in the U.S is 14 for a girl? 40% were former child prostitutes? And 92% want to leave prostitution? The debate on whether prostitution should be legalized in the United States is not a new one. Ongoing debates surrounding decriminalizing prostitution have been going for years, and countries have been making proposals to do so as well. Some countries, such as The Netherlands, Canada and Australia, Thailand has legalized Prostitution. There are

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    Why The Nationwide Legalization Of Same Sex Marriage Will Greatly Benefit The Economy Same-sex marriage has been a long debated issue in the United States. Since the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage in countries such as Holland, Belgium, and Canada American gay couples have been pushing harder for equal marriage rights under the law. Opponents claim that allowing same-sex unions would not only lead to less stable marriages and higher divorce rates for heterosexual couples, but also precipitate

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    Throughout the Latin American region there are several commonalities in the ways that people are sex trafficked and they are similar to what is seen as elsewhere as well. Some of the primary causes of sex trafficking in the Dominican Republic include deception, the false promise of employment, family-control, and marriage fraud. The Dominican Republic is a special case in the Caribbean as not only does it have traffic routes to other countries within the region but also to regions beyond where neighboring

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    consists of information on the types of trafficking the country has, recommendations, and the efforts done towards prosecution, protection, and prevention. According to the TIP Report, the types of trafficking existing in Guatemala is sex trafficking, foreign child sex tourism, forced labor, and domestic servitude through forced marriages (U.S. Department of the State, 2016). To fight these types of trafficking, the recommendations made for Guatemala has the ability to increase assistance for victims,

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    Child Trafficking “The global market of child trafficking is at over $12 billion a year with over 2 million child victims” (“Stop Child Trafficking Now” 1). This statement from the article “Stop Child Trafficking Now” describes how serious this crisis is nationwide. Child labor, illegal adoptions and child prostitution are the three forms child trafficking typically exists as (“Riverkids Project” 1). There has been a rising number of Cambodian children being trafficked for sexual exploitation

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    periods and they were considered to be the weaker sex, food giver and sex object. Her status and dignity as a woman is not accepted in society as well as at home. Our history reveals many instances how she is meted out injustice, deprived of her basic needs and even fundamental rights. From the position of a deity she is degraded into a prostitute who sells her body for money due to miserable living condition, poverty and starvation. Such survival sex can be vividly seen in Jayanta Mahapatra’s poem

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    Why Countries are Reluctant to Effectively Combat Human Trafficking It is a crime that involves 21 million people worldwide, affects all areas from the slums and tribal villages to the skyscraper-filled metropolises, and pervades gender, ethnicity, and class (International Labour Organization 2014). Villains in the narrative range from prominent political figures, internationally organized rings, and even a victim’s own family members. The modus operandi? Emotional, mental, and physical abuse; fear

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