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Kaelyn TaylorGroup Project EssayNot For Sale CampaignHuman Trafficking & SlaveryENGL 2760The Not For Sale campaign is an organization dedicated to bringing awareness and an end to human trafficking and slavery. Their efforts bring forth light to the often overlooked issue of concern for not only one country alone, but the world and all of its areas and cultures. Human Trafficking as well as Human Enslavement is not an issue that was left behind in the 1800s; it is an issue that still threatens the world today, and needs to be put to an end.Though our world’s modern-day trafficking operations are much more evolved and discreet than those of our ancestors, they are no less dangerous nor are they less prominent. Human trafficking has moved into the secrecy of underground and black market style operations, rather than public sales and enslavement of years passed. For those who are not familiar with trafficking, one definition is explained:“Article 3, paragraph (a) of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons defines Trafficking in Persons as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force 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 to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs”Trafficking is considered and treated as a serious crime with which slavery is often a compliment of, however they are not one in the same. CNN defines the difference of slavery and abuse as: “Slavery occurs when one person completely controls another person, using violence or the threat of violence to maintain that control, exploits them economically, pays them nothing and they cannot walk away.”Slavery is often a bi-product of trafficking, which is a form of abuse. To put in perspective the gravity of the situation, there are statistics to easily explain today’s trafficking industry. More than 30 million individuals are victims of human trafficking to date. That means there are more than thirty million men, women, and children that are being kidnapped, beaten, sold, traded, or exchanged against their will in the world today. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “After drug dealing, trafficking of humans is tied with arms dealing as the second-largest criminal industry in the world.” Human trafficking is, as illustrated, a real and serious problem. Human trafficking is an estimated 32 billion dollar industry worldwide. With numbers this high, it is not an issue that can easily be tackled. Trafficking can come in the form of sexual-based enslavement (the avenue that is most discussed), but can also be people exchanged or sold to pay off debt, and even general slave labor akin to African American enslavement by Whites in early American history. With each type of trafficking there are different motives and protocol of sale or exchange, but the heart of each subtype is all within the realm of trafficking. Violence and deception are the most common methods by which people first fall victim to trafficking and eventual slavery. People range from those with low self-esteem whom are deceived into believing there may be a better situation or even love (often associated with women who fall into sex trafficking), those whom are kidnapped, those whom are tricked into “helping” someone who is really “bait” to a bigger operation, and many more instances. Awareness is the first step to ending the atrocities that are being committed throughout the world regarding these issues, but it is not the end of the issue. With awareness brings operations of combating as well as organizations like Not For Sale that strive to end the injustices committed against these innocent victims. Together, we can stop these crimes. ................
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