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Make Sense of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
Make Sense of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
1. Dehumanization is the first step in enslavement. The person's dignity is eroded, not only in the eyes of their trafficker but in their very own eyes. The person is robbed of themselves.
2. Violence is the tool by which slaves are made and kept in slavery. It takes many forms, such as force, fraud, and coercion. It is often subtle in nature, with no visible signs.
3. Demand for the labor, and for even the bodies, of the enslaved is the engine that propels human trafficking and modern slavery. Without demand there can be no slavery.
4. Money is often the motivator behind the trafficking of persons into a life of slavery. Criminal syndicates and organized criminal gangs make immense profits at little risk.
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Podcasts and Briefings
Podcasts and Briefings
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Ep1: Making Sense of Modern Slavery
Ep1: Making Sense of Modern Slavery
We start by fostering a deeper understanding of modern slavery and human trafficking, moving beyond mere awareness toward making sense of them both. We define human trafficking as a trade in human beings, emphasizing the concept of exploitation, and clarifying the distinctions between trafficking and smuggling. The podcast utilizes the Palermo Protocol's definition of trafficking, and highlights the U.S. State Department's Trafficking in Persons Report as a valuable resource. Finally, it underscores the pervasiveness of modern slavery globally, citing statistics and urging listeners to learn more.
Ep2: The Process Of Making Slaves
Ep2: The Process Of Making Slaves
This episode, the second in our series, builds upon the previous episode's foundations by examining the process of human trafficking, highlighting the vulnerability exploited by traffickers, and detailing the methods used to recruit, control, and dehumanize victims into a life of modern slavery. The podcast emphasizes the importance of understanding human trafficking as a process involving recruitment, debt bondage, and psychological manipulation, contrasting it with common misconceptions, and finally, connects the realities of modern slavery to violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Ep3: Internal Trafficking
Ep3: Internal Trafficking
Exploitation serves a demand, often facilitated by pre-existing vulnerabilities like poverty or political instability. It is a misconception to belief human trafficking exists to exploit vulnerability. In this episode we introduce the concept of internal trafficking, where exploitation occurs within a community, illustrated by examples like children being used in criminal activities in Ireland. Finally, we highlight the complexity of understanding human trafficking and advocate for the pursuit of truth, despite its untidy realities.
Ep4: Juju and Human Trafficking
Ep4: Juju and Human Trafficking
Cultural beliefs from West Africa are being weaponized to facilitate human trafficking. A composite case study illustrates how Juju priests facilitate the swearing of oaths to ensnare thousands. These victims of modern slavery are primarily women and girls, from Nigeria. They are brought to Europe where they become mere commodities to be bought and sold. It is probable human traffickers have learned to use cultural beliefs in other parts of the world for the same purpose. Awareness of these events is critical in combating modern slavery.
Ep5: Technology and Modern Slavery
Ep5: Technology and Modern Slavery
We challenge the assumption that modern slavery is a relic of the past, exploring how technological progress can both exacerbate and mitigate this issue. Examples range from the cotton gin's impact on slavery in the United States to the use of technology in modern-day fishing and organ trafficking. It highlights the need to question assumptions about the rationality of slavery and our own potential complicity in its continuation.
Ep6: Trafficking For Organ Removal
Ep6: Trafficking For Organ Removal
We look at the story of Daniel, who was targeted by traffickers for organ removal. Deceptive and coercive methods are often used to obtain organs, usually targeting vulnerable individuals. While the overall number of reported cases is low, experts believe the true extent of the problem is significantly larger due to underreporting and difficulty in detection. Cases are discussed, illustrating the international nature of this crime and its connections to larger criminal networks.
Ep7: Slavery And The West
Ep7: Slavery And The West
We scrutinize the 2024 Trafficking in Persons Report's focus on human trafficking in the Western Hemisphere. We highlight shared challenges across the region, including the vulnerability of migrants to exploitation, weak efforts to combat forced labor, and insufficient victim protection. Significant shortcomings in law enforcement and judicial responses are also detailed, alongside a lack of resources and interagency coordination. The pervasiveness of child trafficking is visited and the need for improved data collection and reporting.
Ep8: Modern Slavery In The USA
Ep8: Modern Slavery In The USA
We look at modern slavery and human trafficking in the USA today, focusing on the forms of exploitation, the places where it takes place, and the sources of vulnerability that facilitate it. We reflect on law enforcement efforts, prosecution data, and victim protection measures, such as immigration relief programs. Prevention strategies are also discussed, focusing on addressing vulnerabilities within various sectors and communities, particularly among Indigenous populations and temporary workers.
Ep9: At Freedom's Crossroads
Ep9: At Freedom's Crossroads
This episode delves into part of David Lohan's book, highlighting the inherent contradiction between America's founding principles of freedom and equality and the reality of slavery. It also explores how violence stripped individuals of their humanity, creating the "slave" identity. The complex economic factors sustaining slavery are revealed, showing how the market rationale shaped the lives of enslaved people, turning them into commodities valued for their economic utility.
Ep10: How many slaves work for you?
Ep10: How many slaves work for you?
How many slaves work for you? You might think none, but is that really true? In this episode, we explore a method to find out, urging listeners to assess their own contribution to modern slavery through an online survey. We also discuss how both abolitionists like Harriet Beecher Stowe and pro-slavery advocates like Edmund Ruffin believed that consumers, not just slave traders, bear significant responsibility. Consumers play a crucial role in perpetuating slavery, both historically and in the present day.
Ep11: Slavery's 4Ds
Ep11: Slavery's 4Ds
Behind the statistics are real people whose lives are shattered by exploitation. There is an inherent human aversion to slavery, instinctively recognizing it as a state of fear, powerlessness, and suffering. This understanding itself offers some insight into slavery. The types of labor typically associated with slavery. These are characterized as "dirty, dangerous, degrading, or deadly" (the 4Ds). This points to a concept of certain activities or crops as being inherently compatible with slavery and explains why they are repeatedly associated with cases of slavery.
Ep12: Cut From The Same Cloth
Ep12: Cut From The Same Cloth
Sex trafficking is a major contributor to global human trafficking. Some argue for a distinction between prostitution and sex trafficking. No such distinction should be made. They are inextricably linked and they are "cut from the same cloth".
Ultimately it is the demand for commercial sexual services which has delivered innumerable women and children into the sex trade. A truly progressive society cannot align itself with an utterly regressive sector. If as citizens we want a better world, then we should start by fighting the attitudes that allow women and girls to be bought and sold.
David Lohan's mission is to empower readers to make sense of human trafficking and modern slavery.
He aims to shed light on what is happening globally, on the reasons behind it, and the actions that can be taken to combat them.
With tens of millions enslaved and hundreds of billions generated annually from these illicit activities, modern slavery is
a critical Human Rights issue
that cannot be ignored.
FAQs
FAQs
What is the meaning of trafficking?
What is the meaning of trafficking?
Answer: Trafficking means trade. In the context of human trafficking, it refers to the illegal trade of humans for the purposes of forced labor, sexual exploitation, or other forms of exploitation. It involves the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons through force, fraud, or coercion. Trafficking is a severe violation of human rights and is considered a form of modern-day slavery.
Key Aspects of Trafficking:
Exploitation: The primary goal of trafficking is to exploit individuals for labor or sexual services.
Coercion: Traffickers often use threats, violence, or deceit to control their victims.
Movement: While trafficking can involve moving victims across borders, it can also occur within a single country or community.
Example: Imagine a person from a rural area who is promised a job in the city with good pay. Upon arrival, their documents are confiscated, and they are forced to work long hours in a factory with little or no pay. They are threatened with harm if they try to leave or seek help. This scenario exemplifies labor trafficking, where the individual is exploited through deceit and coercion for profit.
What is a trafficker?
What is a trafficker?
Answer: A trafficker is an individual or a group involved in the illegal trade of humans for the purposes of exploitation. This exploitation can include forced labor, sexual exploitation, or other forms of servitude. Traffickers use various methods such as force, fraud, or coercion to recruit, transport, and control their victims.
Key Aspects of a Trafficker:
Recruitment: Traffickers often lure victims with false promises of employment, education, or a better life.
Manipulation: They use manipulation, threats, and violence to maintain control over their victims.
Profit: The primary motive for traffickers is financial gain, often through the exploitation of their victims' labor or services.
Example: Consider a scenario where a young person is approached by someone offering a job in another city. The job promises high pay and good working conditions. Once the person agrees, the trafficker takes them to the new location, confiscates their identification documents, and forces them into a situation where they must work under harsh conditions with little or no pay. The trafficker uses threats and violence to prevent the person from leaving or seeking help. This situation illustrates how traffickers operate by deceiving and coercing their victims for profit.
The concept of trafficking as trade?
The concept of trafficking as trade?
It is an important concept. It hints at traffickers being middlemen in a market. There are a few parts to this market:
It is an important concept. It hints at traffickers being middlemen in a market. There are a few parts to this market:
1. the supply of the item or people to be traded.
1. the supply of the item or people to be traded.
2. the customer demand for the item or the people to be traded.
3. the traffickers who bring supply and demand together.
What is Human Trafficking?
What is Human Trafficking?
Human Trafficking is a trade in human beings. In other words, it is modern slavery. Victims of this slavery are subjected to a process of enslavement. The idea making sense of human trafficking as modern slavery is a useful one as we tend to instinctively have a sense of slavery and slaves.
What is Trafficking In Persons?
What is Trafficking In Persons?
Trafficking In Persons is another name for Human Trafficking.
Trafficking In Persons is another name for Human Trafficking.
What is Trafficking In Human Beings?
What is Trafficking In Human Beings?
Trafficking In Human Beings is another name for Human Trafficking.
What is a Human Trafficker?
Trafficking In Human Beings is another name for Human Trafficking.
What is a Human Trafficker?
A human trafficker, sometimes referred to as just a trafficker, is a person who trades in human beings or in the exploitation of human beings.
A human trafficker, sometimes referred to as just a trafficker, is a person who trades in human beings or in the exploitation of human beings.
Defining Human Trafficking?
Defining Human Trafficking?
The Palermo Protocol defines human trafficking as acts of:
(a) ... 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;
(b) The consent of a victim of trafficking in persons to the intended exploitation set forth in subparagraph (a) of this article shall be irrelevant where any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) have been used;
(c) The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation shall be considered "trafficking in persons" even if this does not involve any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) of this article;
(d) "Child" shall mean any person under eighteen years of age.
The defintition is made up of three parts: acts, means and purpose. It specifies that where a child is victimized, the means by which it their exploitation occurs become irrelevant.
How can the lessons of the slave trade help us understand and combat modern human trafficking and slavery?
How can the lessons of the slave trade help us understand and combat modern human trafficking and slavery?
The history of the transatlantic slave trade offers essential lessons for addressing modern human trafficking and slavery:
Economic Exploitation: Both the slave trade and modern slavery are driven by economic greed. Targeting industries that prioritize profit over human rights can help combat exploitation.
Systemic Inequality: Just as the slave trade was rooted in system inequality, today’s trafficking often affects marginalized communities. Reducing inequality can lower the risk of exploitation.
Global Networks: The slave trade operated globally, similar to human trafficking today. International cooperation is crucial for dismantling trafficking networks.
Legal Frameworks: Abolishing the slave trade required legal efforts. Strong anti-trafficking laws and enforcement are vital today.
Public Awareness: Raising awareness helped end the slave trade. Modern campaigns can educate people about trafficking signs and ethical practices.
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