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    Transmitted Infections in Thailand Miami Dade College Abstract Our second team project answers five questions about Case Study #2, Preventing HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Thailand and Chapter 10, Introduction to Global Health. This project will talk about the characteristics of the high-risk population that permitted this intervention to work and the implications of this for replication in other settings. It will explain why Thailand is a model for programs in

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    Prostitution is one of the oldest occupations in history. Even in the early days, in the fertile crescent of Mesopotamia, there was sex trade. When you think of a prostitute, you think of a semi-nude, dirty woman on the sidewalk; however, not all prostitutes work this way. There are call-girls, or escorts, who work in high end places and through agencies. The allotment that people do not focus on is the psychological effects on the prostitutes. According to news.bbc.co.uk, Prostitutes find their

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    Prostitution is one of the largest controversial issue facing the United States. The definition of prostitution, according to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, is the act or practice of engaging in sexual relations especially for the money. Prostitution has been constantly bashed by the media and is currently legal in only one state. In this state, only one county has banned prostitution. Why is it illegal? What is wrong with prostitution that has made it illegal? These are the important questions that

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    Human Trafficking, it happens here, it’s happening now. Imagine a young girl whose family is struggling and unable to provide her with a good education and a woman arrives and offers this young girl a job and a chance to attend school. Since this opportunity is unlikely to be offered at another time, the girl accepts the offer. When this young girl arrives in this supposed “opportunity of a lifetime” it is a living nightmare. The story you’ve just pictured is true in the case of 12 year old Maria

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    The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children proposed an international commitment to prevent the exploitation of children in pornography, trafficking, prostitution, and other crimes of a sexual nature. They suggested the commitment in late 2001, and they committed to improving local, regional, national, and international laws to help combat sexual crimes against minor children. They developed laws to coordinate agencies and push for laws that help prosecute anyone conducting illegal activities

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    Many ethnic groups in the region are relatively new to Thailand, many within the Kingdom of Lanna which was integrated in the late nineteenth century. The mountainous region that northern Thailand is famous for comes out of this land. Other ethnic groups have crossed into Thailand from Burma, Tibet, China, and other countries to escape economic and political unrest. However, almost none of these groups are granted Thai citizenship, despite the fact that many people within them were born on Thai soil

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    Human Trafficking Outline

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    Human trafficking is interesting. The gruesome lifestyle the victims are forced to live is similar to horror movies. Even though people know it will cause you to react negatively, you still pursue to watch it. Human trafficking is: ...recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of threat or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits

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    Legalize Prostitution

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    Prostitution Should Remain Legal! Prostitution should remain illegal do to the fact it is dehumanizing to women, love, and self-respect. Prostitution is dehumanizing to the women who practice it because it shows to regular people that prostitutes are whores. Reason why the public eye thinks prostitutes are whores because you’re selling your body to a random stranger you don’t even know. In prostitution men remove women's humanity. With that said, buying a woman in prostitution gives men the power

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    Sex and Human Trafficking

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    Sex Trafficking Throughout the 21st century, the number of human beings being capture and put into sex trafficking and prostitution has risen. In 2013, about 270,000 young boys, girls, and women were forced into human trafficking in the United States alone and estimated 20.9 million in the world. The UN has also estimated that nearly 4,000,000 are trafficked each year. UNICEF has estimated that as many as 50% of all trafficking victims worldwide are minors and that as many as two thirds of those

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    Legalization of Prostitution Prostitution law varies widely from country to country, and between jurisdictions within a country. Prostitution or sex work is legal in some parts of the world and regarded as a profession, while in other parts it is a crime punishable by death. In many jurisdictions prostitution is illegal. In other places prostitution itself is legal, but surrounding activities are illegal. In other jurisdictions prostitution is legal and regulated. In most jurisdictions which

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