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Just what is human trafficking?
Although the act of human trafficking has been going on for many years, it has only been a few years (2000) since the United Nations Trafficking Protocol (the Palermo Protocol of 2000, a global legal agreement attached to the United Nations) was established containing the initial internationally agreed upon definition of human trafficking with the knowing that it’s the force, fraud, and coercion in one person to the next that defines the essence of this crime.
People often tell me they think human trafficking is moving people from one country to another, and while that is a part of what the act is really, the heart of the issue is the mental and emotional movement of a person by another. The U.S. Trafficking innocentsatrisk.org of 2000 (TVPA) (created as a result of the UN Protocol) leaves out what to me is the most important aspect of the definition and therefore makes it more challenging to prove an incident in court against alleged traffickers.
The heart of the U.N. Trafficking Protocol defines human trafficking as: the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by way of the threat or use of force or other styles 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 advantages to achieve the consent of an individual having control over someone else, for the intended purpose of exploitation.
The US-TVPA is weak and should include in it the terminology consistent with the U.N. Protocol since it further distinguishes that traffickers use deception, and abuse of power, or of a posture of vulnerability, when seeking their victims. Traffickers look for the vulnerable knowing how to deceive and manipulate them – the worst type of abduction – by causing one to lose trust in those they ought to trust the most. It requires a lifetime to “re-program” someone who has been manipulated in this manner.
Human trafficking must be placed near the top of the set of crucial social issues.
In current human trafficking advocacy circles, traditional ways of trafficking have been the focus and prohibit real discovery in to the reality of what is causing modern-day slavery. Poverty, homelessness, runaways, broken families, high school drop-out rates, pornography (mass media): each are stand-alone social issues that merit our time and attention. Each brings using them a different set of problems that demand attention from those people who are whole in our society. Yet whenever we look at human trafficking, we see all these issues wrapped up in to the one almost like a domino effect. Each one of these issues is really a contributing factor to those areas fueling human trafficking. And, I dare say, each of these issues are due to one giant controlling the United States and manipulating our every move – greed. Traffickers not merely search for vulnerable and at-risk youth, they target the male population to enlist them as buyers.