“As long as the mind is enslaved the body can never be free. Psychological freedom and a firm sense of self-esteem is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery ” – Martin Luther King Jr. Slavery is a deep-rooted global phenomenon that manifests in the form of sex trafficking, bonded labor, and organ trafficking. It has become a rapid growing infection that has entrapped, murdered, and enslaved millions of innocent individuals. Every year in the United States and across the world, millions of men, women, and children are taken as slaves and illegally trafficked for exploitation or commercial gain. According to the International Labor Organization (2012) it estimates that there are 4.5 million people who are victims
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and international determinations to eradicate it, continues to occur in practically in every country in the world. According to a 2012 U.N. report, authorities, between 2007 and 2010, from 118 different countries, detected trafficking victims comprising at least 136 nationalities. Unfortunately, human sex trafficking is a major U.S foreign policy problem that has become a homegrown issue of American children and women being exploited and trafficked for commercial sex. Throughout the United States, traffickers are sexually exploiting humans through street prostitution, illegal brothels, motel rooms, and other locations. Your daughter, son, neighbor, friend, or relative of any social-economical class and race can become slaves of sex trafficking. For this reason, we must aggressively fight to end all human trafficking because if you allow for one single seed of slavery to remain in America, then that seed will create roots that will destroy and poison the fair fruits of …show more content…
government has long played an important role in international efforts to fight human trafficking, with Congress in particular driving modern-day U.S. foreign policy responses. Initially U.S foreign policies focused on combating forced labor practices and eventually expanded to cover broader concepts of human trafficking it focus shifted on the eradication of human sex trafficking. Such foreign policies include: Tariff Act of 1930, Trade Preference Program Eligibility, Executive Memorandum on Steps to Combat Violence Against Women and Trafficking in Women and Girls, Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, which was amended and reauthorized in 2003, 2005, and 2008, National Security Presidential Directive 22, and Executive Order 13627. First, Tariff Act of 1930 Section 307, banned the import of foreign “goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part” by the use of indentured or force labor. The DHS (U.S Department of Homeland Security) established the provisions of Section 307 by upholding public list of such prohibited goods and barring entry of such products into the United States. Second, Trade Preference Program Eligibility chooses specific countries to receive provisional, nonreciprocal, duty-free U.S. market access for certain exports on condition that they obey to international recognized worker rights including prohibitions on forced labor, as well as abolish the vilest forms of child labor, including child
and international determinations to eradicate it, continues to occur in practically in every country in the world. According to a 2012 U.N. report, authorities, between 2007 and 2010, from 118 different countries, detected trafficking victims comprising at least 136 nationalities. Unfortunately, human sex trafficking is a major U.S foreign policy problem that has become a homegrown issue of American children and women being exploited and trafficked for commercial sex. Throughout the United States, traffickers are sexually exploiting humans through street prostitution, illegal brothels, motel rooms, and other locations. Your daughter, son, neighbor, friend, or relative of any social-economical class and race can become slaves of sex trafficking. For this reason, we must aggressively fight to end all human trafficking because if you allow for one single seed of slavery to remain in America, then that seed will create roots that will destroy and poison the fair fruits of …show more content…
government has long played an important role in international efforts to fight human trafficking, with Congress in particular driving modern-day U.S. foreign policy responses. Initially U.S foreign policies focused on combating forced labor practices and eventually expanded to cover broader concepts of human trafficking it focus shifted on the eradication of human sex trafficking. Such foreign policies include: Tariff Act of 1930, Trade Preference Program Eligibility, Executive Memorandum on Steps to Combat Violence Against Women and Trafficking in Women and Girls, Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, which was amended and reauthorized in 2003, 2005, and 2008, National Security Presidential Directive 22, and Executive Order 13627. First, Tariff Act of 1930 Section 307, banned the import of foreign “goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part” by the use of indentured or force labor. The DHS (U.S Department of Homeland Security) established the provisions of Section 307 by upholding public list of such prohibited goods and barring entry of such products into the United States. Second, Trade Preference Program Eligibility chooses specific countries to receive provisional, nonreciprocal, duty-free U.S. market access for certain exports on condition that they obey to international recognized worker rights including prohibitions on forced labor, as well as abolish the vilest forms of child labor, including child