Child+Prostitution+and+Human+Trafficking

By: Marissa Egloff, Allie Glick, Julia Paulk and Xiao Zhang

Trafficking is the transport of human beings being forced to work in the goal of making a profit. It is one of the fastest growing crimes in the world however, it is nearly impossible to prosecute. Over 27 million people all around the world are sold into trafficking and child prostitution. Some locations are shown to be more active in trafficking, but it happens everywhere. Women are most commonly trafficked in the method of tricking. In some countries, there are myths about age in prostitution. Many of the customers believe that a pure child will cure their diseases, which is one of the main reasons prostitution is targeted towards children in many countries. "It is a common practice to persuade a young woman to leave home and to move to a wealthier neighboring country where she can work in domestic service, child or adult care, or as a waitress in a restaurant or a bar, or perhaps as a dancer. Upon arrival, her passport, visa, and return tickets are taken from her and, effectively, she is imprisoned, either physically or financially or mentally. She is made to work as a domestic slave or as an agricultural or factory worker, under slave-like conditions, or in a brothel. She sees virtually none of the money that she earns, and eventually she will be sold."  Honor and disgrace is a large factor in trafficking. Once a girl has been sold into prostitution, the trip home may be very difficult. The family and village may disgrace the person in order to uphold honor in their village. This means that the former prostitute can be found homeless and in a brutal situation.
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Most people think of child prostitution to be in foreign countries however, it can happen in your own backyard. In Buffalo, New York, November of 2010, there was a trafficking location discovered. media type="custom" key="8466410"media type="custom" key="8418444" (//wkbw.com/news/local)//
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Everyday hundreds of children are sold for 7,000- 40,000 Yuan, the equivalently of 1,000- 6,074 U.S Dollars. This is more than children are sold for in most countries, but this does have an effect on the act that is being done to these children. Most child prostitutes in China are sold by their parents, so that the family can make money to survive. In some cases the children are kidnapped into the sex slavery industry. They are then forced into labor against their will. ( //[])// Child Prostitution and Human Trafficking) media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=vietnam+&sll=42.92198,-78.810859&sspn=0.14984,0.215607&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Vietnam&ll=14.058324,108.277199&spn=49.307325,55.195312&z=4&output=embed" width="425" height="350"
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An estimated 10,000-15,000 women and children are sold into prostitution in Nepal each year. The acts of sexual exploitation and involuntary labor are forced upon them. As illustrated in the book //Sold// by Patricia McCormick, women are sold everyday into brothels. These terrible places such as the Red Light District represent the depression of the prostitution rates in these areas. For example humans are sold for 800 Rupees, which only amounts to about 17 U.S. Dollars. This shocking number shows how their is not value shown in the women that are being sold in Nepal.
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** "Seema had left the poverty of her home village to work in Kathmandu. She was barely twelve when a smooth- talking flesh trader lured her to Bombay with talk of a better job. She hoped to become a film star. Instead she was sold into a brothel. At first she resisted, screaming, crying and fighting off prospective customers, but the madam who ran the brothel would have none of it. She sent in a muscled toughie to hold the girl down while an old man raped her. The pain was so intense that Seema lost consciousness and had to be hospitalised for a week. After that it was back to the brothel where the other child prostitutes told her she could not win this battle. But Seema's spirit was not broken. Nine months later she escaped for the brothel and boarded a train, hoping to eventually get back home. A soft-spoken lady promised help. She lured the young girl to Calcutta and sold her. Seema had only escaped from one brothel into another. Now Seema appears resigned to her fate. She hits the streets of central Calcutta as soon as it gets dark and stands near a lamp-post soliciting customers. Her parents in Nepal have no idea where their daughter is. She does not have the courage to tell them, and anyway, they probably think she is dead. It is better that way..." ( ** []) (//Sex Trafficking of Women In Nepal)// =====

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 * [|http://www.notforsalecampaign.org][[image:Slavery_Map.PNG width="800" height="507" link="http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/"]][|/] - //(map to end prostitution slavery)//