Amelie Rode, Rebeccah Major, and Leah Feghali

 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
 3rd largest criminal
industry in the world,
drug and arms dealing
are first and second

 A market driven criminal
industry (products, food
stuffs, organs, sex)
 Low-risk, high profit
 No wages

 Estimated 30 million
people
 Men
 Women
 Children

 When isn’t it happening?

 Mauritania is last
country to abolish
slavery
 But slavery still
exists there
(estimated 10-20%
of population) and
there are cases of
trafficking all over
the world (estimated
161 countries)

Special Cases: Ivory Coast, Haiti, Somalia

 Threat or use of force
 Coercion
 Abduction
 Fraud
 Deception
 Abuse of power or vulnerability
 Giving payments or benefits

SHORT TERM LONG TERM
 Abuse  Psychological
 Work with no pay  Physical
 STDs
 crippled

SELF OTHERS
 Exploited  Affects family
 No self worth (may members
cause suicidal  Industries
tendencies)

PREDICTABLE UNPREDICTABLE
 No freedom  Psychological
 Not content behavior
 Obstruction of justice

 The trafficked person
doesn’t have any really
safe options
 We can…
 buy fairly traded
products
 Look for Fair Trade
labels
 “Fair Trade Finder” app
 Donate to
organizations
 Raise awareness
 Report suspected
trafficking behavior

 Many industries (shrimp,
chocolate, clothing)
 Pimps
 Gangs/criminal networks
 Brothel and fake
massage business
owners
 Growers and crew
leaders in agriculture
 Labor brokers
 Employers of domestic
servants
 Us.

 The traffickers abduct
people
 Traffickers steal
innocence and rights
 The traffickers “steal” the
people’s abilities and do
not pay them for their
efforts, instead taking the
money for themselves

 Everybody!!
 So trafficking the people made in God’s image
is like slapping God in the face.
 People are supposed to respect God, so
people should respect one another.

 Body: physical abuse/scars, STDs, fatigue
 Heart: ripped apart, emotionally unstable, feel
worthless
 Mind: mentally scarred, innocence lost, loss of
trust
 Soul: may doubt God’s impact on their lives,
may blame Him for situation, may doubt
religion

 Every person is worthy of respect simply by
virtue of being a human being
 Traffickers do not allow their victims to have
the respect they deserve

 We show respect for the Creator by our
stewardship of creation. We have a
responsibility to care for the world’s goods as
stewards and trustees, not just as consumers.
 Traffickers are NOT caring for God’s people

 It is a firm and persevering determination to
commit oneself to the common good; that is
to say, to the good of all and of each
individual, because we are all really
responsible for all.
 In order to contribute to the common good,
we need to do our part to fight human
trafficking

 “Whatever insults human dignity, such as
subhuman living conditions, arbitrary
imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution,
the selling of women and children; as well as
disgraceful working conditions, where men are
treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as
free and responsible persons; all these things and
others of their like are infamies indeed. They
poison human society, but they do more harm to
those who practice them than those who suffer
from the injury.”
The Church and the Modern World, #27

 What: The Polaris Project. Works to fight
human trafficking
 Why: To raise awareness to end this form of
modern day slavery and provide support for
victims
 Who: Founded by Katherine Chon and Derek
Ellerman. Polaris Project has staff of at least
forty people, not including its board members
and volunteers.

 Where: Currently two Polaris Project offices.
One in Washington, D.C. and one in New
Jersey.
 When? Always there and ready to help with
the extermination of human trafficking. Staff
members are on call 24/7 in both offices.

 How: Staff members in the two offices
respond to any human trafficking crisis and
serve the victims with special training they’ve
received. Agency provides services for
survivors including group therapy, transitional
housing, victim outreach, and comprehensive
case management.

 Consequences: Anyone, including victims,
can be influenced by this agency and what it’s
striving for. Agency also helps bring
trafficking victims closer to the freedom that
is rightfully theirs.

 Options: Agency has many options that help
victims get back up on their feet. Also,
National Human Trafficking Resource Center is
the hotline available to all people allowing
them to report incidents of human trafficking
or learn more information on the issue.

 WHAT: 13th Amendment--"Neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude, except as a punishment
for crime whereof the party shall have been
duly convicted, shall exist within the United
States, or any place subject to their
jurisdiction.”
 WHY: to abolish slavery
 WHO: Abraham Lincoln proposed it, passed by
Congress
 WHEN: ratified December 1865

 WHERE: The United
States of America
 HOW: ratification
process
 CONSEQUENCES:
slavery was outlawed,
but was not
exterminated
 OPTIONS: Congress
could have passed it,
Congress could have
not passed it

 WHO: President Barrack Obama
 WHAT: Obama signed an executive order
strengthening protections against human
trafficking for domestic federal contracts, and
tightening anti-trafficking rules for
government contracts abroad worth more
than $500,000
 WHY: because he is against trafficking

 WHEN: September 25th, 2012
 WHERE: United States of America
 HOW: signed the document
 CONSEQUENCES: (hopefully) reduction in
human trafficking
 OPTIONS: he could sign it, he could have not
signed it

 Concert to raise
awareness about
human trafficking
Myanmar
 will be broadcast on
Myanmar national
television and will air
on MTV's international
network in 2013
 first international artist
to perform an open-air
concert in the country
since the end of
military rule last year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAH4dK0wH
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 http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/
 http://www.polarisproject.org/
 http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-
trafficking/index.html