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    Modern Day Slavery: Human Trafficking

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    three out of every 1,000 people worldwide are being forced into this such slavery. Victims of human trafficking are people of all backgrounds and ages, no one is safe from the dirty hands of human traffickers. Every year thousands of men, women, and children are forced into human trafficking the public needs to be informed, enhance penalties

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    Human Trafficking

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    Section One: This bill will work with the U.S government to educate women and young children who may become victims of trafficking, spread awareness, and to have more efficient programs to help the trafficking victims recover. Section Two: Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world, currently second after illegal drug-trade. Human trafficking is a violation of human rights and considered to be a form of modern day slavery, the illegal trade of humans for forced labor

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    (2010, September 23). HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN ANDYOUTH INTHE UNITED STATES (L. Catherine, Ed.). Retrieved March 23, 2015, from http://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/chrc/pdfs/Conference_Outcome_Document_2011.pdf Human trafficking is one of the most shocking human rights violations of mankind. It is a form of present day slavery, where men, women, and children are forced to perform manual labor or sexual services. This contains (but is not restricted

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    Evaluation of “OUT OF THE DARK” A program for Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth By Rachel Barnes PC6521 Research & Program Evaluation Professor Barclay 10/22/2014 As a solution to the problem of youth who are being exploited sexually I have come up with a program that can aid our youth in not becoming a victim of the streets. This program will help teens that are current prostitutes, those who are trying to escape the life, and those who are thinking about becoming one. With the

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    “Walsh considered the new bill that was about to go before Congress the capstone of a life’s work removing impediments to the recovery of the nearly 800,000 children who are reported missing in the U.S each year”. Policy Solution The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act Public Law 109-248 of the 109th Congress is defined as to protect children from sexual exploitation and violent crime, to prevent child abuse and child pornography, to promote internet safety and to honor the memory of Adam Walsh

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    Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation Anti-Human Trafficking Response Team Protocol (DRAFT) Intent and Purpose The Domestic, Sex, and Labor Trafficking are steadily increasing within Florida. The recovery of children and adult victims from this illicit industry takes the effort of multi-agency resources to include Law Enforcement, Social Services, as well as members from the public, specifically Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO). In an effort to enhance the recovery of victims of all forms

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    Where does your mind wander when someone talks about child trafficking? Do you think of children from third world countries being kidnapped or sold into the black market of human trafficking? Most of us probably think of human trafficking as being an issue that poor countries just have but, that isn’t the case. Human trafficking is alive and sadly thriving in the United States. According to Trafficking Source Center, 5,544 cases of human trafficking were reported in the United States in 2015. With human

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    mouse to his cheese. From now on my life will change, I am now at the mercy of human traffickers, while he finds another doe-eyed girl to fool. To put this encounter into perspective,”1 in 6 of the 18,500 runaways reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in 2016 were likely sex trafficking victims.” (“Child sex trafficking”). According to the Department of Homeland Security, “Human trafficking is modern-day slavery and involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some

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    men, and children. This issue is the third largest global criminal enterprise. So what is the issue? The issue is modern day slavery, better known as human trafficking. Worldwide, there are over 20 million human trafficking victims, and of that 26% are children, and 55% are women and girls. In 2015 it was reported that 1 out of 5 endangered runaways reported to the National Center of Exploited and Missing Children were likely sex trafficking victims; furthermore, 74% of them were children in the care

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    trafficking. It is known as being modern slavery. Child trafficking cases has been reported in all 50 states (History.com, 2016). Children around the world are being taken advantage of because they are the most vulnerable targets. Some don’t have a choice in whether they want to work or not and are being badly abused or even killed if they refuse to do so. Children are having babies, getting hooked on drugs, being sexually assaulted, used and abused. Some are catching diseases and even dying. They

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