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M.Nunez Ms. Sanchez Global Issues, Per. 6 1 May 2013 H uman Trafficking

M.Nunez Ms. Sanchez Global Issues, Per. 6 1 May 2013 H uman Trafficking. “ Woman escapes modern-day slavery in a home near the nation's capital.” The Washington Post .Web.16 April 2013

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M.Nunez Ms. Sanchez Global Issues, Per. 6 1 May 2013 H uman Trafficking

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  1. M.NunezMs. Sanchez Global Issues, Per. 6 1 May 2013Human Trafficking “Woman escapes modern-day slavery in a home near the nation's capital.” The Washington Post.Web.16 April 2013 “Anti-Trafficking Legislation Inadequately Combating Sex-trafficking in India.” The human Rights Brief. Web.12March 2013

  2. Country Facts • Country: India • Capital City: New Delhi • Population: 1,220,800,359 • Major or Official Languages: Hindi • Chief Religions: Hindu 80.5% Muslim 13.4%

  3. Government • Type of government: Federal Republic • Current Leader (President): Pranab Mukherjee • Economy: Urban Population (% of people living in cities): 30% of total population • Per Capita GDP $: 1.947 trillion • Per Capita Income (PCI): 3,900 • Important Products / Industries/ Crops: crude oil, precious stones, machinery, fertilizer, iron and steel, chemicals

  4. Education & Health • Geographical Location/ Region: South Asia • Education: Literacy Rate: 61% Ages: 15 over • Health: Life Expectancy: 67.14% • Birth rate: 20.6/1,000 • Infant Mortality: 46.07/1,000 • Country Classification: Developing

  5. Current Event • young girls are brought across all borders in the country are promises of a better life • traffickers tell runaway girls they will find them a better home but most of that is under false pretenses. • Many boys in India were beaten and burned while forced to work in factories • girls where tattooed with bar codes.

  6. Current Event Quote: • “In Mumbai in 2011, 242 sex-trafficking cases were prosecuted and 125 sex-trafficking perpetrators were convicted in accordance with ITPA, resulting in prison terms of three years.”

  7. Current Event • In 2011, India signed the UN TIP, that reaffirming the country’s desire to combat sex trafficking within the country. • goals o are to prevent and combat trafficking and protect and assist the victims of such trafficking, especially women and children.

  8. Current Event Summary Facts • Statistics show that more than 27 million people are trafficked around the world. • The Bureau of Justice statistics estimated the United States had 2,500 cases on human trafficking from 2008 to 2010. • In 2006, a bill to amend the ITPA was proposed by India’s Ministry of Women and Child Development, which would decriminalize prostitution and instead would penalize prostitutes’ clients.

  9. Resolution Commentary • The reasons why people are in to human trafficking is that • poverty .Many people disagree with human trafficking from different countries especially in India • .

  10. COMMENTARY CONTINUED • The people that are mostly affected are young women and men. • People can see that India is trying to decrease the amount of people being trafficking but my young girls want the American dream. • One interesting part is that the captors are friends with the people that they take the girls from

  11. COMMENTARY CONTINUED • Understanding that human trafficking has happened over the years and girls are still gullible to go for it or parents selling them off which is unfair to them because they don’t have money for their daughters. • Parents should be more aware that young girls that go in to human trafficking are told false dream. • Trafficked maids to order: The darker side of richer India

  12. COMMENTARY CONTINUED • All the people in human trafficking should have the opinion of getting an education because they could be the next person to make our world better.

  13. Resolution • Education should be the first priority in any country because there are many brilliant people that can change the world in a good way like stopping poverty and human trafficking. • The author agrees that the Polaris Project has help girls that escape from human trafficking from on Underground Railroad in Washington. • The Polaris Project & ITPA should be all over the country to help young ladies and man to rebuild their lives.

  14. Resolution continued • India should be more aware of children and young adults getting push in to human trafficking and hurting themselves in many ways. • Human trafficking has affected India and all over the country and it has to stop because it will allow traffickers to perpetuate and sustain the slave trade and the violation of victims’ basic human rights.

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