Combating Human Trafficking: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach

✍ Scribed by Kathryn Cullen-DuPont

• Publisher: Facts On File, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, CRC Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 316
• Series: Global issues (Facts on File, Inc.)
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Human trafficking is one of the most urgent political challenges of our global age. As the UN defines it, human trafficking is essentially a form of non-institutional slavery, but also includes the trafficking of human organs. It has been resistant to abolition and difficult to combat. Human trafficking is organized through networks and is clandestine in nature, making it very hard for governments to even detect. Yet it is arguably the most severe form of human exploitation in the world. Traffickers trade in the immediate human suffering of their ‘goods’. Human trafficking is a pressing political issue for two key reasons. First, because its victims are often subjected to virtual slavery, exposing them to severe physical and mental abuse. Their rights are brutally violated and they are robbed of their f- damental freedom and dignity. The severity and estimated scope of this abuse has made the issue a priority for the American and German governments. Second, - man trafficking is estimated to be one of the top three sources of income globally, for organized crime. Only trafficking in drugs and arms surpasses human trafficking as a means for such illegal networks to generate funds. Criminal networks undermine the integrity of democratic states and destabilize their social and economic order. - come generated from human trafficking provides such networks with the resources they need to sustain a wide range of harmful activities

✦ Table of Contents

Content: At issue. Human trafficking ; Historical overview ; Defining the victims of human trafficking ; The international exploitation of trafficked persons ; Causes of human trafficking ; International efforts to end human trafficking --
Focus on United States. The United States's role in trafficking ; Origins of persons trafficked to the United States ; Exploitation of trafficked persons in the United States ; Considerations particular to trafficking in the United States ; U.S. efforts to end human trafficking --
Global perspectives. Netherlands ; Nigeria ; India ; Belize --
Primary sources. United States documents. Legislation and executive orders ; Media, briefs, and press releases ; Forced labor and domestic servitude ; Sex trafficking ; Child sexual exploitation ; U.S. efforts to end human trafficking --
International documents. International treaties and declarations ; International accounts of human trafficking ; Netherlands ; Nigeria ; India ; Belize --
Research tools. How to research human trafficking. Researching chattel slavery ; Modern-day slavery --
Facts and figures. Human trafficking in the world ; Fighting human trafficking ; Global maps and routes ; Inequality and human trafficking --
Key players, A to Z --
Organizations and agencies --
Annotated bibliography. Belize ; Chattel slavery ; Child marriage, forced marriage, and Council-ordered punishment rapes/marriages ; Child soldiers ; Forced labor ; India ; Involuntary domestic servitude ; Netherlands ; Nigeria ; Poverty ; Scope and magnitude of international human trafficking ; Sex tourism ; Sex trafficking ; Trafficking for involuntary organ harvests ; Trafficking for infants ; United States.
Abstract:

Describes the suffering caused by human trafficking as well as the financial, cultural, and other conditions that make trafficking within national borders and between far-flung 'origin' and 'destination' countries possible. This title examines how human trafficking is conducted in the United States, the Netherlands, Nigeria, India, and Belize. Read more...