Sex Trafficking in France
France is a large and diverse country, but due to overpopulation and extreme amounts of tourism the people in the country are vulnerable and unaware of its dark side. France is known around the world for its combination of food, art, and people, but the hidden truth behind all of its charm is its current involvement in modern day slavery. Due to sex trafficking, its charm is diminishing drastically. The government needs to make sex trafficking incidents in the country more aware to the French people and the world. If drastic measures are not taken immediately, the country’s charm will be demolished. On the outside, the rest of the world sees the illusion of French charm, they see a country full of life, but on the inside, it is really filled with corruption.
Imagine walking across the Lovelock Bridge in Paris. You feel the chill of the air and if you look far enough, you can see the Eiffel Tower. The smell of Chanel Number Five and your new Christian Louboutin heels are all you can think about. You go and sit down at Coutume Café on the Upper East Side. You soak in your surroundings and see that the cafe is filled with laughing children, avid book readers and couples that are madly in love. While you are admiring your surroundings, a man appears and sits down in the seat in front of you. You both talk for hours on end about how he has traveled the world to places you have only dreamt of going to. He asks to share a cab and invites you to a party. After finding out where you are staying, he abducts you at a moments notice. After waking up in a small, filthy, room with shackles on your ankles, you realized you have been taken. Forget about what you have seen about France in movies and fashion magazines; bec...
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The significance of this publication is to promote awareness on the issue of sex trafficking.
Many organizations and programs are working to stop human trafficking and its insubordinate criminals. Organizations, such as the United Nations Conven...
What is Human Trafficking? “Human trafficking refers to the recruiting, transporting, enslaving, or receiving of people in order to exploit abuse them (Pubantz, Jerry, and Allphin Moore Jr.).” In nineteenth century France, prostitution was a common form of human trafficking.
Historically, there was a close cultural link between southern France and Asia Minor. It appears that Iren...
CTV News shared breaking news on October, 23, 2013 that four Romanian women were found being victimized to human trafficking in Montreal. These women were lured to Canada hoping that they would find a better future but instead were forced into prostitution (2013). Human trafficking is an issue that is rarely acknowledged by Canadians. Most people are either unaware of the problem or do not recognize it as something that is happening in their own backyard. Although Canadians are exposed to the severity of human trafficking in other countries, Canadian citizens are unaware of the fact that Canada is not only a transit point for the United States but also a destination country. Information from the Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre states “The RCMP estimates that 600-800 persons are trafficked into Canada annually, predominantly for sexual purposes, also additional 1,500-2,200 people are trafficked through Canada and into the United states” (2010). Canada is a source of transit and destination for human trafficking, some of the victims being as young as twelve years old (Human trafficking, 2010). The definition of what human trafficking is focusing on who the victims are and who the traffickers, the increase in trafficking due to globalization, and the role Canada plays in preventing it will all be explained further.
When we think of slavery today, our minds usually drift off into colonial America, where slavery was not only condoned but seen as a way of life by many. Slavery has since been banned in America, and all around the world. With that said, however, slavery still exists in all areas of the world. As a society of predominantly “good men” and women, we have done nothing – or very little – about a demon that plagues all of Eastern Europe, and whose influence spans the entire globe. These demons are the Ukraine sex syndicates that comb the countryside of former soviet nations for fresh prey. They are efficient, ruthless and brutal in each step of the trafficking process, from the recruiters to the brothel owners. They threaten, beat and rape their victims into submission. Even the local police are powerless to stop these atrocities. It is said One quarter of all women trafficked globally are taken illegally from Central and Eastern Europe as well as the former Soviet Block countries. Officials estimate that in Europe alone this affects more than 200,000 women and girls, half of which end up in Western Europe and one fourth in the United States.[1] Most end up working as enslaved prostitutes, with no chance of a bright future. With very little public awareness about the issue, little to no support and protection for victums, and barley any enforcement of anti trafficking laws, it seems that unless society at large rises up to combat the challenge there is no hope for these poor women
There is no specific date known for when France came to be; nobody woke up one day and said, “I live in France.” Nevertheless, a date can be estimated, and that date is considered to be the beginning of France is in 476 AD, when the Western Roman Empire fell. However, a more specific date can be set, and this was when the empire belonging to Charles the Great was split among his heirs, around 843 AD.
In comparison, many other countries have geared towards adopting policies that deal with human sex trafficking. The European Union’s tactic to trafficking begins from a gender and human rights perspective and focuses on prevention, prosecution of criminals and protection of victims. These ideals can be reflected in Directive on trafficking in human beings adopted on March 21, 2011. Much like U.S foreign policies dealing with human trafficking, the Directive focus is committing to the prevention of and fights against trafficking in human beings, and to the protection of the rights of trafficked persons. Within the Asian continent twenty-three out of the twenty-seven countries opt to adopt specific legislative provisions to fight human trafficking
Between 2007 and 2010 there were around 118 countries and 136 different nationalities that fell victim to traffickers (united nations publications, 2012). If we want to continue successful globalization patterns, we need to crack down on punishment for those who commit these crimes. In his article “A Decade in Review…” Luis CdeBaca states that prevention, protection, and prosecution are the key to stopping this global trend (CdeBaca, 2008). All three need to be implemented together and will not work independently. Preventing trafficking begins with prosecution of criminals. But often, prosecution can’t occur without witness testimony. This makes protection of victims essential in ending human trafficking. This along with more government involvement in labor law enforcement, we can bring justice to more victims. Government can check more into checking labor recruiting companies and potentially making more restrictive visas that allow people to cross borders more easily (CdeBaca,
According to Public Safety Canada and their April 2012 statistics, there have been 25 convictions, involving 41 victims, under human trafficking specific offences in Canada. 56 cases were currently in court during that period in time and involved approximately 136 victims (26 of these victims were below the age of 18) and at least 85 people arrested under suspicion. In these cases, less than 10% of the people involved were brought into Canada from another country, demonstrating that human trafficking is a societal problem that does not only affect third world countries. This report looks to create awareness and provide information about human trafficking and Canada’s action plan regarding human trafficking by discussing the following topics:
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