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Human Trafficking In America Is the Most Important Social Issue of Our Times Just what is human trafficking? Even though act of human trafficking has been going on for decades, it has only been a couple of years (2000) since the US Trafficking Protocol (the Palermo Protocol of 2000, an international legal agreement attached to the United Nations) was established containing the first internationally agreed upon definition of human trafficking with the knowing that it's the force, fraud, and coercion from one person to the next that defines the essence of the crime. People often tell me they think human trafficking is moving folks from one country to another, and while that is a part of what the act really is, the heart of the issue is the mental and emotional movement of an individual by another. The U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) (created due to the UN Protocol) leaves out what things to me is the most significant aspect of the definition and therefore helps it be more difficult to prove a case in court against alleged traffickers. The center 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 usage of force or other styles of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a posture of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or advantages to achieve the consent of a person having control over someone else, for the purpose of exploitation. The US-TVPA is weak and really should use in it the terminology consistent with the U.N. Protocol because 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 focusing on how to deceive and manipulate them - the worst type of abduction - by causing someone to lose rely upon those they should trust the most. It takes 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 methods of trafficking have been the focus and prohibit real discovery into the reality of what is causing modern-day slavery. Poverty, homelessness, runaways, broken families, high school drop-out rates, pornography (media): each are stand-alone social issues that merit our time and attention. innocentsatrisk.org brings using them a different group of issues that demand attention from those people who are whole inside our society. Yet when we look at human trafficking, we see many of these issues wrapped up in to the one almost such as a domino effect. Each of these issues is really a contributing factor to those areas fueling human trafficking. And, I dare say, each one 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.
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